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1) THE THINKING MACHINE
Feynman and the Thinking Machine
The Feynman Lectures on Computation
The classical computer
2) THE QUANTUM STATE (OF MIND)
The new worldview of quantum mechanics
The quantum state
The superposition state
Quantum mechanics is not "strange"
Dirac notation
3) THE SCHRODINGER EQUATION
The life and loves of Erwin Schrodinger
The Schrodinger equation
The equation for a single particle
The complete predictability of quantum mechanics
4) OBSERVING A QUANTUM SYSTEM
Calculating eigenvectors and eigenvalues
Energy levels of an electron
5) COMPLEX NUMBERS
The phase of Hilbert space
6) DECOHERENCE
Environmental decoherence
The coldest place in the universe
The race against time
7) THE QUBIT
The physical implementation of qubits
The Bloch sphere
Entanglement
8) THE IBM Q EXPERIENCE
X: The bit-flip gate
H: The Hadamard gate
Gates which modify phase
9) MULTIPLE-QUBIT QUANTUM GATES
Boolean logic
Reversible computing
The CNOT gate
The Toffoli gate is your friend
Copying a qubit
Entanglement and the CNOT gate
10) QUANTUM ALGORITHMS
From bits to qubits
The inverse problem
Shor's algorithm
The challenge of writing a quantum algorithm
11) GROVER'S ALGORITHM
The Oracle
Inversion around the average
Programming a real quantum algorithm on a real quantum computer
Some final thoughts
APPENDIX ONE: THE ORACLE
APPENDIX TWO: ROTATION AROUND THE AVERAGE
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