Episode
Quantum EDA for Ion Trap Design with Daniel Faircloth
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- Jun 29, 2026
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- 2322
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Summary
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 around problems they were never built for — and what changes when you build a simulator from scratch for the physics of confining single atoms. It's a conversation about the quiet emergence of a quantum EDA layer, the engineering work that turns hardware roadmaps into reality, and why nanometer-precise ion height predictions are harder than they sound.