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An Introduction to Quantum Computing — HN submission

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 10:00:37 GMT

An Introduction to Quantum Computing (2007)

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An Introduction to Quantum Computing — mentioned by PNWChris

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:04:50 GMT

OP Here: I just wanted to give some context to how I found this page, and why I thought it would be good to post. I may be putting myself on the spot here: I never took a linear algebra course in undergrad. It was a heavily encouraged option, of course, but I felt I understood the basic rules enough to not really need formal study. I opted to study other areas, partially motivated by a fear I wouldn't do well and would hurt my GPA (my god was I vain, I feel I could do so much more studying full-time with my current world-view). As time has gone on, and ML and quantum computing have simply…

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An Introduction to Quantum Computing — mentioned by PNWChris

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:26:46 GMT

I gained some great intuition from http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/ and (of all things) a paper named "An Introduction to Quantum Computing"[0]. Page 3 of that paper lays out matrix multiplication (e.g.: applying a "transformation matrix" in the spatial parlance of 3blue1brown's videos) as a traversal of a directed graph. This isn't super readable (it's from my notes to self), but my intuition is: Matrix multiplication is a graph traversal: * Each i,j in transform matrix (on left) pulls N (the value at that index) times the j-th value in the input vec (on right) into the i-th output vec index…

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An Introduction to Quantum Computing — HN submission

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 15:37:06 GMT

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

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An Introduction to Quantum Computing — mentioned by umeshunni

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 03:00:50 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0261

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An Introduction to Quantum Computing — mentioned by dilippkumar

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:34:07 GMT

I enjoyed reading this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0708.0261.pdf

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An Introduction to Quantum Computing — mentioned by drdre2001

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 05:31:16 GMT

Linear Algebra is very important for Quantum Computing. You have a masters in engineering, so you shouldn't have any problems with the math. I suggest you review the basics of Linear Algebra if you haven't applied that knowledge in a while. John Preskill's lecture notes are invaluable. They start from the basics of Quantum Computing, to Quantum Theory, all the way to advanced concepts such as Topological Quantum Computation:http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/ You can also look over the Quantum Computation course that is hosted at OCW. The instructor for this course was Peter…

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An Introduction to Quantum Computing — mentioned by Thorondor

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:13:05 GMT

The paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0261 is a reasonably good introduction with a fair amount of math. If you're looking for a non-technical overview, you might try https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/quantum... but I don't think English alone is precise enough to explain anything really interesting about quantum computing.

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