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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #35 The Quantum Enabler: Professor Sir Peter Knight
Description: As Quantum computing becomes a 21st century
reality, Professor Sir Peter Knight explains why controlling the register of
quantum bits that make up a quantum processor is so difficult, and explains how
the journey to quantum computing is creating new technologies that no one could
ever have predicted…….
Peter’s life in quantum physics began in the 1970s at the
University of Sussex and in this episode he takes Engineering Matters on a
journey through quantum discoveries; from understanding quantum optics and
entanglement to atomic clocks, quantum cryptography and the quantum
underground. Today he leads the UK’s pionee...