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Interested in what quantum computing is? Ramis Movassagh explains the basics of quantum, some applications to finance, why it is a hard problem to solve, and ways to learn more about it.

Ramis is an applied mathematician and a theoretical physicist who researches quantum computation and information theory, and quantum cryptography and complexity. He does an amazing job at laying out some of the basic ideas of quantum mechanics.

Ramis' Links:

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramis-movassagh-33465717/

Website and Blog:
https://ramismovassagh.wordpress.com/
https://ramismovassagh.wordpress.com/blog

X handle:
@Ramis_Movassagh

Quantum supremacy paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02131-2

PDF for those behind the paywall:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02131-2.epdf?sharing_token=oYgyql7M-nUPNwLJ4F2Q_tRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M5gli-apQIlZ1xThgS5KRp3t28rkad24bSeQ-gRMhmOaNP232U_FZZQjPrseDCTdXIRryTWL339snJllwZAjuD5PMkLKij96GMA_OniVnTz5JjaARH0qW5OV-AKwZr4VI%3D

Press coverage:
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-difficulty-simulating-random-quantum-circuits.html

https://communities.springernature.com/posts/the-quest-for-quantum-primacy

Quantum Merkle Trees:
https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2024-06-18-1380/

IBM's "Basics of Quantum Information":
https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/learning/en/courses/basics-of-quantum-information

John Preskill from CalTech:
https://www.preskill.caltech.edu/

MIT "Quantum Computing":
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-435j-quantum-computation-fall-2003/

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