John Martinis

And I would consider in my research, we have the simple fabrication with the original papers in 85.

And then around 2000, we had more sophisticated fabrication.

And then for the quantum supremacy experiment,

We did something even more complicated, other groups too, but we want to do a similar jump in the fabrication.

And what's interesting about this is we're going to be using applied materials and the modern fabrication processes that they have

which on 300 millimeter tools, you know, you can't get in China, for example.

You can get it for CMOS.

And then they're developing, we're developing standard processes, but, you know, new recipes and new ways to put it together.

And we think by doing that, we can do a huge leapfrog and then get there faster and get there in a way that, you know, will protect our lead.

There's other things we're doing, too.

You know, that that's a small part of it.

But, you know, we think there's a way to, you know, really lead the field.

And we're happy.

We have good industrial partners of Applied Materials, Synopsys, Design Tools, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, some startups who do the theory work.

So, you know, we have a good consortium and we want to use all that knowledge and expertise of engineering to make this happen.

So let me give you a little bit of the inside story.

You know, we've known that this was an important experiment from the beginning.

We've attained some other prizes that are, you know, much less well known and really appreciative of all that.

And what happens is the Nobel system put together Nobel symposiums where they get together physicists in a certain field, which is quantum information and this kind of thing.

And they they give have all the scientists give talks and and they want to kind of check on the vitality of the, you know, of the field.