Hardware-Faithful Digital Twins for Quantum Computing with Izhar Medalsy
From The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology by Sebastian Hassinger
May 4, 2026 · 38 min · Episode 91
About this episode
Izhar Medalsy discusses the challenges of quantum hardware iteration and the potential of hardware-faithful digital twins.
Quantum hardware iteration is gated by the simple fact that real QPUs are expensive, scarce, and noisy in ways that generic simulators don't capture. In this episode, Izhar Medalsy, co-founder and CEO of Quantum Elements, explains why the industry is still building "wooden models in the air tunnel" — and how hardware-faithful digital twins, scaled to a distance-7 rotated surface code with 97 physical qubits on AWS HPC, could give pulse engineers, circuit designers, and QEC decoder teams a faster, cheaper place to iterate.
People in this episode
Host: Sebastian Hassinger
Guest: Izhar Medalsy
Topics covered
- quantum computing
- digital twins
- hardware
- quantum processors
- engineering
- technology
Keywords
- quantum hardware
- digital twins
- quantum processors
- pulse engineers
- circuit designers
- QEC decoders
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Quantum Elements, AWS HPC
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