QC — Quantum Computing Series

Jonathan Hui
3 min readJan 17, 2019

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Photo by Fractal Hassan

This series covers the basic of quantum computing. The first 2 articles introduce the basic concept followed by the most popular approaches on how to build it. Then we dig deeper into the quantum operations (gates) — the instruction sets of quantum computing. We will look into its strength but also the weakness — without that, we will likely overhype the topic without a deeper understanding. Next, we start learning some basic quantum algorithms and close it with the Shor’s algorithm — a showcase for the real-life application.

It is a slight detour from what I mainly do professionally but hopes that it shows you some of the leading research areas in computing beyond buzzwords. Have fun!

Introduction

Realization of a quantum computer

Quantum computing (quantum gates)

Quantum Algorithm

Shor’s Algorithm

Others

Credit and references

Polynomial-time algorithms for prime factorization and discrete logarithms on a quantum computer

Simulating Physics with Computers

Grover’s Algorithm

Rapid solutions of problems by quantum computation

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

USC Introduction to Quantum Information Processing

IBM Q Experience Documentation

An Introduction to Quantum Algorithms

University of Cambridge: Quantum Computing

The Role of Interference and Entanglement in Quantum Computing

Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners

Shor’s Algorithm

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