From Dr Ben Miles.

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PsiQuantum are world leaders in the race to utility-scale quantum computing, but they have been shrouded in mystery for over a decade…until now.

Thanks to some good fortune and incredible generosity from the PsiQuantum team I was able to get behind the scenes and see what makes their ground-breaking quantum computer ‘click’.

You can see their public paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08820-7

0:00 Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Quantum Computer
1:38 A Quantum Computer that runs on Light
6:03 How to Create a Single Photon
9:00 How to Build a Quantum Clock
10:48 Ad Read
11:54 Detecting Single Photons
15:00 Creating the Perfect Material
18:19 How to do math with light
21:45 How to Build a Scalable Quantum Computer
24:27 Converting Space to Time
27:25 The First Photonic Quantum Computer Demonstrator

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