Vectors and Matrices
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Packt
KAIST / Joonwoo Bae
Packt
Wolfram Research
Fractal Analytics (Srinjoy Ganguly, Shalini Devendrababu)
Hoang Quy La
Delft University of Technology (QuTech)
IBM SkillsBuild
Microsoft Quantum
Dr. Elisa Bäumer and Carmen Recio Valcarce, IBM Quantum
IBM Quantum / Qiskit Team
Dr. Donovan
Qubit by Qubit instructors (Stanford PhDs)
QWorld volunteer instructors
Xanadu
Watch the X, Y and Z gates run on a live Bloch sphere. All three are half-turns around an axis, which explains why X flips a qubit, why Z appears to do nothing, and why applying any of them twice gets you back where you started.
What each quantum gate actually does to a qubit state, with circuit diagrams and matrix forms for Hadamard, Pauli-X/Y/Z, CNOT, Toffoli, and the rotation gates.
Understand quantum gates as 2x2 unitary matrices, see the explicit matrices for X, Y, Z, H, S, and T gates, and learn how matrix multiplication corresponds to running gates sequentially.
The mathematics behind the Bloch sphere: how the angles θ and φ map to quantum state vectors, why single-qubit gates are rotations, and how to read any single-qubit state geometrically.