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"One of the biggest challenges in quantum computers is the issue of noise"
Netanel Lindner, Co-Founder and CTO of Qedma and a Technion professor, speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.
Prof. Netanel Lindner
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"One of the biggest challenges in quantum computers is the issue of noise," says Netanel Lindner, Co-Founder and CTO of Qedma and a professor at the Technion. Lindner spoke with CTech’s Amy Shapiro at Calcalist’s annual Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv, which celebrates the companies that made the ranks, including Qedma, which placed 11th in this year's list.
Lindner explains that this physical noise "leads to errors which corrupt the computation at the end." Qedma is a quantum software startup that specializes in error mitigation, taking a very different stance to the industry’s usual approach of “trying to improve things on the hardware level.” Because the startup can apply its software to an array of different quantum hardware, Lindner asserts they serve as "the bridge between the users and the quantum computers," allowing users to get "reliable results already today."
Looking ahead to some of the practical applications of quantum, Lindner emphasizes that the technology is "not like just an incremental advancement of computing". Rather, he says, "it's a completely new way of doing computing" that will allow for "discoveries in science that are not reached today with the classical computing that we have today."
You can watch the full conversation in the video above.
