In this latest episode of Code For Thought, SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt meets with Oliver Brown from the Edinburgh Parallel Computer Centre (EPCC), where he leads a quantum applications group, to discuss Quantum Computing and try to look behind the hype around it.

For further information about the subject:

• 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.
• 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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