{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology","title":"Black hole physics and new states of quantum matter with John Preskill","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3747,"description":"If anyone needs no introduction on a podcast about quantum computing, it's John Preskill. His paper \"Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond,\" published in 2018, is the source of the acronym \"NISQ,\" for Noisy, Intermediate Scale Quantum\" computers -- basically everything we are going to build until we get to effective error correction. It's been cited almost 6000 times since, and remains essential reading to this day.\n\nJohn is a particle physicist and professor at Caltech whose central interests are actually cosmology, quantum matter, and quantum gravity -- he sees quantum computing as a powerful means to gain more understanding of the fundamental behavior of our universe. We discuss the information paradox of black holes, quantum error correction, some history of the field, and the work he's doing with his PhD student Robert (Hsin-Yuan) Huang using machine learning to estimate various properties of quantum systems. \nHow did you become interested in quantum information? 5:13\nThe discovery of Shor’s algorithm. 10:11\nQuantum error correction. 15:51\nBlack holes and it from qubit. 21:19\nIs there a parallel between error correcting codes and holographic projection of three dimensions? 27:27\nThe difference between theory and experiment in quantum matter. 38:56\nScientific applications of quantum computing. 55:58\nNotable links:\nThe Physics of Quantum Information, adapted from John's talk at the Solvay Conference on the Physics of Information\nQuantum Computing 40 Years Later, an update to John's NISQ paper on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the conference at Endicott, the Physics of Computation.\nLecture notes for John's class on quantum computing at Caltech, PH229\nPredicting many properties of a quantum system from very few measurements, one of the papers Robert Huang has published with John, appearing in Nature Physics\nTweetables and Quotes:\n\n“The idea that you can solve problems efficiently that you'd never be able to solve because it's a quantum world and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0bJ0_ffy0r0O2l32QT5Tn9-3l9jtqpUcMVwNZnZXwRM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZmZl/YmRlZTAxNDY3MWJk/NmI2MGVkMGMxYmFh/MTM2Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}