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A group for computer scientists and physicists with aspirations of becoming quantum scientists. Quantum computing, jobs, books and graduate school are amongst the topics covered.

"Keep learning, or risk becoming irrelevant."

Publicly available quantum computing books (WIP)

Our Telegram channel:

https://t.me/BoltzmannQ

Introduction

The development of a quantum computer calls on expertise in a wide range of scientific fields, including quantum mechanics, as well as experimental and theoretical physics, photonics, computer science, and software engineering.

This list is for you if you are a physicist, a computer scientist, or a student who is interested in becoming a quantum computing scientist.

The topics include:

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Quantum information processing
  • Quantum computing
  • Quantum information theory

If you are also considering graduate school, you should start by reading: "Preparing for the quantum revolution: What is the role of higher education"

The article discusses the important role higher education should play in preparing society for the coming quantum revolution. As quantum technologies such as computing, sensing, and communications advance, there will be major impacts across many industries and all levels of society. Universities need to expand quantum curricula, research, and lab capacity to train the quantum-ready workforce of the future. Partnerships with industry and national labs are also key to providing real-world experiences. Additionally, institutions must focus on quantum literacy and outreach to the broader community. The quantum revolution brings immense opportunities as well as risks, and higher education must take the lead in readying both students and the public to meet this watershed moment.

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10233228

Math and physics refresher course:

http://salfordphysics.com/gsmcdonald/pp/PPLATOResources/PPLATO.htm

http://salfordphysics.com/gsmcdonald/hFLAPP.php

The largest QM resource listing: (Frank Rioux Professor Emeritus Department of Chemistry)

https://faculty.csbsju.edu/frioux/workinprogress.html

Online PDF books:

The "Quantum quest" is an online QC course for beginners which uses the lovely Quirk simulator.

https://quantum-quest.nl/quirky/ https://www.quantum-quest.nl/quantumquest-2021.pdf

https://qici.weebly.com/uploads/7/4/5/1/74515901/qitextbook.pdf

https://www.chalmers.se/SiteCollectionDocuments/Centrum/WACQT/FullLectureNotesv2.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.09510.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.02051.pdf

https://www.fmt.if.usp.br/~gtlandi/lecture-notes-2.pdf

https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS4110/h20/undervisningsmateriale/midtermexams2004-19.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0011013.pdf

https://www.ifsc.usp.br/~strontium/Publication/Scripts/QuantumMechanicsScript.pdf

http://www2.fiit.stuba.sk/~kvasnicka/QuantumComputing/Gruska_QC.pdf

http://www.thomaswong.net/introduction-to-classical-and-quantum-computing.pdf

https://qubit.guide/iqis-book.pdf

https://zhenyucai.com/post/intro_to_qi/AdditionalMaterials/PrelimMaterials.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.4222.pdf

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ae/papers/qc.pdf

https://young.physics.ucsc.edu/150/phys_150_all.pdf

https://www.if.ufrj.br/~carlos/fismod/seminarios/SternGerlach/SternGerlach_programas/SpinBook02.pdf

https://people.phys.ethz.ch/~babis/Teaching/QM1/qm1.pdf

https://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/en/einrichtungen/ag/ag-eisert/teaching/QMChapter1.pdf

https://cse.sc.edu/~fenner/csce790/notes/course-notes.pdf

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~ggu1/files/ECE692SemicondFundm_03_QuantumMechanicsPrimer.pdf

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.212.9174&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://lapastillaroja.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Intro_to_QC_Vol_1_Loceff.pdf

https://baraksh.com/4P51/Barak_Shoshany_PHYS_4P51_Lecture_Notes.pdf

https://research.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/csg/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Intro-QIP-and-QC.pdf

http://www.umsl.edu/~majzoube/docs/QM_primer_v3.x.pdf

https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=egp

https://everettyou.github.io/teaching/PHYS212A/QubitsAndEntanglement.pdf

https://www.itp.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/a3233/upload/SS16/PQC/PQC_LectureNotes.pdf

http://www.umsl.edu/~majzoube/docs/QM_primer_v3.x.pdf

http://cleve.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/resources/QIC-710-F21/Qic710QuantumAlgorithmsPart1.pdf

http://physics.mq.edu.au/~jcresser/Phys301/Chapters/ToC.pdf

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/f19quantum/notes/vidick.pdf

https://edu.itp.phys.ethz.ch/hs15/QIT/renes_lecture_notes14.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.00282.pdf

https://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/gruska/qbook1.pdf

https://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/ph410problems.pdf

https://www.chem.uci.edu/~unicorn/249/Handouts/QMPostulates2020.pdf

https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/sites/ca.institute-for-quantum-computing/files/uploads/files/mathematics_qm_v22.pdf

https://faculty.csbsju.edu/frioux/matmech/RudimentaryMatrixMechanics.pdf

https://www.chalmers.se/en/centres/wacqt/graduate%20school/aqa/Documents/FullLectureNotes.pdf

https://wdscultan.github.io/files/qphys.pdf

https://girvin.sites.yale.edu/sites/default/files/_girvin_introduction_to_quantum_2020.05.02_v1_0.pdf

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/25245217.pdf

https://www-m5.ma.tum.de/foswiki/pub/M5/Allgemeines/MA5057_2019S/QIPlecture.pdf

https://www.carlosnb.com/quantum-optics-course

https://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/gruska/quantum20/

https://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/itp/emeritus/dragon/qm_eng.pdf

https://wdscultan.github.io/files/qphys.pdf

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/noahmiller/files/statistical_mechanics.pdf

QISKIT

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04359

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10647

https://indico.desy.de/event/26672/contributions/60980/attachments/39510/49043/DESY_Qiskit_Intro_Kuehn.pdf

https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/qc/qc19/readings/qiskit.pdf

https://alexheilman.com/products/notes/qa/qa.pdf

https://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~wcchen/QAnotes/Introduction%20to%20Qiskit%207.pdf

https://colab.research.google.com/github/mtreinish/qiskit-workshop/blob/master/Workshop.ipynb

https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html

SGE

https://homepages.rpi.edu/~meuniv/IQM21/html/chapter1.html#chapter1

https://www.if.ufrj.br/~carlos/fismod/seminarios/SternGerlach/SternGerlach_programas/SpinBook02.pdf

https://www.if.ufrj.br/~carlos/fismod/seminarios/SternGerlach/SternGerlach_Zhu_AJP2011.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ng5khct0tl59pl7/Chapter1.pdf?dl=0

https://www.cs.ucf.edu/~dcm/Teaching/QuantumComputing/Fall2004Class-QC/QCV1.pdf

Online tutorials:

http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/~ian/hotlist/qc/intro.shtml

https://phsites.technion.ac.il/quantum-computing-technion-school/exercises-lecture-notes-and-slides/

http://davidbkemp.github.io/QuantumComputingArticle/

https://heyredhat.github.io/

https://qosf.org/learn_quantum/

https://aroosaijaz.github.io/talks/

https://phsites.technion.ac.il/quantum-computing-technion-school/recorded-lectures/

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1718/QuantComp/

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1617/QuantComp/materials.html

https://www.qi.damtp.cam.ac.uk/part-ib-quantum-mechanics

http://theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph219/ph219_2021-22.html

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ojjrEqIyPy-1RRD8cTD_lF1hflo89Iu

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQOPozM-bhZrWIyxwD_sMe9Q0HvwMzJNS

http://davidbkemp.github.io/QuantumComputingArticle/

https://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs191/sp05/

http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/FabianEssler/Quantum.html

https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/math/MAT3420/v21/timeplan/index.html#FOR

https://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~suzuki/QuantumMechanics.html

http://cleve.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/qic710/

https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/mmoore/851.html

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jyard/qic710/

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jyard/qic710/F17/

http://simons.hec.utah.edu/TheoryPage/BookPDF/

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse599d/06wi/

Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley): http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs191/sp12/

John Preskill (Caltech): http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/

Andrew Childs (University of Maryland): http://cs.umd.edu/~amchilds/qa/

John Watrous (University of Waterloo): https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~watrous/TQI/