Yonatan Cohen of Quantum Machines is our podcast guest

Building bridges between quantum and classical computing

Physics World Weekly Podcast

Hello and welcome to the Physics World Weekly Podcast. I'm Hamish Johnston and my guest in this episode is Yonatan Cohen, who is co-founder and chief technology officer of Quantum Machines.

The company was started in Israel in 2018 and it now has facilities worldwide. As Yonatan explains, Quantum Machines develops control systems for quantum computers, providing a link between the quantum and classical worlds.

Hi Yonatan, welcome to the podcast. Hi Hamish, thanks for having me. So Yonatan, can you give us a brief introduction to the company? When was it founded? How many employees do you have? And what's the main business focus?

Yeah, so at Quantum Machines, we're focused on accelerating the realization of useful quantum computers by providing the control systems for quantum computers. We're providing control systems for many, many different players in the quantum industry. The control system is one of the core elements of a quantum computer.

It's a system, it's a classical system, not the quantum system, but the classical system that operates the quantum hardware and orchestrates the quantum operations that we perform on the quantum hardware. We were founded in 2018. We're three founders, physicists. We all did our PhDs together in the same lab at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.

And today we are almost more than 300 people around the world. We're spread in over 21 countries. And we have more than 500 customers around the world using our products. And yeah, it's very exciting. And why is it important to integrate quantum and classical systems?

Why do you have to do that to do effective quantum computing? And what are some of the challenges involved? Yeah, so to begin with, you know, we are classical beings.

Building bridges between quantum and classical computing

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Building bridges between quantum and classical computing

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.