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Quantum Computing's New Chapter at Caltech

Quantum Computing's New Chapter at Caltech

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The partnership between Caltech and Amazon Web Services has finally come to fruition with the opening of a 21,000-square-foot building that will act as a work area for researchers studying quantum computing.To get a better sense of what kind of research, and promising new tech, will come out of the lab, dot.LA spoke with Fernando Brandão, a professor of theoretical physics who is co-leading the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. Read the full Q&A here.

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"I'm hoping within the next decade or so, we start getting to this stage of quantum computers where they start impacting society in a meaningful way," says Fernando Brandão, a professor of theoretical physics who is co-leading the AWS Center for Quantum Computing.

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