{"id":231594,"date":"2026-02-18T18:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-genius-of-computing-with-light"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:05:32","slug":"the-genius-of-computing-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-genius-of-computing-with-light","title":{"rendered":"The Genius of Computing with Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rbxcd9gaims?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out shortform and get a FREE trial and $50 OFF the annual plan! at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/DrBen\">https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/DrBen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PsiQuantum are world leaders in the race to utility-scale quantum computing, but they have been shrouded in mystery for over a decade\u2026until now.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to some good fortune and incredible generosity from the PsiQuantum team I was able to get behind the scenes and see what makes their ground-breaking quantum computer \u2018click\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You can see their public paper here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08820-7\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08820-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:00 Silicon Valley\u2019s Most Secretive Quantum Computer.<br \/> 1:38 A Quantum Computer that runs on Light.<br \/> 6:03 How to Create a Single Photon.<br \/> 9:00 How to Build a Quantum Clock.<br \/> 10:48 Ad Read.<br \/> 11:54 Detecting Single Photons.<br \/> 15:00 Creating the Perfect Material.<br \/> 18:19 How to do math with light.<br \/> 21:45 How to Build a Scalable Quantum Computer.<br \/> 24:27 Converting Space to Time.<br \/> 27:25 The First Photonic Quantum Computer Demonstrator.<\/p>\n<p>PATREON:\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udd2c \ud83d\ude80 <a href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/DrBenMiles.\">http:\/\/patreon.com\/DrBenMiles.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-genius-of-computing-with-light\">Continue reading \u201cThe Genius of Computing with Light\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out shortform and get a FREE trial and $50 OFF the annual plan! at https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/DrBen. PsiQuantum are world leaders in the race to utility-scale quantum computing, but they have been shrouded in mystery for over a decade\u2026until now. Thanks to some good fortune and incredible generosity from the PsiQuantum team I was able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}