A hand-picked set of resources I keep coming back to.
Video channels, talk archives and full courses, grouped by who they are for.
For a broad audience, no background assumed:
Research talks, seminars & courses, more specialized:
Quantum-information conference series worth keeping an eye on.
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QIP
· Quantum Information Processing, the largest annual conference in the field
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TQC
· Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography
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QCrypt
· the annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography
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QCTiP
· Quantum Computing Theory in Practice
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AQIS
· Asian Quantum Information Science Conference
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QUACC+
· Quantum Certification Conference, on the verification of quantum technologies
Portals and research networks where the community gathers.
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Quantiki
· the quantum-information portal: news, conference listings, jobs and a community wiki
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European Tensor Network
· schools, seminars, a member directory and a job board for the tensor-network community
Preprint feeds, open-access journals and reference works I keep close.
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arXiv quant-ph
· the daily quantum-physics preprint feed
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SciRate
· tracks and ranks new arXiv papers by community interest
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Quantum
· the open-access journal for quantum science (I serve as an editor)
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SciPost
· community-run, genuinely open-access physics publishing
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Complexity Zoo
· the community-maintained catalogue of computational complexity classes, started by Scott Aaronson
Software I (and my students) reach for, grouped by purpose.
Quantum toolkits:
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QuTiP
· the Quantum Toolbox in Python, for simulating open quantum systems
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Qiskit
· IBM's open-source quantum computing SDK
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PennyLane
· Xanadu's library for differentiable quantum programming and quantum machine learning
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Cirq
· Google's framework for writing and running quantum circuits
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QETLAB
· a MATLAB toolbox for entanglement theory and quantum information
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QUBIT4MATLAB
· Géza Tóth's MATLAB package for everyday quantum-information computations (partial transpose, reduced states, GHZ, graph and Dicke states), still actively maintained
Tensor networks:
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TeNPy
· Tensor Network Python, for simulating strongly correlated quantum systems
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ITensor
· a C++ and Julia library for tensor-network calculations with named indices
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quimb
· a Python library for quantum information and many-body calculations, with a strong tensor-network module
Optimization & semidefinite programming:
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CVXPY
· a Python modelling language for convex optimization
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YALMIP
· a MATLAB toolbox for optimization modelling, widely used for semidefinite programs
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RepLAB
· a MATLAB and Octave toolbox for representation theory; pairs with YALMIP to exploit symmetry in semidefinite programs
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Moment
· a fast C++ and MATLAB toolkit for moment-matrix relaxations of noncommutative polynomial optimization, including the NPA hierarchy
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Inflation
· a Python library implementing the inflation technique for classical and quantum causal compatibility
Convex & SDP solvers:
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MOSEK
· a fast solver for semidefinite and conic optimization, with free academic licences
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SDPJSolver.jl
· an arbitrary-precision semidefinite programming solver in Julia
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Clarabel.jl
· a modern Julia interior-point solver for conic problems, with arbitrary-precision support
A few books I am happy to recommend.
Popular science, for the curious reader:
For students, more specialized:
Long-running blogs I enjoy, on quantum information, complexity and mathematics:
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Shtetl-Optimized
· Scott Aaronson on quantum computing and complexity
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Quantum Frontiers
· the blog of the IQIM at Caltech
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The Quantum Pontiff
· quantum computing and the academic life, started by Dave Bacon and now run by Charlie Bennett, Aram Harrow and Steve Flammia
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What's new
· Terence Tao on mathematics, expository and research