A reader named Lewis K. wrote in to ask for a “brief list of required reading for someone with a normal CS degree under his belt who wants to be taken to the research front in quantum complexity.” Alright then:<\/p>\n
[Deutsch]<\/a> [Bernstein-Vazirani]<\/a> [BBBV]<\/a> [Simon]<\/a> [Shor]<\/a> [Grover]<\/a> [BBHT]<\/a> [BBCMW]<\/a> [Ambainis]<\/a> [Watrous]<\/a> [ANTV]<\/a> [Fortnow-Rogers]<\/a> [Abrams-Lloyd]<\/a> [Childs et al.]<\/a> [DMV]<\/a> [EHK]<\/a> [BJK]<\/a> [Gottesman]<\/a> [KKR]<\/a> [Marriott-Watrous]<\/a><\/p>\n (Sprinkle in some textbooks<\/a>, survey<\/a> articles<\/a>, and course<\/a> lecture<\/a> notes<\/a> to taste.)<\/p>\n Commenters will boil me alive for leaving out huge swaths of the field, and they’ll be right. I’ve merely listed some papers that had a definite impact on how I, personally, attack problems. But hey, I’m the one you asked. So print ’em out, take ’em to the toilet, and sit there for a long time. When you’re finished, you won’t be at the “research front” — for that you obviously have to read my papers<\/a> — but hopefully you’ll have seen enough to visit the big bad arXiv<\/a> on your own. Happy Hadamards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A reader named Lewis K. wrote in to ask for a “brief list of required reading for someone with a normal CS degree under his belt who wants to be taken to the research front in quantum complexity.” Alright then: [Deutsch] [Bernstein-Vazirani] [BBBV] [Simon] [Shor] [Grover] [BBHT] [BBCMW] [Ambainis] [Watrous] [ANTV] [Fortnow-Rogers] [Abrams-Lloyd] [Childs et […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}