Reference Guide for Quantum Computing

Reference Guide for Quantum Computing, a Microsoft Garage project, is a hands-on introduction to quantum computing. This project is an opensource book that enables anyone to explore the fundamental concepts in quantum computing and learn how to program with Q#.

The project team created this open book to make quantum computing more accessible and easier to learn. The team hopes to repeat the success of open-source tutorials that help democratize hardware electronics and software programming. The goal is to give learners of this subject an easy way to get started with the basic concepts and hands-on programing for quantum computers. The book combines physics, math, hardware, and software to provide a comprehensive picture in three phases:

• Phase 1 introduces the basics, including the basic linear algebra, quantum states and quantum circuit diagrams
• Phase 2 will use the concepts from Phase 1 to build the algorithms that are central to quantum computing
• Phase 3 covers the real-world applications of quantum computing, along with a description of the latest hardware architectures being proposed to realize the vision of scalable quantum computing

 

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