Chetan Nayak

Chetan Nayak, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and a professor at UCSB, dives into the fascinating world of Majorana qubits. He shares his journey from hearing Peter Shor's lectures to creating Microsoft's topological quantum hardware. Chetan explains how non-Abelian anyons enable error-resistant quantum computation and discusses the intricate design of nanowires. The conversation also highlights innovative architectures like tetris and the practical challenges in combining semiconductors and superconductors for scaling quantum technologies.