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Welcome to this 81st episode of the Decode Quantum podcast series, traveling around the world on quantum science and technologies, Fanny Bouton and myself were with Mathieu Munsch, the CEO from QNAMI.
Mathieu Munsch is the CEO and co-founder of QNAMI, a Swiss startup located in Basel, specializing in NV-center quantum sensors. Born in France, he was first trained in optics semiconductors and spintronics before turning to research in quantum physics. After obtaining his PhD at the Institut Néel in Grenoble, he continued his postdoctoral work on the manipulation and detection of quantum dot single spins. At the University of Basel, he launched Qnami in 2017 to commercialize sensors that perform very high-resolution magnetic imaging.
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Microsoft captured quantum news headlines on February 19, 2025 by publishing an arXiv blueprint for its future fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQCs) using Majorana fermions, a Nature paper about the measurement of Majorana Zero Modes (MZMs) in a chip containing the equivalent of half a physical topological qubit, and then a press release summarizing the whole and introducing a Majorana-1 chip with a complete physical qubit based on four MZMs.
The company then predicted that (their) useful quantum computers were just years away, not decades, and inline with a recent prediction from Bill Gates. As was the case with Google Willow in December 2024, many folks broadcasted the gospel. Likewise, recent news abound coming from Amazon with its Ocelot cat-qubits chip and PsiQuantum with its Omega photonic chip, all based on previously disclosed arXiv papers, released respectively in September 2024 and April 2024. In a scale of difficulty of understanding, cat-qubits are easy, measurement based photonic quantum computing is much harder, and topological and Majorana qubits are even harder.
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Nous voici dans le 64eme épisode de Quantum, le podcast qui décrypte et décortique l’actualité quantique mondiale et française.
Au menu des informations sur plein d’événements en France et dans le monde, puis des news business et scientifiques sur Quandela, Pasqal, la nouvelle startup américaine Qolab, Atom Computing et Microsoft, IBM, IonQ et D-Wave. Et, comme d’habitude, nous avons quelques perles côté bêtisier à la fin en cadeau.
Événements
Recherche à Risque
J’assistais le 7 novembre 2024 au ministère de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur à Paris à un séminaire de présentation du programme de “recherche à risque” lancé par l’État fin 2023. J’y étais invité en tant que membre du comité d’experts de sélection des projets à risque du Programme Inria Quadrant (PIQ), Inria étant l’un des organismes nationaux de recherche (ONR) impliqués dans cette démarche, en parallèle avec le CEA, le CNRS, l’INRAE et l’Inserm.
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