In this video, Dr. Chetan Nayak, Distinguished Engineer of Quantum at Microsoft, dives into Microsoft’s recent work on topological quantum computing.
Dr. Chetan Nayak, Distinguished Engineer of Quantum at Microsoft, dives into Microsoft’s recent work on topological quantum computing. explains how Microsoft was able to experimentally identify topological superconductivity in a nanowire using the topological gap protocol. While engineering challenges remain, Microsoft’s recent breakthroughs prove out a fundamental building block for our approach to a scaled quantum computer.
About the speaker
Chetan Nayak | Technical Fellow and VP of Quantum Hardware and Systems Engineering, Microsoft
Dr. Nayak is a pioneer of the study of quantum matter, including topological and non-equilibrium phases. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a PhD in physics from Princeton. He was an assistant, associate, and full professor at UCLA, a visiting professor at Nihon University in Tokyo, and is a professor of physics at UCSB. Chetan was a trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics and an editor of Annals of Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has published more than 150 refereed articles with more than 20,000 citations and has been granted more than 20 patents. Chetan Nayak | Technical Fellow and VP of Quantum Hardware and Systems Engineering, Microsoft.
