What does it actually take to evaluate a quantum startup when the founders are showing you an optical table instead of a product? Marie Lepske, General Partner at Constructor Capital, has been making early-stage bets on quantum and deep-tech science founders for nearly a decade — and she's one of…

What if the mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics — the infinite continuum of Hilbert space — is subtly wrong, and quantum computers are about to prove it? Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus at Oxford and the physicist who revolutionized weather forecasting with ensemble…

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 spin-qubit quantum computer nearly thirty…

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?

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 what may be the most granular open-access…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

What if a camera could skip the JPEG entirely and process photons at the speed of light? Johannes Galatsanos explains quantum-inspired imaging, sub-diffraction resolution, and photonic neural networks.

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.

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…

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?

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…

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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What does it take to build the world's largest dedicated quantum technology park — on the site of a former steel mill? Harley Johnson is leading that effort, and the answer involves equal parts materi...

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