PickVidsBest Quantum computing Videos
The 11 Quantum computing videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 3 intermediate, 5 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include PBS Infinite Series, Microsoft Research, media.ccc.de.
Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists
An 88-minute Microsoft Research talk that explains how quantum computers beat classical ones using basic linear algebra, qubits, superposition and gates.
The Mathematics of Quantum Computers | Infinite Series
A PBS Infinite Series episode explaining the mathematics of quantum computers, including how qubits store complex numbers and how quantum computation differs from classical computation.
35C3 - The year in post-quantum crypto
Daniel J.
How Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained
MinutePhysics explains Shor's algorithm, showing how a quantum computer factors large integers by finding the period of a number modulo N.
Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm | Infinite Series
PBS Infinite Series explains how Shor's algorithm lets a quantum computer break RSA encryption, building on earlier episodes about cryptography and the math of quantum computers.
Quantum Expert Insight: Peter Shor
Peter Shor tells the story of how he discovered Shor's Algorithm, from his early mathematics days to the quantum factoring breakthrough.
Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
IBM's Dr.
Lisp at the Frontier of Computation, by Robert Smith at Rigetti Computing
Robert Smith of Rigetti Computing talks at a Bay Area Lisp and Scheme meetup about using Common Lisp for quantum computing.
How Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole in a Quantum Computer
Quanta Magazine explains the 2022 experiment that claimed to create a holographic wormhole on Google's quantum computer.
Google and NASA's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
A short Google video introducing the Quantum AI Lab, a partnership between Google, NASA, USRA and a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer.
Quantum Computing and Bitcoin (Vitalik Buterin, November 2013)
A 2013 lecture in which Vitalik Buterin explains what quantum computers are and what they can and cannot do.