What is a good video resource for quantum computing?

Question

Can anyone refer me to a good video resource for quantum computing? I found this post helpful Currently, what are the best structured courses available online on quantum computing?, but Vazirani's youtube course has many videos deleted.

Answer 1

Artur Ekert is in the process of posting video lectures from his course in Oxford.... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkespgaZN4gmu0nWNmfMflVRqw0VPkCGH

Answer 2

John Preskill posted his lectures from the first term of Quantum Computing course, Ph/CS 219A Quantum Computation, at CalTech here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ojjrEqIyPy-1RRD8cTD_lF1hflo89Iu

Answer 3

Ryan O'Donnell recorded a semester of lectures (mostly on a chalkboard) at Carnegie Mellon.

Sevag Gharibian has an introductory course as well as an intermediate/advanced course from the Paderborn University here; these I believe were recorded on his webcam for uploading to Paderborn's students initially and then to YouTube later.

Answer 4

Nathan Wiebe lectures cover the more recent quantum algorithms such as QSVT and Qubitization in addition to the standard material.

Answer 5

The IBM team has put together a baller series of video lectures by John Watrous, available for free on YouTube, beginning here and ending with fault tolerance here.

Answer 6

• Quantum Error Correction by Dr. Gottesman. This can be supplemented with his accompanying book.
• Quantum Information Review by Dr. Gottesman. A broader overview that’s helpful for context.
• Introduction to Quantum Information Processing by Dr. Richard Cleve at IQC. These videos are great for beginners as they start from the very basics.
• Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance by Dr. Debbie Leung and Dr. Michael Vasmer at IQC.
• Theory of Quantum Communication by Dr. Debbie Leung at IQC.
• Quantum Information by Dr. Eduardo Martin-Martinez at Perimeter Institute.

Note: I’ve linked to course or overview pages that include video links, as these often include additional materials like lecture notes and assignments.

Answer 7

Richard Cleve's graduate course on quantum computing at the University of Waterloo is available on YouTube. This is a required course for all students in the collaborative quantum information graduate program.

Answer 8

Here are a few excellent full-course resources on quantum computing that haven’t been mentioned yet:

Lectures on Quantum Computation – David Deutsch
Classic series from one of the founding figures of quantum computing. A bit dated, but foundational.

Quantum Computation – Umesh Vazirani
A comprehensive UC Berkeley lecture series on YouTube by another quantum pioneer.

Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Hardware – IBM Qiskit
Great for getting hands-on with quantum programming and real quantum hardware using Qiskit.

Also, 3blue1brown just released a beautifully intuitive video on Grover’s Algorithm.

Answer 9

• The SandboxAQ team put up a series of podcasts that they called "fAQs", hosted by Adam Greene and Tai-Danae Bradley. This is a very gentle introduction to quantum computing especially from the perspective of how they would work in the real world, presented as a conversation between Greene and Bradley and sometimes others. They organized the topics around DiVincenzo's criteria, with one podcast focusing on one of the criteria, another on another one, etc. Although it's a nice video series, it's also a good audio podcast.

• In addition to his older lecture series at CMU, O'Donnell has posted his series on "Quantum Computer Programming in 100 Easy Lessons" beginning here he recently gave to his CMU students. It's also very gentle; O'Donnell made some conscious pedagogical choices such as (mostly) avoiding imaginary numbers and (mostly) working around the square-root-of-two, that are somewhat nonstandard. It's more of a video series/less of a podcast.

• Mithuna Yoganathan has a great "Looking Glass Universe" YouTube channel - she has a wonderful video where she gives some honesty about an important result she got about the strengths and weaknesses of the One Clean Qubit model. Her earlier videos were somewhat scripted and kind of fun paper-cutouts but lately she's been doing a lot of experiments with toy lasers and crystals. The videos aren't organized in any order, but they are all really good and worth watching.

• The 632 nm podcast team has scored a number of interviews with some OG's in the field, including Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller who, not long after Shor94, described the first viable two-qubit gate quantum gate, Seth Lloyd who, among other things, had some pre-Shor94 ideas on quantum computing, Misha Lukin who is a leader in neutral atom technology, and Christopher Monroe who founded IonQ. I also really liked their honest interview with Yudong Cao on the initial successes and serious challenges faced by Zapata Computing. You won't learn how quantum computers work after these videos but you'll get a pretty good insight into the minds of some of these early researchers. These could also be a podcast (video is mostly not required).

• Diego Serrano began a series on quantum computing recently titled Quantum Computing using Python & Qiskit. Each video is only 10-20 minutes long or thereabouts, and so far looks really good!

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• More on the technical side I learned a lot myself from a series of lectures, on blackboard, presented at the Israeli Institute of Advanced Studies. See the first video here. Dorit Aharanov and others managed to get a number of luminaries including Sergey Bravyi, Thomas Vidick, and Sandy Irani to present on a number of more advanced topics in the field.

• The QIP team posts many lectures online - Robin Kothari's 2024 series on a Quantum Computing Toolkit stands out. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. He's a fun presenter, although the presentation assumes that the student knows at least some of how quantum computers work.

• Speaking of QIP, at QIP2023 Ignacio Cirac also gave a great blackboard lecture on Hamiltonian Simulation. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.

• Another series that I just recently found is from the Quantum Information Theory Group of the Leibniz University in Hanover - Prof. Dr. Robert Raußendorf's series on Models of Quantum Computation looks stellar (although not as introductory as some of the above).

Answer 10

For introductions to quantum complexity theory:

Quantum Complexity Theory - John Watrous

Is a set of two videos that discuss basics of complexity theory, relations between classes and covers a few example. (This is well accompanied by Watrous’ notes)

Quantum Complexity Theory - Sevag Gharibian

Is a great resource with 11 lectures covering a decent amount of material to get a good feel for quantum complexity theory. It covers important ideas like strong amplification and interesting physical problems that are complete for certain classes.

Quantum Complexity - Leonard Susskind

I found Susskind’s lectures on complexity theory to be a refreshing perspective on the matter. Susskind understands physics in a unique way, and communicates the ideas using simple ideas. It is good to get alternate viewpoints on these complicated concepts. Note that this video is not in the same vein as the previous two suggestions, but definitely worth it.

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I recently found Crash Course in Tensor Networks from Zeph Landau to be a great video on tensor networks.

Many other Simons Institute videos are excellent resources for specific topics. I highly recommend!

Answer 11

https://learning.quantum.ibm.com/ has multiple lessons, each with accompanying videos