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1.3.1 Recommended Readings for Working with Single Qubits

Course subject(s) Module 1: Working with Single Qubits

NC: M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang, Quantum computation and quantum information, 10th anniversary ed. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

The Born rule

Measurement operators

  • For a more advanced view on measurement operators see section 1.8 and 1.9 in N. D. Mermin, ‘Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction’ and section 2.2.3 of NC

The Bloch sphere

Expectation values

  • NC pgs. 70-72, 609

No-cloning theorem

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