> studying the underlying Quantum Mechanics and understanding this new concept of how physical reality might look like under the hood (there are actually multip

> studying the underlying Quantum Mechanics and understanding this new concept of how physical reality might look like under the hood (there are actually multiple interpretations of that, from Probabilism to the popular Many-World-Theory) has been eye-opening. > I was asked to find something that does not require so much understanding of Quantum Computing Sounds like QM was a new subject to you and you didn't know/understand QM enough to do research in an adjacent field. Not sure why you'd pick a field that you don't have much background in to do a PhD in. I'm not sure what advice you expected your supervisors to give.