Reference

This page is meant to be a collection of representative and available references for the study and research of the theoretical aspect of quantum information and computation. It is by no means complete, however, is meant to be as comprehensive as possible and will be regularly maintained. Send me an email if you have any good suggestion.

Study: Courses, Lecture Notes & Textbooks

Self-learning Materials for Beginners
- Why now is the right time to study quantum computing by A. Harrow.
- S. Aaronson: @UWaterloo Quantum Computing since Democritus
- M. Nielsen’s Quantum Computing for the determined: 22 short (5-15 mins) youtube videos, each explaining a basic concept in quantum information.
- 12th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information Lecture Notes YouTubes

Textbooks
- M. Nielsen and I. Chuang. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press; 10 Anv edition, 2011.
- A. Yu. Kitaev, A. H. Shen and M. N. Vyalyi. Classical and Quantum Computation (Graduate Studies in Mathematics), AMS, 2002.
- P.Kaye, R. Laflamme, M. Mosca. An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- S. Aaronson. Quantum Computing since Democritus, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Same-name Course
- N. David Mermin. Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Same-name Course
- M. Wilde. Quantum Information Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Same-name Course
- M. Hayashi. Quantum Information: An Introduction, Springer, 2006.
- Lecture Notes by J. Watrous. Theory of Quantum Information
- Lecture Notes by J. Preskill. Quantum Computation
- Lecture Notes by R. de Wolf. Quantum Computing

Entry-level Courses
- J. Preskill: @Caltech Quantum Computation
- R. Cleve: @UWaterloo Introduction to Quantum Information Processing
- U. Vazirani: @UC Berkeley Qubits, Quantum Mechanics, and Computers
- P. Shor: @MIT 18.435 Quantum Computing
- I. Chung: @MIT 2.111 Quantum Computation
- N. David Mermin: @Cornell Quantum Computer Science
- R. de Wolf: @University of Amsterdam Quantum Computing
- A. Imamoglu and R. Renner: @ETH Quantum Information Processing
- M. Wilde: @LSU Theory of Quantum Computation, @LSU Introduction to Quantum Information
- J. Yard: @UWaterloo Introduction to Quantum Information Processing

Entry-level Courses (Quantum Crypto)
- S. Wehner and T. Vidick: @Caltech, @Delft, @edX, CS/PH 120 Quantum Cryptography

Advanced-level Courses
- S. Aaronson: @MIT Quantum Complexity Theory
- J. Watrous: @UWaterloo Theory of Quantum Information
- U. Vazirani: @UC Berkeley Quantum Computation
- A. Childs: @UWaterloo Quantum Algorithms
- B. Reichardt: @USC Quantum Algorithms
- R. O'Donnell, J. Wright: @ CMU Quantum Computation and Information
- D. Gottesman: @Perimeter Institute Quantum Error Correction, videos records
- T. Vidick: @Caltech Around the quantum PCP conjecture
- A. Nayak: @UWaterloo Selected Advanced Topics in Quantum Information 2015, 2014

Summer Schools
- 12th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information Lecture Notes YouTubes

Research

Major Conferences: QIP, TQC, QCrypt, QCMC; in theoretical computer science: STOC, FOCS, CCC, ICALP, SODA, CRYPTO, Eurocrypt.
Papers: ArXiv, SciRate
Blogs: The Quantum Pontiff, Quantum Frontiers, Shtetl-Optimized, Quantum Information Science Announcements
Wikis: Quantiki, Complexity Zoo, Quantum Algorithm Zoo.
Surveys (an incomplete list)
- Nature's review on the many perspectives of quantum computing.
- Quantum Computational Complexity: General ; Interactive Proofs ; Quantum PCP conjecture
- Quantum Entanglement: General ; Area law ; Mathematics of Entanglement
- Non-local Games: Communication Complexity ; Operator Space Theory
- Quantum Algorithms: Algebraic problems ; Adiabatic algorithms ; Property testing ; Learning
- Quantum information and high-energy physics: Harlow's Jerusalem Lectures ; Aaronson's Barbados Lectures
- Applications of quantum techniques to classical: Drucker-de Wolf