3 Best Quantum Computing Books I Highly Recommend for Beginners

Quantum Computing from Zero to Hero

Rushabh Mukeshbhai Doshi
ILLUMINATION
3 min readFeb 7, 2022

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The computers that we currently use are termed Classical Computers. Classical Computers operate on Classical Physics based on Newton’s Laws.

While Quantum Physics is considered to be Modern Physics.

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Quantum Computers are based on the principles of Quantum Mechanics or Quantum Physics.

Quantum Computers are considered to be the next big thing in the field of computing.

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Classical Computers are about to reach the peak of their performance. As per Morre’s Law the number of transistors in a chip almost doubles every two years, and because of this miniaturization has reached its limit.

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Quantum Computers in its original avatar is quite fast and offers fascinating prospects in some of the case studies compared to Classical Computers.

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With the help of Quantum Physics properties such as Superposition and Entanglement, the level of parallel computations that can be achieved with just a few qubits(Quantum bits) is phenomenal.

Quantum Computing provides excellent breakthroughs in the field of Unstructured Search.

Even it has the potential to break RSA encryption with its much famous Shor’s Algorithm.

Now, most Quantum enthusiasts have the question that from where exactly they can start learning Quantum Computing without any knowledge of Quantum Physics or Advanced Mathematics.

How one can be from zero to hero in Quantum Computing?

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Here I would recommend 3 excellent books to get started with Quantum Computing:

Hands-on Quantum Machine Learning with Python

This book will become your best friend in no time.

This book makes quantum terminologies extremely easy to understand with day to day examples.

Has a fair bit of coding examples.

This book would be a great starting point to even know about Quantum Machine Learning.

Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach

This book introduces you to the world of Quantum Computing in Baby Steps.

This book will get started with some math behind Quantum Computing with the introduction to basic gates. Then will introduce you to the circuits and finally how the advanced algorithms can be implemented.

The author of this book Jack D. Hidary is a research scientist in Quantum Computing.

Learn Quantum Computing with Python and IBM Quantum Experience

This book will introduce you to IBM’s Qiskit Library.

One can understand the quantum terminologies hand in hand with the practical guide on Qiskit.

This book has excellent examples using state of the art python-based qiskit library.

And how to use IBM’s Quantum Computer on Cloud and simulate and run the examples locally to get a good feel about Quantum Experience.

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