External recommended resources for learning quantum information science are linked below.
External Recommended Resources
Resources on Quantum Computation/Information:
- [Textbook] Quantum computation and information by Nielsen and Chuang.
- Gold-standard introductory/reference textbook for the field.
- [Lecture notes] Preskill's Lecture Notes.
- Famous lecture notes for John Preskill's course on quantum computation.
- [Lecture notes] Scott Aaronson Quantum Computing Lecture Notes.
- Lecture notes from the course "Introduction to Quantum Information Science" at UT Austin.
- [Lecture notes] Ronald de Wolf's Lecture Notes.
- Covers quantum algorithms, quantum complexity, "Alice and Bob stuff," and error correction.
- [Lecture notes] Andrew Child's Lecture Notes.
- Lecture notes on quantum algorithms.
- [Textbook] Quantum information theory by Mark Wilde.
- Textbook on quantum information, pdf available for free through MSU library (for MSU students/faculty).
- [Video lectures] Quantum computing for the determined by Michael Nielsen.
- Short course with lecture videos on quantum computing.
- [Video lectures] Boulder 2018 School on Quantum Information.
- Video lectures/lecture notes on quantum information science by multiple researchers in multiple areas (algorithms, entanglement, foundations, etc.).
- [Video lectures] Quantum Information Course by Daniel Gottesman.
- 14 video lectures from Daniel Gottesman's course on quantum information at Perimeter Institute, recorded in 2015.
- [Textbook] A course in quantum computing for the community college.
- Excellent self-contained, introductory notes on quantum computing and background topics (complex numbers, vector spaces, matrices, etc.). Video lectures are also available.
- [Lecture notes] Quantum computing course by Dave Bacon.
- 2006 CS intro/survey to quantum computing covering quantum algorithms, error correction, and quantum information.
- [Video lectures] Mathematical methods of quantum information theory.
- Video lectures by Richard Werner at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2017.
- [Lecture notes] The complexity of quantum states and transformations.
- Lecture notes for a 2016 workshop on on quantum complexity, covering basic quantum to complexity to AdS/CFT to quantum money.
- [Website] CQuIC courses.
- Online lecture notes for many courses from CQuIC at the University of New Mexico.
- [Website] Quantum algorithm zoo.
- Website with an up-to-date list of all (most) known quantum algorithms.
- [Review paper] Overview and comparison of gate level quantum software platforms.
- Survey paper on quantum programming languages.
- [Video lecture] Quantum information and quantum programming.
- 2018 talk by the great Ali Javadi-Abhari at the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
- [Website] Quirk: Drag-and-Drop Quantum Circuit Simulator.
- Graphical drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator for pedagogical purposes with video tutorials and several example algorithms.
- [Quantum software] Forest by Rigetti.
- [Quantum software] Qiskit by IBM.
- [Quantum software] Cirq by Google.
- [Quantum software] ProjectQ .
- [Quantum software] QDK by Microsoft.
- [Website] http://quantum.info/conf/index.html
- Curated list of quantum science and technology conferences.
- [Blog] Shtetl-Optimized.
- Blog by Scott Aaronson. Popular amongst quantum mechanics.
- [Wiki] Timeline of quantum computing.
- Historical events in chronological order since 1960.
- [Book] Quantum computing since Democritus.
- [Website] Advice from Aram.
- Advice on learning quantum computing from one of the field's best researchers.
- [Open problems] Ten Semi-Grand Challenges.
- Ten problems in quantum information theory by Scott Aaronson, from 2005.
- [Website] Quantum computing report.
- Up-to-date information on all happenings in quantum computing, more focused on the business side.