DECODE QUANTUM

DECODE QUANTUM

DECODE QUANTUM is a show hosted by Fanny Bouton, Olivier Ezratty. We are hearing from key players in quantum technology in order to better understand the issues and impacts on society. DECODE QUANTUM est une émission animée par Fanny Bouton, Olivier Ezratty. Nous recevons les acteurs clés du quantique afin de mieux en comprendre les enjeux et impacts sur la société.

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April 28, 2025 62 mins

Welcome to the 83rd episode of Decode Quantum, the quantum podcast where we like to get in depth in quantum science and technology, this time with Wilhelm Kaenders, the president and CTO of Toptica.

 

Wilhelm Kaenders is the co-founder of Toptica, because he had one other co-founder. He is now its president and CTO. The company is a worldwide leader in lasers used in mostly the academic world, but also in some parts of the i...

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Welcome to the 82th episode of Decode Quantum, this time, with Chris Ballance, the cofounder and CEO of Oxford Ionics.

 

Chris Ballance is the cofounder and CEO of Oxford Ionics since its inception in 2019. His cofounder is Tom Harty who is the company’s CTO. Before that, he was a senior researcher at Oxford University, where he did his PhD between 2010 and 2015.

 

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Welcome to this 81st episode of Decode Quantum, or interviews around the world about quantum. Fanny Bouton andOlivier Ezratty were with Mathieu Munsch from QNAMI, the CEO.

 

Mathieu Munsch is the CEO and co-founder of QNAMI, a Swiss startup located in Basel, specializing in NV-center quantum sensors. Born in France, he was first trained in optics semiconductors and spintronics before turning to research in quantum physics. A...

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Welcome to the 80th episode of the Decode Quantum podcast series. We are this time with Chris Langer from Quantinuum. This is one of the leading companies using trapped ions for the creation of quantum computers.

 

Our guest Chris Langer is a Fellow at Quantinuum. He is their chair of the Technical Board and an advisor to the President and COO. Chris has a PhD in physics obtained in 2006 at the University of Colorado on trap...

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Welcome to the 79th episode of “Decode Quantum”. We continue our “international episodes”, this times with the cofounders of the US startup EeroQ, Nick Farina and Johannes Pollanen, which aims to create qubits with electron spins, electrons being shielded from controlling electronic circuits by a layer of superfluid helium. This is the only company doing this.

 

Nick Farina is the CEO and co-founder of EeroQ in 2017. Beforeh...

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Welcome to the 78th episode of Decode Quantum, where we continue to travel around the world. We are now in the UK with Sebastian Weidt, the founder and CEO of Universal Quantum, a startup creating scalable trapped-ions quantum computers.

 

Sebastian Weidt is the CEO and co-founder of Universal Quantum since 2019, when the company was created. He is also a professor of quantum computing and entrepreneurship at the University ...

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Welcome to the 77th episode of “Decode Quantum”. We continue our “international episodes”, this times with the cofounders of the US startup SEEQC,John Levy (CEO) and Oleg Mukhanov (CTO), who are creating superconducting control electronic circuits for solid state qubits. They are the only company in that field. We had a chance to meet our two guests in Elmsford in February this year and visit their lab and cleanroom.

 

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Welcome to the 76th episode of Decode Quantum. In our series of episodes recorded in Lindau where dozens of physics Nobel laureates meet with young scientists, we picked a few of them who are specialized in the broad field of quantum computing to head their thoughts about it, Caroline Tornow, Francesca Pietracaprina, Yaroslav Herasymenko and Adam Shaw.

 

This podcast was recorded on July 1st, 2024, in Lindau, Germany during ...

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Welcome to the 75th episode of the Decode Quantum podcast. In our series of episodes recorded in Lindau where dozens of physics Nobel laureates met with young scientists, we had a chance to meet Bill Phillips, who is one of them, after the first episode with David Wineland.

This podcast was recorded on July 1st, 2024, in Lindau, Germany during the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2024.

Bill Phillips is American physicist f...

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Welcome to the 75th episode of the Decode Quantum podcast. In our series of three episodes recorded in Lindau where dozens of physics Nobel laureates were gathered with young scientists, we had a chance to meet David Wineland.

 

This podcast was recorded on July 1st, 2024, in Lindau, Germany during the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

David Wineland is an American physicist currently at the University of Oregon who is spec...

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Nous voici dans le 73e épisode des entretiens Decode Quantum, toujours avec Fanny Bouton et moi-même. Nous recevons aujourd’hui Jean Dalibard, un (grand) physicien français spécialiste d'optique quantique et du contrôle des atomes.

Jean Dalibard est un physicien français spécialisé en mécanique quantique, professeur au Collège de France et qui a été professeur à l'École polytechnique pendant 25 ans, chercheur au LKB...
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Welcome to the 71th episode of Decode Quantum, and a new one in English after Jay Gambetta from IBM. This time, Fanny Bouton and Olivier Ezratty host Jan Goetz, the CEO of IQM, the famous Finish superconducting qubits startup.Jan Goetz is the CEO and cofounder of IQM which was launched in 2019. Before that, he got his PhD at TUM (Technical University of Munich) in 2016. He conducted his work as a researcher at Walther-Meis...
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Ségolène Olivier dirige le programme de photonique quantique au CEA-Leti pour des applications en communications quantiques et en calcul quantique. Elle a obtenu son doctorat en 2002 à l'Université de Paris dans le domaine de l'optoélectronique et a été embauchée au CEA-Leti en 2003 en tant que post-doc puis en 2005 comme ingénieure de recherche et développement en processus et dispositifs. Elle a développé son expertise d...
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Welcome to the 71th episode of Decode Quantum, and a new one in English after Jay Gambetta from IBM. This time, Fanny Bouton and Olivier Ezratty host Jan Goetz, the CEO of IQM, the famous Finish superconducting qubits startup.

Jan Goetz is the CEO and cofounder of IQM which was launched in 2019. Before that, he got his PhD at TUM (Technical University of Munich) in 2016. He conducted his work as a researcher at Walt...
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Dans le 70e épisode des entretiens Decode Quantum, Fanny Bouton et Olivier Ezratty sont avec Valentin Savin du CEA-Leti, pour parler du sujet de la correction d’erreurs.Valentin Savin a un master en mathématiques de l’ENS Lyon et de l’Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, puis a réalisé une thèse de doctorat dans cette même université en 2001.

Entre 2002 et 2004, il était post-doc à l’Institut de Mathématiques de l...
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In their third Decode Quantum episode in English after Simone Severini from AWS and Tommaso Calarco from Julich, Fanny Bouton and Olivier Ezratty are with Jay Gambetta from IBM. And he welcomed them since they recorded this episode near his office at IBM Yorktown Heights Research lab in New York state. This is the 68th episode of Decode Quantum.

Jay Gambetta is a quantum physicist. Born in Australia, he did his thes...
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Dans ce 67ème épisode de Decode Quantum, Fanny Bouton et Olivier Ezratty accueillent Grégoire Ribordy qui dirige la société IDQ.Grégoire Ribordy est cofondateur et PDG d’IDQ, ou ID quantique, l’une des sociétés les plus anciennes des technologies quantiques avec D-Wave, créée en 2001. Avant cette création, il était chercheur dans le Groupe de Physique Appliquée de l'Université de Genève entre 1997 et 2001 où il a développé...
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Dans ce 66ème épisode de Decode Quantum, Olivier Ezratty accueille Tommaso Calarco du Forschungszentrum Jülich en Allemagne. C'est le deuxième épisode de Decode Quantum en anglais après celui avec Simone Severini d'AWS, publié en mai 2023.Tommaso Calarco est un véritable Européen à bien des égards. Né en Italie, il a fait ses études dans ce pays, d'abord avec une maîtrise en musique. Il s'est ensuite tourné vers la science...
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Dans ce 65e épisode des entretiens Decode Quantum, Fanny Bouton et Olivier Ezratty reçoivent Audrey Cottet et Takis Kontos qui sont tous deux directeurs de recherche au CNRS, officiant au LPENS de l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris. Il y évoquent l'histoire des qubits supraconducteurs, les qubits à base de nanotubes de carbone ainsi que la détection de matière noire.
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Pascal Maillot est le chef d’unité adjoint en charge des technologies quantiques et du HPC de la DG Connect à la Commission Européenne. Il y dirige une équipe de spécialistes des technologies quantiques et supervise la stratégie quantique en Europe, ainsi que le fameux programme Quantum Flagship lancé en 2018.

Il doit durer 10 ans en tout avec un budget prévisionnel d’un milliard d’Euros. Les initiatives dans le qua...
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