Awesome Quantum Computing

Introduction

A curated list of awesome quantum computing learning and developing resources. The goal is to build a categorised community-driven collection of up to date, high quality resources.

Sharing, suggestions and contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines and quality standard first. Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and it wouldn't be possible without you!

Contents

• Learning
• MOOCS
• Development Tools
• Blogs
• Books
• Papers

Learning

• Documentation for Forest and pyQuil - Tutorials for Rigetti Computing's SDK.
• IBM Q Full User Guide - Short tutorials providing a gentle introduction to quantum computing and IBM Q.
• Nielsen and Chuang - Worked examples on quantum algorithm problems.
• QISKit Tutorials - Jupyter notebooks simply demonstrating how to use QISKit.
• Quantum Algorithm Zoo - Comprehensive catalog of quantum algorithms.

MOOCs

• MIT Quantum Information Sciences - A series of lecture notes on the MIT quantum information sciences course.
• Quantum Cryptography - Learn how quantum communication provides security that is guaranteed by the laws of nature.
• Quantum Information Science I, Part I - A foundational course on quantum information and computation.
• The Quantum Internet and Quantum Computers: How Will They Change the World? - Discover quantum computers and the quantum internet. Learn the principles and promises behind these developments and how they will impact our future.
• Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation - A conceptual introduction to the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics.
• Understanding Quantum Computers - An introduction to the key concepts of quantum computing with minimal mathematics.

Development Tools

• IBM Quantum Composer - Online quantum composer to run experiments on real quantum computing hardware.
• Microsoft Quantum Development Kit - Microsoft Q# programming language.
• QCL - An older, C like language for quantum computers. Only has a simulator and debugger.
• QISKit SDK - Software development kit for working with OpenQASM and the IBM Q Experience.
• QuTiP - Quantum toolbox in Python for simulating dynamics of open quantum systems.
• pyQuil - A Python library for quantum programming using Quil.

Blogs

• Decodoku - Interesting posts on quantum computation, by James Wootton.

Books

• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - A well appreciated comprehensive textbook for those with a bit of prior knowledge in maths, computer science and physics.
• Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists - This textbook teaches quantum computing using an approach that is accessible to undergraduate computer science students.
• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - An introduction to the main ideas in quantum computation and quantum information.

Papers

• Quantum Machine Learning - Quantum Machine Learning: What Quantum Computing Means to Data Mining.
• Opportunities and Challenges for Quantum Machine Learning - Opportunities and challenges for quantum-assisted machine learning in near-term quantum computers.