25 courses · 9 tutorials
QUANTUM INFORMATION
Prof. John Preskill, Caltech
Prof. John Preskill's legendary Caltech quantum computation lecture notes. The most comprehensive freely available resource on quantum computing and quantum information.
QUBITS
Dr Steven Herbert, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge's undergraduate Quantum Computing course, with lecture notes publicly available, covering qubits, superposition, entanglement, core quantum algorithms, and quantum cryptography. Accessible at no cost.
QUANTUM CIRCUITS
Prof. Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, University of Oviedo
CERN openlab's free lecture series on quantum computing covering qubits, quantum algorithms, QAOA, VQE, and quantum machine learning. Taught by a University of Oviedo professor with no physics background required.
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Delft University of Technology (QuTech)
Learn how a quantum computer is operated: quantum algorithms, error correction, micro-architectures, compilers, quantum programming languages, and quantum internet protocols.
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CertificateDelft University of Technology (QuTech)
Begin your quantum journey with this professional certificate from Delft University of Technology. Covers qubits, quantum hardware, algorithms, error correction, and the quantum internet.
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SpecialisationPackt
A complete beginner's specialization covering quantum fundamentals, Qiskit programming, and real quantum algorithms, from high-school maths to running code on real quantum hardware.
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Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst, Eliška Greplová (QuTech, TU Delft)
Unravel the physics behind Germanium qubits, their fabrication, control, and applications, including ML-assisted auto-tuning, quantum error correction, and quantum algorithms.
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CertificateDelft University of Technology (QuTech)
The advanced follow-up to Quantum 101. Dive deeper into quantum bits, entanglement, quantum algorithms such as Shor's, and quantum error correction for fault-tolerant quantum computing, with linear algebra prerequisites.
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Christian Andersen (QuTech, TU Delft)
Learn quantum algorithms and the principles of quantum error correction for fault-tolerant quantum computing, through a full-stack overview covering both hardware and software.
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Delft University of Technology (QuTech)
Learn the fundamentals of quantum hardware and experiment with QuTech's Quantum Inspire simulators to gain hands-on experience with real quantum computing.
QUANTUM COMPUTING
CertificateMIT xPRO / Isaac Chuang, William Oliver, Peter Shor, Aram Harrow
MIT xPRO's professional certificate program in quantum computing, taught by Isaac Chuang, William Oliver, Peter Shor, and Aram Harrow. A two-course program covering quantum computing fundamentals, algorithms for cybersecurity and chemistry, and the business implications of the technology.
IBM Quantum
Free intermediate course from IBM covering Grover's search, quantum phase estimation, and the fundamentals of quantum algorithm design.
IBM Quantum
John Watrous
John Watrous's four-course video lecture series covering quantum information theory, algorithms, error correction, and the general formulation of quantum operations. Graduate-level rigor, freely available.
IonQ
IonQ Researchers
IonQ's free 4-part lecture series on quantum programming. Covers quantum algorithms, circuits, programming with multiple SDKs, and quantum chemistry including VQE. Taught by IonQ researchers.
QUANTUM COMPUTING
Keio University / Rodney Van Meter
Keio University's accessible introduction to quantum computing on FutureLearn, taught by Rodney Van Meter. Explains the motivation for building quantum computers, the key principles, important algorithms, and a look at quantum hardware and the emerging industry, with minimal mathematics.
Microsoft
Microsoft Quantum
Microsoft's free collection of self-paced quantum programming exercises in Q#. Covers quantum basics through advanced algorithms via hands-on kata-style challenges with immediate feedback, runnable in the browser.
Microsoft
Microsoft's free learning path for Azure Quantum covering Q#, quantum concepts, resource estimation, and the Azure Quantum platform.
QUANTUM ALGORITHMS
Prof. Peter Shor, MIT
MIT's graduate-level quantum computation course covering quantum algorithms, complexity theory, and quantum information. Lecture notes and problem sets freely available.
QUANTUM INFORMATION
Prof. Isaac Chuang and Prof. Peter Shor, MIT
MIT's three-part interactive course on quantum information science covering quantum mechanics, protocols, algorithms, and communication. Fully free with graded exercises on the Open Learning Library.
QUANTUM ALGORITHMS
Aleks Kissinger, Dept of Computer Science, University of Oxford
University of Oxford's computer science course on quantum processes and computation, taught with the diagrammatic ZX-calculus approach. Covers string diagrams, teleportation, quantum algorithms, and measurement-based quantum computing. Lecture notes are publicly available.
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Pramey Upadhyaya
The algorithms-and-software course closing Purdue University's Applied Quantum Computing series. Covers the quantum Fourier transform, search and Shor's algorithm, plus modern algorithms for optimization, simulation, chemistry, and machine learning, with hands-on cloud hardware access.
Qiskit
IBM Quantum / Qiskit Team
The original open-source Qiskit Textbook, now archived on GitHub, covering everything from quantum gates and basic circuits to Grover's algorithm, Shor's algorithm, quantum error correction, and quantum machine learning with interactive Jupyter notebooks.
QUANTUM ALGORITHMS
Dr. Donovan
The sequel to Quantum Computing 101. Eight modules on how quantum algorithms actually get their speedup, why real hardware fights you, and what a transpiler does to your circuit before it ever runs. Free and self-paced.
QUBITS
Qubit by Qubit instructors (Stanford PhDs)
A two-semester year-long quantum computing course by The Coding School, taught by Stanford PhDs in partnership with Google Quantum AI. Free for partner schools; scholarships available for individual students.
PennyLane
Xanadu
Xanadu's free interactive quantum computing textbook using PennyLane, now hosted as the PennyLane Codebook. Learn quantum computing through coding exercises directly in the browser.
How Grover's algorithm searches an unsorted database in √N steps, and why that matters for cryptography and optimization.
A conceptual guide to how quantum algorithms actually work: using superposition to explore many paths, interference to amplify correct answers, and measurement to extract results.
Understand the structure of quantum algorithms through state preparation, oracles, interference, and measurement, using Deutsch's algorithm as the clearest possible example.
Implement the Quantum Phase Estimation algorithm in Q# to estimate eigenvalues of unitary operators, with a worked example using the T gate.
Learn how the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm solves in a single query a problem that requires exponentially many classical queries, and implement both constant and balanced oracles in Qiskit.
How Shor's algorithm breaks RSA encryption by factoring large numbers exponentially faster than any classical computer, and what this means for cybersecurity.
Build the Quantum Fourier Transform in Cirq one rotation at a time. Verifies against the classical DFT, explains the bit reversal, and shows where the speedup actually comes from.
Understand Simon's algorithm, the first proof of exponential quantum speedup, covering the hidden period problem, quantum circuit, classical post-processing over GF(2), and a complete Qiskit implementation.
Implement the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm in Qiskit: find a hidden bit string in a single query using superposition and phase kickback, versus N queries classically.