Links

Links for open-access versions are given when available.

Recommended books/papers/lecture notes

  • Lecture notes by John Preskill on Quantum Information Theory.
  • Daniel A. Lidar, Todd A. Brun, Quantum Error Correction, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • Lecture notes by Michael M. Wolf on Quantum Channels.
  • The first proof of quantum advantage not relying on any oracle or complexity assumption:
    Quantum advantage with shallow circuits – Bravyi, König, Gosset
  • Valter Moretti, Spectral Theory and Quantum Mechanics, Springer, 2013.
  • Roger A. Horn,  Charles R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • Martin Schottenloher, A Mathematical Introduction to Conformal Field Theory, Springer, 2008.
  • If you are interested in string theory, this is a good book to get started:
    Barton Zwiebach, A First Course in String Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Best undergraduate texts I can remember:

  • Bramanti, Salsa, Pagani, Analisi Matematica 1 & 2, Zanichelli, 2008 (in Italian).
  • Feynman, Feynman Lectures on Physics, 1964.
  • David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, Pearson, 2013 (4th edition).
  • Sakurai, Napolitano, Modern Quantum Mechanics, Pearson, 1985.
  • Rotondi, Pedroni, Pievatolo, Probabilità, Statistica e Simulazione, Springer, 2005 (in Italian).

Miscellaneous

Quantum community:

  • Scirate: useful platform to get an idea of the interest raised in the community by the most recent papers on arxiv.
  • Quantum Algorithm Zoo
  • QuaEC: Python library for Quantum Error Correction.

Software:

  • IPE: very useful software for preparing presentations, combining the best of Latex and of a usual keynote app. Darren Strash has a nice tutorial to get started. You can also use it as a template (just put a white rectangle onto the KIT logo). Moreover, you can switch from manual to automatic page numbering installing the ipelet pagenumbers.
  • Jabref: nice application to organise your scientific references.
  • Texstudio: Latex editor.
    Guide for Latex by Lorenzo Pantieri (in Italian).

Mixed: