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The New Quantum Era

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The New Quantum Era Podcast features interviews with researchers. https://newquantumera.com/

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · 3d ago

A single laptop may contain hundreds of cryptographic components — and most enterprises haven't inventoried even a fraction of them. Richard Entrup of KPMG makes the case that the migration problem is already urgent, before anyone knows when Q-Day arrives. The supply chain angle alone is sobering.

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 board members can act on — and in this…

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · last wk.

HRL's 2026 QPU paper isn't a fidelity story — it's a systems story. The qubit chip, the cryo-CMOS controller at 4 K, and a new superconducting ribbon cable are all one integrated unit. That reframe is central to understanding what IBM actually acquired.

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.

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · 2w ago

KPMG is a named co-author on a peer-reviewed quantum ML paper — and their lead quantum researcher says the real post-quantum cryptography problem isn't cryptographic. It's that enterprises don't know where their data flows.

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 enterprise advisory is being reshaped by two…

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · 3w ago

Oratomic skipped the intermediate product entirely — straight to fault tolerance, 20,000 qubits, $300M Series A. Barak Bussel of 7i Capital explains why that bet makes sense, how resource estimates for Shor's algorithm have compressed from 20 million physical qubits to roughly 500,000, and what a…

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 Center for Quantum Science and Engineering.

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · last mo.

A significant chunk of quantum components are single-sourced and imported — and that quiet fragility is already slowing product delivery at real companies. Kate Timmerman explains what the $55M Bloch Tech Hub award actually targets, and why small Midwest manufacturers are the unlikely next link in…

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, not Silicon Valley, may become the industrial…

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · last mo.

About 40% of full-time quantum open-source contributors are unpaid. Ben Castanon, Unitary Foundation's first CEO, makes the case that this is a structural problem — not a motivation problem — and explains what a Linux-style substrate for quantum would actually require.

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 open-source software, why nearly 40% of…

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · 2mo ago

Google's 2019 quantum supremacy experiment turned out to be a starting line, not a finish line. For episode 100, Sebastian reflects on what 99 conversations — from Josephson junctions to fault tolerance to regional ecosystems — actually taught him about where this field stands.

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 Chicago for a live audience recording at the firm.

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · 2mo ago

Trapped-ion engineers have been squeezing designs through EM solvers built for radar, not for confining single atoms. Daniel Faircloth left hardware to fix that. The result: nanometer ion-height accuracy and 5× memory reduction — purpose-built for X-junctions and shuttling voltage precision.

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 forced to bend legacy electromagnetic solvers…

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · 2mo ago

Single electrons floating nanometers above superfluid helium, controlled via the same cavity-QED toolkit as superconducting qubits — that's EeroQ's bet. Their new Nature Physics paper just demonstrated strong coupling between a microwave photon and one of those electrons.

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?

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · 2mo ago

Algorithmiq simulated excited-state dynamics of a Phase II clinical trial photosensitizer — not hydrogen, a real cancer drug — on up to 100 qubits, and won the $2M Wellcome Leap Q4Bio prize for it.

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 unpack the science behind the company's…

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The New Quantum Era@newquantumera.com · 3mo ago

The standard fault tolerance theorem quietly assumes a classical answer comes out the other side. Matthias Christandl joins me on The New Quantum Era podcast to discuss what's possible when you challenge that assumption. Listen to our new episode www.newquantumera.com/podcast/faul...

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...

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