This episode is about Quantum Computing and trying to look behind the hype around it. Helping me with that is Oliver Brown from the Edinburgh Parallel Computer Centre (EPCC), where he leads a quantum applications group.

There is plenty of material on the subject out there. Here are some links, also mentioned in the episode:

• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
  Textbook by Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen
  ISBN: 978-1-107-00217-3
• https://qiskit.org  An open source toolkit and resource for Quantum Computing including tutorials etc
• https://learn.qiskit.org/course/ch-algorithms/quantum-fourier-transform Quantum Fourier Transform
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate Gates in Quantum Computing
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_gate "Classical" gates
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_qubit Qubits and phases
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem The no-cloning theorem
• Shor's algorithm
  • https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/docs/iqx/guide/shors-algorithm an article on Shor's algorithm by IBM
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm summary of Shor's algorithm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational_quantum_eigensolver Variational Eigensolver in quantum computing
• https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/quantum-advantage-in-learning-from.html Quantum advantage
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05176 a paper on the subject

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