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The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology

Sebastian Hassinger

Your host, Sebastian Hassinger, interviews brilliant research scientists, software developers, engineers and others actively exploring the possibilities of our new quantum era. We will cover topics in quantum computing, networking and sensing, focusing on hardware, algorithms and general theory. The show aims for accessibility - Sebastian is not a physicist - and we'll try to provide context for the terminology and glimpses at the fascinating history of this new field as it evolves in real time.

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#110
Monday · 49 min
Classical Reversible Computing on Quantum Dots with Daniel Loss
What if the same hardware being built for quantum computers could also solve one of classical computing's most urgent problems — runaway energy consumption? In this episode, Sebastian talks with Daniel Loss, the theoretical physicist who co-proposed the s
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#109
September 7 · 40 min
Quantum-Inspired AI and Tensor Network Compression with Román Orús
Tensor networks were invented to study quantum entanglement in condensed matter physics — so how did they end up compressing billion-parameter language models and running inside a live LLM on an IBM quantum processor? Román Orús, co-founder and Chief Scie
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#108
August 31 · 46 min
Quantum Workforce Intelligence from qubitsok.com with Piotr Lewandowski
Who is actually doing quantum computing research, where are they, and what does the industry really need — not according to press releases, but according to the data? Piotr Lewandowski built qubitsok.com to answer exactly those questions, constructing wha
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#107
August 24 · 35 min
Quantum Risk, Readiness, and the Enterprise Boardroom with Richard Entrup
Most quantum computing conversations start in the lab. Richard Entrup's start in the boardroom. As Managing Director of Emerging Solutions at KPMG US, he's the person translating quantum risk and quantum opportunity into language that CFOs, CISOs, and boa
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#106
August 17 · 44 min
Silicon Spin Qubits and the IBM–HRL Acquisition with Thaddeus D. Ladd
IBM's pending acquisition of HRL Laboratories is the biggest structural move in quantum hardware in years — but the announcement names sensing, networking, cryogenics, control electronics, and packaging alongside silicon spin qubits. Thaddeus D. Ladd, Chi
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#105
August 10 · 44 min
Quantum in the Big Four with Aaron Kemp
What does it mean when a Big Four professional services firm becomes a named co-author on a peer-reviewed quantum machine learning paper? Aaron Kemp, KPMG's Senior Director of Quantum Research and Enterprise Innovation, joins Sebastian to unpack how enter
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#104
August 3 · 40 min
Investing in the Quantum Frontier and the Road to Fault Tolerance with Barak Bussel
What does it take to invest in a quantum hardware company that has deliberately chosen not to pursue an intermediate product? Sebastian is joined by Barak Bussel – physicist, entrepreneur-turned-VC, co-founder of 7i Capital, and Board Chair of UCLA’s Cent
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#103
July 27 · 41 min
Building the U.S. Quantum Supply Chain with Kate Timmerman
Days after the CQE-led Bloch Quantum Tech Hub secured $55 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to build a domestic quantum supply chain, Kate Timmerman joins Sebastian to explain what that money actually does — and why the Midwest, no
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#102
July 20 · 43 min
The Open Source Substrate for Quantum with Ben Castanon
What does it take to build durable open-source infrastructure for a field that hasn't yet delivered on its biggest promises? Ben Castanon, the first-ever CEO of Unitary Foundation, joins Sebastian to talk about the structural funding gap facing quantum op
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#101
July 13 · 49 min
Quantum Cameras and Sub-Diffraction Imaging with Johannes Galatsanos
What if a camera could skip the JPEG entirely and process photons at the speed of light, extracting information that conventional optics leave on the table? Diffraqtion co-founder and CEO Johannes Galatsanos joins Sebastian to explain how a quantum-inspir
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#100
July 6 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 100: Live at Barnes & Thornburg — Reflections on the First 100 Episodes
For the 100th episode of The New Quantum Era, the microphone turns around. Bob Karr — partner at Barnes & Thornburg, co-chair of the firm's Quantum Technology Industry Group, and lead architect of the *Quantum Law Navigator* — invited Sebastian to Chi
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#99
June 29 · 38 min
Quantum EDA for Ion Trap Design with Daniel Faircloth
What if the bottleneck in scaling trapped-ion quantum computers isn't the qubits or the lasers, but the design software underneath them? Daniel Faircloth, PhD, co-founder and CTO of Nullspace, joins Sebastian to explain why ion trap engineers have been fo
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#98
June 22 · 41 min
Electrons on Superfluid Helium with Nick Farina
What if the path to a million-qubit processor doesn't run through silicon defects or massive wire bundles, but through single electrons floating a few nanometers above a film of superfluid helium? Nick Farina, co-founder and CEO of EeroQ, joins Sebastian
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#97
June 15 · 45 min
Quantum Drug Discovery and the Path to Advantage with Sabrina Maniscalco
What does it actually take to run a quantum-classical workflow on a real cancer drug — not hydrogen, not a toy molecule, but a photosensitizer already in Phase II clinical trials? Sabrina Maniscalco, CEO and co-founder of Algorithmiq, joins Sebastian to u
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#96
June 8 · 46 min
Funding the Quantum Middle: Series A/B Capital with Kris Naudts and Zeynep Koruturk of Firgun Ventures
Quantum computing has plenty of seed-stage capital and a handful of growth-stage giants — but the Series A and B rounds in between are where promising companies stall. In this episode, Sebastian sits down with Kris Naudts and Zeynep Koruturk, co-founders
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#95
June 1 · 54 min
Quantum Book Launch with Yuval Boger
Yuval Boger — Chief Commercial Officer of QuEra Computing and one of quantum's most prolific podcasters — joins Sebastian for a crossover episode that doubles as a working session between two people trying to make quantum computing comprehensible. They co
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#94
May 25 · 38 min
Fault Tolerance for Quantum Inputs and Outputs with Matthias Christandl
What happens to fault tolerance when a quantum computer's job is not to spit out a classical answer, but to produce a quantum state that gets sent somewhere else — to another core, another machine, or across a network? Mathias Christandl, professor at the
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#93
May 18 · 42 min
Philosophy of Physics Meets Quantum Engineering with Elise Crull
What does philosophy of science actually *do* for quantum technology at the moment quantum mechanics is being asked to deliver? Elise Crull — historian, philosopher of physics, and 2025 APS Fellow — joins Sebastian to talk about how interpretive choices a
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#92
May 11 · 37 min
The Quantum Control Stack with Niels Bultink
Every quantum computer — superconducting, spin, trapped ion, or neutral atom — depends on a layer most people never see: the precisely timed electronics that play qubits like a microwave-frequency piano and read the answers back. Niels Bultink, co-founder
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#91
May 4 · 38 min
Hardware-Faithful Digital Twins for Quantum Computing with Izhar Medalsy
Quantum hardware iteration is gated by the simple fact that real QPUs are expensive, scarce, and noisy in ways that generic simulators don't capture. In this episode, Izhar Medalsy, co-founder and CEO of Quantum Elements, explains why the industry is stil
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