How to quantum simulate exotic materials and build a scientific career - Fabian Grusdt with Ella Crane and Alex Schuckert

Some of the most exotic materials found in the last decades still defy an explanation for their unusual properties, including high-temperature superconductors, materials which can conduct electricity without loss and the need to cool to close to absolute zero. In this episode, Fabian Grusdt explains how he tries to find an explanation for these counter-intuitive properties using analogue quantum computers, a type of quantum computer adapted to solving hard problems in material science not solvable by usual supercomputers. Fabian is a theorist developing new protocols to better use the capabilities of these impressive new tools as well as intuitive models to understand the results obtained by them. Fabian just started his own research group being just thirty years old. In the second part of the episode, he explains how he is approaching this new task and gives advice to young researchers starting their own career.