Lectures and Lecture Notes

If you are interested in a gentle introduction to quantum information science for beginning undergraduate students, you may wish to view some of the videos available under the videos link in the main menu of this website.   For absolute beginners, my public lecture, “The Second Quantum Revolution and the Race to Build ‘Impossible’ Computers,” is a good starting point.

If you are comfortable with linear algebra, you may also want study the lecture notes from my undergraduate class PHYS 3450 ‘Introduction to Quantum Information, Computation, and Communication.’   

Another useful resource is the online textbook developed for Qiskit:

https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html

You can begin programming quantum computers even without learning the Qiskit language, just using a graphical interface:

https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/

Students in my courses PHYS 3450 have done their quantum programming assignments on this system.

Once you have some more expertise, you may be interested in  the current grand challenge in the field: quantum error correction and fault-tolerance.  Here is a video on a basic introduction to quantum error correction.

The Yale Quantum Institute website is here: https://quantuminstitute.yale.edu/

Here are the PHYS 3450 lecture notes from 2026: Introduction to Quantum Information, Computation and Communications. 

For those interested in becoming experts in circuit QED and superconducting qubits here are my lecture notes (150 pages) from the 2011 Les Houches Summer School

and here are my 2019 Les Houches lecture notes on quantum error correction and fault tolerance.