EP10 - Quantum Computing and Memory. With Dr. Alessandro Berti

On other platforms: Web, Apple Podcast, YouTube. How cool is Quantum Computing? In this episode I had the pleasure to talk about this topic (giving me a lot of Sci-Fi vibes) with Alessandro Berti, postdoc at University of Pisa. Quantum Computing means a computer (and its software) running on so called Quantum Bits (a.k.a. Qubits) that can be both 0 and 1 at the same time. That's called superposition, and quantum computers can speed up computations A LOT leveraging this very weird property. New algorithms for this quantum computers need to be studied, but there is an aspect that should be taken into account: what about memory? OK, you can have an algorithm that is super super fast to run on those quantum CPUs, but if it takes 10 minutes to load the data for the computation we are not really taking advantage of this new fancy computers. That's the focus of the research that Alessandro is doing: how can we design Quantum Random Access Memories for quantum computers? I don't want to make…