Quantum foundations

Introduction to Quantum Computing

A structured first course in quantum information, circuits, and algorithms.

Overview

Understand the project, then explore the work.

Resources open inside this site. Guides, papers, figures, notebooks, and source files are organized around the project’s story.

About this project

Course description: Physics + Computer Science , it is the first term in a three-term course on quantum computation and quantum information science. Topics covered include density operators, quantum operations, quantum entanglement, quantum circuits, and quantum algorithms.

The primary reference for most of the lectures will be these lecture notes. Other useful books are Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Nielsen and Chuang (NC), Classical and Quantum Computation by Kitaev, Shen, and Vyalyi (KSV), [Quantum Computing Since Democritus](http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-since-Democ…

Other recommended lecture notes: John Watrous, Umesh Vazirani, Andrew Childs, Scott Aaronson, Ronald de Wolf

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