Learning Quantum Computer Resources

Some resources to help humans in the process of learning quantum computer.

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Basics

• Quantum computing explained with simple mathematics. By Microsoft Research.
  • Title: Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists
  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Riqjdh2oM
• Classical methods vs Quantum ones and explications about quantum gates.
  • Title: An introduction to quantum machine learning
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3097
• Quantum machine learning explained by Université Laval students. It is a short french video.
  • Title: Tensorflow QML
  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcoA53j6yiU

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Quantum machine learning

Python frameworks

• Tensorflow:
  • Site: https://www.tensorflow.org/quantum
  • Github: https://github.com/tensorflow/quantum/
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.02989.pdf
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9AhIz1uvo
• Pennylane:
  • Site: https://pennylane.ai/
  • Github: https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/PennyLane
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04968
• Cirq:
  • Site: https://quantumai.google/cirq
  • Github: https://github.com/quantumlib/cirq
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ZfkPRVf2w

Key consepts

• Key concepts by Pennylane: https://pennylane.ai/qml/glossary.html

Devices

Circuits

• Parametrized quantum circuits by Pennylane
  • Title: Variational circuits
  • Link: https://pennylane.ai/qml/glossary/variational_circuit.html
• Continuous-variable
  • Title: Continuous-variable quantum neural networks
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.06871.pdf

Gradient calculation

• Parameter-shift rules by Pennylane
  • Title: Parameter-shift rules
  • Link: https://pennylane.ai/qml/glossary/parameter_shift.html

Backpropagation

• Quantum gradients with backpropagation by Pennylane
  • Title: Quantum gradients with backpropagation
  • Link: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_backprop.html

Circuit Ansatz

• How to know which operator to used in a quantum circuit
  • Title: Circuit Ansatz
  • Link: https://pennylane.ai/qml/glossary/circuit_ansatz.html

Examples

• Noisy sinus function fitting by Pennylane
  • Title: Function fitting with a photonic quantum neural network
  • Link: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/quantum_neural_net.html

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