What a thousand logical qubits could actually do

You know, we pursue the PhD in quantum because of these reasons. We did the postdoc because of these reasons. We care about the technology because of these reasons. What happened? You know, we just kind of got caught along in the AI wave. And it's like, no, we actually want to build this thing out. We want to have an impact on the world. And that was really it. was very much. And I think it really was that I just kept asking myself that question every day, getting up, working on fine and doing tickets. was the same. It's like, but we could also be doing and then once you're always asking, but we could always like just do it. Right. Exactly. Exactly. And then it was just never looked back from then on.

going to be dealing with tickets and accepting the pain we could be doing the thing we really want to do I guess. Awesome. Again, thank you, Etan, for kind of clarifying that. Yeah, it really speaks to your drive. I know that's something I've spoken about already, but yeah, it's incredibly impressive. We did have one potentially kind of researchy question, which is probably deeper than my understanding goes in this, but it was from someone who unfortunately couldn't attend. But the question was, if I were to ⁓ hand you a thousand error corrected qubits now,

Yeah, go for it.

what would you do with it, what would be the impact, and what would you disrupt? So I'll throw that one over to you to maybe blow all our minds.

Yeah, I think. to finally tune the terminology that we should say maybe not necessarily error corrected, but ⁓ logical qubits. This is, I love this question because most people don't have a clue and you know understandably so. The algorithms still need to be built. There's only a handful of algorithms that exist that we know will be of some use. The most obvious one as well, you can start for you know. hacking nation states secrets and hard drives if you believe those states to be a threat to national security. That's the most obvious case you can do with logical qubits. Two, you can start looking at, I mean, you can already actually before that number of qubits, you can start looking at ground state energy of small molecules using things like. solvers and things like that. And there are companies such as phase craft based in the UK where they literally have a list of molecules you can simulate and the number of physical qubits required. ⁓ But that's not necessarily going to tell you that that molecule cure cancer. That's what I want to be able to do is 1000, 2000, 10,000 logical qubits. How I do that, we don't know yet. not going to lie to you, but we know theoretically it's possible because for the first time, your unit of information you are using to do computation replicates the physical system you are trying to simulate. You are trying to simulate an atom, an electron, its interactions with other atoms and electrons, i.e. an antigen and an antibody. What best to use that other than other atoms and electrons that you can program and manipulate such as a quantum computer.