Quantum Information Science

Riccardo Manenti earned his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2017 with a thesis investigating the coupling between a superconducting qubit and a mechanical oscillator based on surface acoustic waves. His research contributed to the formation of a new research field, now called circuit quantum acousto-dynamics. He is currently a Senior Quantum Engineer at Rigetti Computing, a quantum computing company based in Berkeley, California.Mario Motta earned his Ph.D. at the University of Milano in 2015 with a thesis on quantum Monte Carlo simulation of fermionic systems. After postdoctoral positions at the College of William and Mary and the California Institute of Technology, he became a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center in 2019.

Manenti and Motta provide a tour-de-force of quantum information science. This is the first textbook that I have seen that comprehensively begins with mathematics, moves on to quantum physics, and via quantum algorithms ends up in the discussion of hardware implementations. With detailed explanations, modern references, and further reading tips this book is poised to become one of the classics in every quantum information scientist's bookshelf

• PART I - FOUNDATIONS 1: Mathematical tools 2: Computational models 3: Linear algebra 4: Quantum mechanics 5: Quantum circuits PART II - MODERN QUANTUM MECHANICS 6: Density operators 7: Quantum maps 8: Decoherence PART III - APPLICATIONS 9: Entanglement 10: Early quantum algorithms 11: Quantum simulation of Hamiltonian dynamics 12: Quantum simulation of Hamiltonian eigenstates PART IV - QUANTUM ENGINEERING OF SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES 13: Microwave resonators for superconducting devices 14: Superconducting qubits Appendix A: The rotating wave approximation Appendix B: Advanced quantum mechanics Appendix C: The quantum Fourier transform Appendix D: The molecular Hamiltonian in second quantization