Andrew Houck

We think of the crazy ideas that suddenly when they work change the way everybody thinks about the field.

And the national labs have these incredible tools that are billion-dollar ways of probing materials that are essential for figuring out all of the problems that exist in the materials layer of things.

One thing that's happened under the National Quantum Initiative Act over the last five years is that these groups have come together and used their relative strengths collectively to advance quantum science.

quantum mechanics is weird and mind-blowing, but also follows a very specific set of rules.

these rules allow us to build entirely new kinds of technology that can solve problems that we can't solve in any other way.

And three, we are actually getting close to these technologies being a reality and having a practical impact.

We're not there yet, but sometime in the next few years, they are actually going to be making a real difference in the world.

Thank you so much for having me.