Quantum Computing Now

Ethan Hansen, Shwetha Jayaraj

From Ethan Hansen - This is a podcast all about quantum computing news, basic concepts, and what people in the field are doing. Quantum computing is serious stuff and we talk about serious science, but I try to not take myself too seriously. With that being said, quantum computing is rad as heck. Oh and here's the obligatory phrase " quantum computing podcast " so search engines pick this up.

Shoot me an email if you wanna get in touch: 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com

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June 24 · 28 min
Manufacturing Qubits with Dr. Ekta Bhatia [NY Creates]
Today's episode we hear from Ekta Bhatia PhD in condensed matter physics, a distinguished quantum research scientist at NY Creates working on quantum materials for superconducting chips in Albany, NY! Her work is on Tantalum so that is specifically what is covered which also happens to be used in CMOS already. This Episode's References: - NY Creates - https://ny-creates.org - Quantum Women's Network - https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantum-women-network/ - Ekta Bhatia's Work - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5ENxgeYAAAAJ&hl=en - Resonators - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonator Let me know in the comments what you'd like to see next!
April 14 · 5 min
Happy World Quantum Day! A recap
Happy World Quantum Day!! As I looked on the front page of google I remind myself that I host a quantum computing podcast. Hope this is better than going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, though that is worth reading through as well. :) Stay tuned for the next episode with hardware physicists next and please listen to older episodes to get caught up to speed if interested! Links mentioned: - https://ny-creates.org/quantum-technologies/ - https://qec25.yalepages.org - https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2025/ - https://columncontent.com/quantum-computing-podcasts/ Fingers crossed that Peter Shor listens to this.
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Aug 7, 2025 · 47 min
PQC & Math Culture with Krystal A. Maughan [RQS - QSim]
Before you listen! Helpful Acronyms to deal with the jargon: - PQC = Post Quantum Cryptography, area within quantum computing & cryptography where researchers are developing quantum-safe protocols resilient against quantum cryptography attacks. - LDPC Codes = Low Density Parity Check, a type of error correction method - Block Encoding = a technique used in quantum computing (see youtube link below!) In this episode: Quantum Simulation program, Cryptography, & passionate community! A conversation with the brilliant Krystal Maughan, PhD researcher at the University of Vermont doing innovative work on her research area of Post-Quantum Cryptography while we were attending the 3-day QSim RQS Summer School 2025! We talk on a range of topics observed in the quantum industry & research field and she provides a mathematician's perspective at Madison Square Park on a beautiful summer day right before her flight. Enjoy this refreshing & insightful discussion! Referenced Links from the talk: - Her recent paper on "Cycles & cuts in supersingular I-isogeny graphs": https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00638 - Her Website: ⁠https://kammitama5.github.io/about/ ⁠ - Krystal Maughan's Research Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dhxYKqAAAAAJ&hl=en - Bit Player documentary trailer: https://vimeo.com/323615460 - Nathan Weibe, University of Toronto Youtube Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpZLyXsdJnA - QSim 2025 Speakers: https://qsimconference.org/summer-school/
Apr 30, 2025 · 32 min
"Choose Your Own Adventure" with Amir Karamlou (Google QuantumAI)
Happy *belated World Quantum Day (Week/Month/Year). This episode is about the journey that one can take in navigating and getting started in the quantum technology space. This was recorded live at the NYU Abhu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good. This episode I talk to Google QuantumAI's esteemed research scientist who was part of the Willow team - Amir Karamlou. We'll hear about Amir's journey and how hackathons can change the future of the quantum space. Links: Hackathon for Social Good, NYU Abhu Dhabi - https://hackathon.nyuad.nyu.edu
Mar 9, 2025 · 3 min
For the Love of Quantum
The return of the QCN podcast!! This episode was meant to release on February 14th! Ethan's mic (quite literally) has been passed on to me, Shway, and I'll be the new host. I hope I do nearly as great of a job communicating the journey of learning quantum computing as he did... Thank you my friend. (Also congratulations to Ethan & his fiancée!!!!!) --- I procrastinated on posting this. Expect more episodes on quantum computing technologies, with hopefully less procrastination. And as always, stay curious!
Jan 1, 2024 · 16 min
A Brief Inquiry Into the Nature of Giving Up
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Jul 14, 2023 · 51 min
Reprogrammable Quantum Secure Hardware with Mamta Gupta - Episode 47
We've heard on the show before about software needed to secure devices in a post-quantum world, but what about the hardware? Mamta Gupta from Lattice Semiconductor is here to tell us all about that! A note: at one point, Mamta talks about massive parallelism being the reason for quantum computing's speedup. As far as I can tell, it's not. I didn't think during the podcast was the best time to bring it up, but if you want to learn more, I recommend looking at the episode I did with Scott Aaronson and also the episode with Jon Skerrett CNSA 2.0: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Sep/07/2003071834/-1/-1/0/CSA_CNSA_2.0_ALGORITHMS_.PDF Isara timeline: https://www.isara.com/blog-posts/quantum-computing-urgency-and-timeline.html Cryptographic Agility with Mike Brown – Episode 37: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Cryptographic-Agility-with-Mike-Brown--Episode-37-e133ela https://www.latticesemi.com/ Quantum Open Source Foundation: https://qosf.org/ QOSF showcase: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/QOSF-Showcase--Episode-28-Hybrid-eqir0q Interview with Michal Stechly (founder of QOSF): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Micha-Stchy-and-QOSF--Episode-21-Hybrid-ej5e2u Lattice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lattice-semiconductor Lattice twitter: http://www.twitter.com/latticesemi Lattice Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/latticesemi https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
S4 · E1
Jun 13, 2023 · 23 min
Hello (again) World! - Episode 46
Guess who's back? Back again? Ethan's back! Tell a friend! My research on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04093 https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
Aug 27, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
Womanium Quantum Panel
Original Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjIkM6Io6pU Womanium Quantum website: https://www.womanium.org/Quantum/Computing
May 28, 2022 · 2 min
Summer Update 2022
What's going on with this podcast? Is it dead? Is Ethan dead? Find out all that and more on this exciting installment of Quantum! Computing! Now! QC Zero to Hero repo: https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero The Quantum Pod: https://anchor.fm/thequantumpod Noisy Intermediate Scale Podcast: https://www.mustythoughts.com/podcast.html https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
Feb 4, 2022 · 10 min
QC Zero to Hero Day 035
Links to resources used today: https://quantum.country/qcvc https://quantum.country/qm https://app.element.io/?pk_vid=d4b162e0e6c511851631808451ab93fb#/room/#quantum_computing:matrix.org Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
Jan 28, 2022 · 52 min
QC Zero to Hero Day 028
Links to resources used today: https://github.com/microsoft/QuantumKatas/tree/main/tutorials/LinearAlgebra Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
Jan 27, 2022 · 1 hr
QC Zero to Hero Day 027
Links to resources used today: https://github.com/microsoft/QuantumKatas/tree/main/tutorials/ComplexArithmetic Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
Jan 24, 2022 · 35 min
QC Zero to Hero Day 023
Links to resources used today: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/matrix-multiplication https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/3d-transformations https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/determinant https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/inverse-matrices Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
Jan 23, 2022 · 47 min
QC Zero to Hero Day 022
For some reason the audio was all weird for this recording and the recording cut off at the end before I finished up. That's okay though, I just went through the exercises for that video by myself and the summary I put down was "see day 14" because it was basically the same content Links to resources used today: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/eola-preview https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/vectors https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/span https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/linear-transformations Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
Jan 13, 2022 · 17 min
QC Zero to Hero Day 014
Links to resources used today: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/matrix-transformations/linear-transformations/a/visualizing-linear-transformations?modal=1 https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/matrix-transformations/linear-transformations/a/practice-associating-matrices-with-transformations?modal=1 Also check out the Riemann zeta function content from 3B1B: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/zeta Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
S3 · E14
Jan 9, 2022 · 32 min
Superconducting Qubits with Jan Goetz – Episode 45
In which Jan Goetz teaches me about how superconducting quantum computers work. IQM website: https://www.meetiqm.com/ Opensource software for designing superconducting circuits: https://github.com/iqm-finland/KQCircuits IQM at APS March Meeting: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR21/Session/L67.1 Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
Jan 2, 2022 · 1 hr
QC Zero to Hero Day 003-005
Links to resources used today: https://www.learnpython.org/en/Hello%2C_World%21 https://www.learnpython.org/en/Variables_and_Types https://www.learnpython.org/en/Lists https://www.learnpython.org/en/Dictionaries https://www.learnpython.org/en/Basic_Operators https://www.learnpython.org/en/Conditions https://www.learnpython.org/en/Loops https://www.learnpython.org/en/Functions https://www.learnpython.org/en/Classes_and_Objects https://www.learnpython.org/en/Modules_and_Packages Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
Jan 1, 2022 · 25 min
QC Zero to Hero Day 001 & 002
If you're listening on the podcast version, so you don't waste your time I recommend using a podcatcher that can automatically skip silence like AntennaPod: https://antennapod.org/ (that's what I use!) Links to resources used today: https://jupyter.org/install https://www.codecademy.com/article/how-to-use-jupyter-notebooks Links for QC Zero to Hero: Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
S3 · E13
Dec 30, 2021 · 36 min
Humanizing Quantum Computing with whurley – Episode 44
In which whurley and I talk about the challenges and promises involved in bringing quantum computing to a wider audience Jon Skerrett episode: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Fact-vs-Fiction-Quantum-Edition-with-Jon-Skerrett--Episode-38-e13u6fv whurley’s FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/whurley whurley’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/whurley whurley’s GitHub: https://github.com/whurley Strangeworks website: https://strangeworks.com/ IBM + Strangeworks announcement: https://strangeworks.com/newsroom/strangeworks-and-ibm-announce-integration-of-ibm-quantum-cloud-services-into-the-strangeworks-ecosystem QC Zero to Hero thread: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1318413663568138256?referrer=1ethanhansen Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B

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