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Here's Scott Aaronson's answer to a similar question on his blog a couple of weeks ago: Yes, Nielsen and Chuang is the standard textbook for quantum computing;
by gjm11 11y ago
Here's Scott Aaronson's answer to a similar question on his blog a couple of weeks ago:
Yes, Nielsen and Chuang is the standard textbook for quantum computing; it’s excellent (even though 16 years old by now). If you wanted to start with something shorter and more introductory, you could try David Mermin’s “Introduction to Quantum Computer Science.”
- anukulrm 11y agoGreat, thanks! I'll check those out.
- dmmckay 11y agoLipton wrote a pretty decent and short intro to QC that builds the theory a little differently from usual. It is aimed more towards Mathematicians and Computer Scientists than Physicists, I believe, but I think it is pretty understandable in general. I think Sipser is probably the best introduction to Computation if you do not have a background in Computability and Complexity. Arora and Barak's text has a much larger breadth and is much more detailed as far as Complexity goes. It is the more appropriate of the two if you are just interested in Computational Complexity.