What is quantum mechanics? What can quantum computers do that classical computers can’t? Has Google achieved quantum supremacy? Robert J. Marks discusses the weird world of quantum mechanics with Dr. Enrique Blair.

Show Notes

• 00:54 | Introducing Dr. Enrique Blair, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Baylor University
• 03:08 | The history of quantum mechanics
• 13:16 | Quantum superposition
• 21:50 | Schrödinger’s cat
• 27:45 | Why didn’t Einstein like quantum mechanics?
• 28:51 | Quantum entanglement
• 32:58 | Applications of quantum mechanics
• 34:53 | Quantum dots
• 37:31 | Quantum computing
• 43:48 | The use of quantum computers
• 47:55 | Quantum supremacy
• 55:32 | Quantum communication
• 58:47 | The future of quantum computing

Additional Resources

• Enrique Blair’s website
• Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics at Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Young’s double-slit experiment at Encyclopædia Britannica
• Planck’s explanation of black-body radiation at Encyclopædia Britannica
• Quantum superposition at Wikipedia
• Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 — Werner Heisenberg
• Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 — Erwin Schrödinger
• Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Schrödinger’s cat at Wikipedia
• Quantum entanglement at Wikipedia
• Quantum bit (qubit) at Wikipedia
• Quantum dots at Wikipedia
• Shor’s algorithm at Wikipedia
• RSA at Wikipedia
• Grover’s algorithm at Wikipedia
• Quantum supremacy at Wikipedia
• IBM on Google’s claim of quantum supremacy
• Quantum communication at MIT Technology Review
• Adiabatic quantum computation at Wikipedia