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Gentle introduction to quantum simulation using superconducting circuits:

• Alex’s IQUIST seminar talk (2024)

• Alex’s Purdue Physics Colloquium talk (2020)

• The ABC of cQED: A Nature Physics Special Issue (2020)

• Nature Physics Insight – Quantum Simulation (2012)

Introductory (but technical) materials for circuit QED:

• Tutorial webinars: A practical guide to superconducting qubit experiments (C2QA QIS 302)

• Practical Guide for Building Superconducting Quantum Devices (PRX 2021)

• David Schuster’s PhD thesis.

• M. Naghiloo, “Introduction to Experimental Quantum Measurement with Superconducting Qubits”. PhD Dissertation (2019).

A must-read for anyone who wants to succeed in research:

• Carl Wieman, “How to become a successful physicist”. (Physics Today 2022)

Great online seminar series in Quantum Information Sciences:

• Virtual AMO Seminar - link to YouTube recordings

• Quantum Science Seminar - link to YouTube channel

• Virtual Science Forum: Long Range Colloquium - CM and QIS

• IBM QisKit QIS Seminar Series - see also the other Qiskit video/tutorial series in the channel

• Seminars at Center for Quantum Technologies, Singapore: YouTube channel

• Harvard ITAMP workshops - Youtube channel, list of past workshops (usually with link to recordings) - e.g. the recent 2019 ITAMP winter school on Quantum Many-body Physics: lecture recordings. Many other workshops at the frontiers of AMO/QIS theory.

• KITP@UCSB - most programs are recorded, see listings here; e.g. some recent programs: “Topological Quantum Matter: Concepts and Realizations”, “Open Quantum System Dynamics: Quantum Simulators and Simulations Far From Equilibrium”, “The Dynamics of Quantum Information”, “Thermodynamics of quantum systems: Measurement, engines, and control“, “Synthetic Quantum Matter“, “Many-body Localization“, “Many-Body Physics with Light“, …

• Quarantine Thermo - seminars on quantum thermodynamics organized by QuSys at TCD

Gentle introductions to Quantum Computing:

• Quantum computing for the very curious - by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen

• Quantum mechanics for everyone @ edX - by James Freericks

• Quantum Technology: Computing @ edX - PurdueX MicroMasters program

Modern resources for learning QIS:

• Learn Quantum Computation using Qiskit - interactive introductory QC textbook by IBM

• Lectures on scientific computing with Python; Lectures on QuTiP; other resources by J. R. Johansson

• A wonderful curated list of educational resources for QIS by the Quantum Computing Report

K-12 education :

• QuanTime at the National Q-12 Education Partnership

Other fun channels :

• The Signal Path - great videos on microwave engineering / equipment testing