[MUSIC PLAYING] ERIK LUCERO: Hi, everyone. My name is Erik Lucero. I'm pleased to have you here
at the Quantum AI campus. I'm going to walk you
around, show you a bit about not only the history
of how we got here, show you a little bit more
about the space and the lab, and where we're headed. So I'd love to start with our
Sycamore quantum processors. Behind this piece
of metal right here, on this circuit board and all
these connectors that we have, is the actual quantum processor. This system gets mounted
into our cryostat. And that system we're
going to see in full scale in just a moment inside the lab. So it's also a
pleasure to have you here for all the
reasons I'm going to show you some of the
collaborations that we've had, from our nine-qubit
systems that have now scaled up to, say, beyond 54. Here's a nice example
of one of our systems that we have that was 22 qubits. And it's really cool
because all of these will be put together in the
lab that you're about to see. So I'm going to take you there. So come with me. Now I'm going to show you
where we take those Sycamore processors that I
showed you earlier and install them
into the cryostat. So we're going to walk over
to one of my favorite systems here. This little cryostat is what we
use to cool those systems down to really a couple orders of
magnitude colder than space. Basically, each
one of these metal stages that you see here, from
this edge all the way down, kind of in this layer cake,
the very bottom of that is what we call the mixing chamber. At that point there is
where we mount the quantum processor, that Sycamore system
that I showed you earlier. And it thermalizes
to that plate. That plate gets to
10 milli-kelvin. That's really cold. That's some of the coldest
places in the universe. That's two orders of magnitude
colder than between two galaxies. All of that system
runs all the way up at the top, where we
have wires that come out. You can see over here,
on our control system, those are custom
control electronics that our team, engineers
here at Google, have done and
designed specifically to control the quantum
processor inside. I like to think of
them as a music player, playing music to the qubits. There's some analog
pulses that come down and that musical score gets
played through those wires all the way down
to those qubits. There's a lot of different
skill sets all over the world that these people are
coming from to join the team and think about what is a
quantum computer actually going to serve everyone, and
how do we do that responsibly for the world and make
this a tool for humanity. All right. So now I'm going to tell
you a little bit more about what the space
is going to look like as we scale in the future. Today, we are here
right now, at this point where we've just gotten past
the beyond classical experiment. And we're headed towards
these next milestones to build an error
corrected logical qubit, and finally, to an error
corrected quantum computer. This space will grow. And we've really designed
it to be the kind of place where we can land a number of
these milestones along the way. Each one of these
cryostats are systems that our team has spent
many, many hours in design and customizations
to make these some of the most powerful quantum
computers in the world. We can do the impossible. And we look at quantum
computing as something that we look at as maybe
it's a 10-year investment. At the other end of that will
be this tool for humanity. And I think it's an
important part of that style of creativity that it's not
just a scientist's creativity or just an artist's. It's actually that
combination of both that gives us the ability
to be inventing the future. So it's been a pleasure to
share with you all this space. I can't wait to show
it to you in person and to see this place come
together for an error corrected logical qubit. Until then, take care. I'll see you all later. [MUSIC PLAYING]
