Education

1. Quantum internet & quantum computers: how will they change the world? – an introduction to the various potential applications of a quantum computer and a quantum internet.

2. Building blocks of a quantum computer – part 1: what does a quantum computer look like, what components will it have and how does a quantum computer operate? Part 1 focusses on the layers of the qubit.

3. Building blocks of a quantum computer – part 2: as a continuation of part 1, part 2 will explain the other layers of a quantum computer, ranging from the electronics, to hardware, software and algorithms needed to operate a quantum computer.

4. Quantum Cryptography: this course dives deeper into the quantum protocols and how this will lead to secure communication. Caltech has online the course material for Physics 219, Quantum Computation. This is a course which has evolved for over 10 years and now has over 400 pages of material online in nine chapters. You can find this course at: http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/ Umesh Vazirani of UC Berkeley has recorded a series of 64 video lectures for a course titled: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation. The videos are short ranging from 5 to 20 minutes in length and provide a good introduction to basic quantum mechanical principles, qubits, and quantum algorithms.  The videos have been uploaded onto YouTube and you can find them at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1uoz_8dLH0&list=PL74Rel4IAsETUwZS_Se_P-fSEyEVQwni7. Daniel Colomer of Quantum Intuition has created a YouTube channel containing several hundred videos covering a broad range of topics related to quantum algorithms and programming quantum computers. The videos are divided into six areas including Project Reviews, Quantum AI/ML, Textbook Algorithms, Useful Primitives, Quantum Error Correction, and Book & Online Course Reviews.  The videos range in length from 2 minutes to 2 hours, but the average is roughly in the 30 minute range.  These videos are a good source for those who want to better understand a particular topic because the videos show online demonstrations using several different software platforms such as Qiskit, Cirq, Pennylane, Quirk and others.  You can view the videos on the Quantum Intuition YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2knDbf4kzT3uzOeizWo7iTJyw. Scott Aaronson has posted online his Quantum Information Science lecture notes.  The notes are available in two parts. The first one, Introduction to Quantum Information Science Lecture Notes, which has 259, pages has assumes that a reader has knowledge of linear algerbra and some knowledge of classical algorithms. It then explains many of the basic concepts of quantum computing as well as including descriptions of the algorithms of Deutsch-Jozsa, Bernstein-Vazirani, Simon, Shor, and Grover. The second one, Introduction to Quantum Information Science II Lecture Notes, which has 155 pages and picks up where the first part leaves off, covers advanced topics in quantum computing that have been developed more recently within the past 15 years. A blog article that describes these lecture notes is available here. MIT offers an xPRO series consisting of two series with two courses in each series. The courses consist of video lectures from MIT professors with associated problem sets and each lasts for four weeks. The Quantum Computing Fundamentals series has two courses. The first is called Introduction to Quantum Computing and the second is called Quantum Computing Algorithms for Cybersecurity, Chemistry, and Optimization. The Quantum Computing Realities series has Practical Realities of Quantum Computation and Quantum Communications as the first course and Requirements for Large-Scale Universal Quantum Computation as the second. Details on these courses and links to enroll in them can be found on the MIT web site at https://learn-xpro.mit.edu/quantum-computing. Quantum Computing UK provides a web site that contains several tutorials that introduces the reader to quantum computing.  In addition, they maintain a code repository that allows someone to run programs on quantum computers and they also perform research and publish papers on quantum computing algorithms. Dr. James Wootton of the University of Basel has developed a blog site called Decodoku and associated games devoted to the topic of quantum error correction.   The site contains two games called Decodoku and Decodoku Puzzles where are available for download on both IOS and Android.   Playing the games allows one to learn and do research on quantum error correction.    In addition, the blog has a good series of posts that provide a good tutorial on quantum error correction. The Linux Foundation in partnership with the World Bank has released a free, online course called Fundamentals of Quantum Computing. The course provides an understanding on how quantum computing could be used for complex decision making far beyond current computer capabilities, as well as an understanding of the technological, governmental, and industrial implications as the technology further matures. The course, which would take about 3 hours to complete, discusses the fundamentals of quantum computing, highlighting potential technological disruptions it brings. It discusses the current capabilities of quantum computing, current use cases, as well as prospective future applications, while emphasizing security advantages and dangers, especially around secure communication and encryption. Qubitekk and Phase Space Computing, have developed educational toolkits suitable for classroom use that provides students with hands-on experience with quantum phenomena.  The Qubitekk product, called the Quantum Mechanics Lab Kit,  includes all of the equipment and instructions needed to perform seven fundamental experiments in quantum mechanics.  The kit is based on photonic technology and includes a laser, bi-photon source, photon counting module, coincidence counter and various fiber optic components to demonstrate entanglement, superposition and other quantum phenomena.  The Phase Space Computing Toolkits consist of electronic circuit boards that approximate the behavior of quantum gates. They use patent pending, two-complementary pass-transistor logic to similar the behavior of reversible quantum gates. Their toolboxes can demonstrate functions such as quantum key distribution, teleportation, superdense coding, the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm and Shor’s algorithm. qutools GmbH is offering three different Quantum Physics Education and Science Kits.  These include quED, an entanglement demonstrator, Quantenkoffer, a plug and play quantum science kit with single and entangled photon pairs that provide multiple tokens with different optical abilities give a huge variety of experiments and quNV for investigating quantum sensing using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. Thorlabs provides a Discovery line of educational products aims to promote physics, optics, and photonics. These include a Quantum Cryptography Kit that contains components to model a data transmission setup using the BB84 encryption protocol, a Quantum Eraser Kit that shows through analogy the quantum-mechanical principle of complementarity and the erasure of path information, and a Bomb Tester Kit that uses an analogy experiment to demonstrate the principle of "interaction-free quantum measurement" discussed in the "Bomb Tester" thought experiment. There is a concise, yet very understandable brief on quantum annealing written by Brianna Gopaul.  The brief describes how quantum annealing works, what organizations are developing quantum annealers, and applications where they may be used.  You can view this brief at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quantum-annealers-solving-worlds-optimization-problems-brianna-gopaul/.