Self-study roadmap for Quantum Computing

Advice

Prerequisites:

  • linear algebra (vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, tensor products)
  • complex numbers
  • if you know the basics of quantum mechanics then well done
  • calculus is not necessary but useful
  • Probability theory (i would recommend it for quantum algorithms & information theory)

Basics:

  1. For interactive intro: https://quantum.country/qcvc
  2. Old is gold yk so go through this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Riqjdh2oM&list=PL1826E60FD05B44E4
  3. For quantum circuit & gates: https://qiskit.org/textbook/
  4. To run simple simple quantum programs: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/

Intermediate: Welcome homie

  1. Principles of Quantum Computation and Information - Volume I then II
  2. Quantum algorithms - https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-algorithms/
  3. For physics part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w08pSFsAZvE&list=PL0ojjrEqIyPy-1RRD8cTD_lF1hflo89Iu
  4. Practice coding quantum algorithms using Qiskit or Cirq https://quantumai.google/cirq/tutorials

Advance level: I myself not aware of much here but if you wanna explore research oriented side and theoretical knowledge then i know some books.

  1. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Nielsen & Chuang
  2. An Introduction to Quantum Computing by Kaye, Laflamme & Mosca
  3. IBM Quantum Experience and Amazon Braket https://aws.amazon.com/braket/ for cloud-based quantum computing.

Quantum computing is vast so learning it in a month or day (humph not possible) you can also learn quantum complexity theory but this is focused on practical quantum computing.

Posted Mar 16, 2025, 7:06 AM UTC

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