Quantum Computing: Foundational Concepts with Nick Bronn

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The New Quantum Era Podcast hosted by Kevin Rowney and Sebastian Hassinger. The quantum computing arena has so many interesting aspects with several new computing models with a huge amount of potential and this podcast is dedicated to asking and answering deep science questions. Each episode will feature an interview with people who are actively driving the domain forward, such as scientists, and researchers, from industrial or academic backgrounds. Today, they are welcoming Nick Bronn, a Research Staff Member in the Experimental Quantum Computing group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Nick, Sebastian, and Kevin are discussing in this episode some foundational concepts such as the five criteria for quantum computing, as well as cutting-edge developments arising nowadays. Nick also explains in detail the function of transmon qubits.