Write Your First Quantum Program (Common Lisp)
Hello! PhD student on quantum computing here. While it&#x27;s cool that the field of QC raises excitement and there are efforts to promote QC to a more general public, it&#x27;s always a little frustrating to see these approaches that, in a sense (and in my opinion), seriously underplay the difficulty and distance of the field from computer engineering. While it&#x27;s true that it&#x27;s an incredibly interdisciplinary field, which can be studied from a Physics, CompSci, EE, etc., perspective, it&#x27;s definitely its own field, and not a new framework or programming language. I think this reflects heavily on the fact that a lot of QC programming languages peddled by the main industry players hide <i>a lot</i> of stuff behind opaque API calls.<p>The thing is (again, imho!) it wouldn&#x27;t have made sense to talk about frameworks when the first classical computers appeared --- and you&#x27;d better have knowledge about the hardware and theory. (These are still a good idea to know but not really a requirement anymore.)<p>Likewise, I think that for the next decades, anyone who wants to meaningfully contribute to QC (rather than call a few API functions) will have to read some technical stuff (my recommendations are [1] as a semi-informal approach, [2] for a CS approach, [3] for an algorithm overview, and [4] as <i>the</i> reference book).<p>Sorry for the minor rant :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;catalogue&#x2F;catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107302105" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;catalogue&#x2F;catalogue.asp?isbn=97811...</a><p>[2] Ethan Bernstein, &amp; Umesh Vazirani (1997). Quantum Complexity TheorySIAM Journal on Computing, 26(5), 1411–1473.<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.springer.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;book&#x2F;9783030190651" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.springer.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;book&#x2F;9783030190651</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;pt&#x2F;academic&#x2F;subjects&#x2F;physics&#x2F;quantum-physics-quantum-information-and-quantum-computation&#x2F;quantum-computation-and-quantum-information-10th-anniversary-edition?format=HB&amp;isbn=9781107002173" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;pt&#x2F;academic&#x2F;subjects&#x2F;physics&#x2F;quant...</a>