- Light is one of the ways
that we're looking at quantum computing.
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We're angling for emphasizing
one of the advantages of light,
which is that it's possible
to do quantum computing
at room temperature.
A topological fluid of light
is a difficult concept.
It's to describe light that has structure.
So if you're picturing
light like a flashlight,
you know, we all get that.
But if I told you that
there were little whirlpools
within the light, and if
you looked close enough,
you could see all of them swarming around
and bumping into each other,
sometimes annihilating,
sometimes making new ones.
That is light with structure.
We're treating light as if
there are little exotic particles inside.
Our goal is to understand this idea
of these exotic particles of light
and to see if there's some merit
to building a quantum
computer with these particles.
People look at these tiny little particles
and try to make them do clever things.
We're trying to do that
with these vortices,
with these little whirlpools
of light, and that's new.
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