{"podcast":{"title":"Rays and Waves","slug":"rays-and-waves-7177942","podcast_index_feed_id":7177942,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc7e32e8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raysandwaves","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42261290/42261290-1729282406342-e61660056e2f4.jpg","author":"Rays and Waves","episode_count":16,"summary":"Rays and Waves, a passion project of two optical engineers, Daniel and Steve, who moonlight as podcast hosts. Join them as they explore the beautiful world of optics and photonics. The topics will span across the whole optical universe, demonstrating the versatile applications of optical engineering and sometime feature prominent characters from the community. Ready to dive into the captivating world of photonics?","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942"},"episode":{"title":"Optical Quantum Computers - Ep 5 - Rays and Waves","slug":"optical-quantum-computers-ep-5-rays-and-waves","published_at":"2025-05-06T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942/optical-quantum-computers-ep-5-rays-and-waves","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raysandwaves/episodes/Optical-Quantum-Computers---Ep-5---Rays-and-Waves-e32e74m","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc7e32e8/podcast/play/102226518/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-4-5%2Ff0558e8e-6437-ea1d-ccb7-059e2a96108b.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak about Linear Optical Quantum Computers. There has been lots of talk about quantum computers in the science media lately. Both companies and academic labs are hard at work to build the sought-after fault-tolerant quantum computer. As it turns out, one approach to building quantum computers is with optics. Join us as we explore the pros and cons with this light-based approach to quantum computers. If you like the show, tell your friends and colleagues about it! And like, subscribe, and all that! If you want to get in touch, shoot us an email on rays.and.waves.podcast@gmail.com Good resources to learn more: - Original KLM paper: Knill, Emanuel, Raymond Laflamme, and Gerald J. Milburn. "A scheme for efficient quantum computation with linear optics." nature 409.6816 (2001): 46-52. - Good review: Slussarenko, Sergei, and Geoff J. Pryde. "Photonic quantum information processing: A concise review." Applied physics reviews 6.4 (2019). - Lecture notes: Myers, C. R., and R. Laflamme. "Linear optics quantum computation: an overview." Quantum Computers, Algorithms and Chaos (2006): 45-93. Game: Quantum Odyssey (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2802710/Quantum_Odyssey/) Intro music is Good Vibe by Twisterium. Thanks for making sweet music!","meta_description":"In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak about Linear Optical Quantum Computers. There has been lots of talk about quantum computers in the science medi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1811,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rays-and-waves-7177942/episodes/optical-quantum-computers-ep-5-rays-and-waves/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942/optical-quantum-computers-ep-5-rays-and-waves.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}