Our #QuantumCommuncations #QuantumInternet textbook is ready for release! Just some minor cleanup on the repository before we submit to the arXiv.
...aaaand we're fighting with arXiv's strict and quirky file naming and LaTeX execution. Hold your horses...
And it's done! Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your enemies!
#QuantumCommunications #QuantumInternet #QuantumComputing our textbook is now available. Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02367
@rdviii I'm really happy to see that this is released under Creative Commons with openness to further contributions.
I suggested it to a computer scientist I know who has been trying to become more familiar with quantum computation and related topics (but doesn't have the deeper background with quantum mechanics and related mathematical methods presupposed by many sources).
@internic I really, truly believe you need almost zero quantum mechanics to learn quantum computation. if you want to study the hardware, you do, but not if your goal is to understand principles and algorithms.
@rdviii Like many (or most) physicists, I learned quantum mechanics from a background of understanding classical particle and wave mechanics and then quantum computation etc. from there. It always seemed like you didn't need all that baggage to understand quantum computing in the abstract (as you say, understanding the hardware or quantum information topics involving continuous variables is a different matter). My problem was always getting past how *I* learned it to see how else *one could* learn it.
To me, the biggest question was how to lead the students to develop an intuition for the physical meaning of quantum phase and superposition and non-commuting variables beyond the pure mathematics. I could never see a good way to do that except via at least a bit of wave mechanics, but I haven't had a chance to read your book closely enough to see how you skinned that particular (Schrödinger's) cat.
