The Genius of Computing with Light

Check out shortform and get a FREE trial and $50 OFF the annual plan! at https://www.shortform.com/DrBen PsiQuantum are world leaders in the race to utility-scale quantum computing, but they have been shrouded in mystery for over a decade…until now. Thanks to some good fortune and incredible generosity from the PsiQuantum team I was able to get behind the scenes and see what makes their ground-breaking quantum computer ‘click’. You can see their public paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08820-7 0:00 Silicon Valley's Most Secretive Quantum Computer 1:38 A Quantum Computer that runs on Light 6:03 How to Create a Single Photon 9:00 How to Build a Quantum Clock 10:48 Ad Read 11:54 Detecting Single Photons 15:00 Creating the Perfect Material 18:19 How to do math with light 21:45 How to Build a Scalable Quantum Computer 24:27 Converting Space to Time 27:25 The First Photonic Quantum Computer Demonstrator PATREON:👨‍🔬 🚀 http://patreon.com/DrBenMiles NEWSLETTER: ✍️👨‍💻 https://drbenmiles.substack.com/ MERCH:🤘👨‍🔬 https://www.rockstarscientist.org/ 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/drbenmiles 📸 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/drbenmiles 📲TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drbenmiles MY GEAR 📷 Sony A7III https://amzn.to/3OWrmGd 🔎 Sigma 402965 16 mm F1.4 https://amzn.to/49BNJdq 🎤 Shure SM7B https://youtu.be/lVTS_J7Xmxs 🎤 Zoom H4n Pro https://amzn.to/3OXsklB 🎤 Sennheiser AVX https://amzn.to/4geWnBi