John Martinis

just an array of these, and you just use capacitive coupling from one wire to the next one to couple them together.

And it's more complicated than that, but that gives you a good idea.

Yeah, it was the very basic simplest circuit.

You know, we were using analog simulators at the time.

I took data with a computer, but this is far back enough that, you know, it was very rudimentary.

And then over the years, we just got more sophisticated design by the whole field.

You know, many, many people.

And we were able to put things together in a way to actually build a computer.

Now, I would say the reason why it's interesting from the Nobel Prize thing is what it led to.

And what it led to right now is a thousand, maybe several thousand people around the world doing research to build this superconducting quantum computer.

And it just turned into enormous field, large number of papers, large number of people, people selling quantum computers.

IBM is selling quantum computers.

People are selling time on the quantum computers.

And the fact that it was a useful idea, okay, that led and brought into form all these different experiments, ideas.

And many, many people contributed to this.

Yeah, I can talk on that.

But I would say, you know, this field, many other ideas on how to build a quantum computer has been generated.

And it is very exciting field, quite large field.

And I would say that the science was very, very deep, too, to get these things to work.

You have to invent lots of different devices.