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

Quantum compiling

• https://medium.com/qiskit/improving-a-quantum-compiler-48410d7a7084
• UniversalQCompiler, a Mathematica package
• To explore how machine learning can be used in quantum compilers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.04743.pdf

Universal gate sets

• NC Chapter 4
• A quantum engineer’s guide to superconducting qubits, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.06560.pdf

Universal discrete sets

• NC Chapter 4

Encoding functions into unitaries

• NC Chapter 5

Quantum parallelism

• NC Chapter 5

How to build a qubit

• For more information on NV centers see: https://qt.eu/discover-quantum/underlying-principles/nv-centers/ and https://qutech.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Diamond-NV-centers-for-quantum-computing-and-quantum-networks.pdf
• Trapped ions: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4368
• Spin qubits: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610433 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5202
• Superconducting qubits: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06560 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13641

Electron spin qubits

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4481
• https://qutech.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2004_09_01419211.pdf

Capturing a single electron

• https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9701055

Quantum dot qubits

• See the original publication about the Loss-diVincenzo qubit here: https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.57.120

Quantum control and readout

• For more information about operations on spin qubits see the textbox “How to initialize, manipulate, and read out a spin qubit” here  https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.4270

Microwave drivers for qubits

• For more information on the study of the accuracy of the parameters see https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06176

Implementation of microwave drivers

• For more details about frequency-multiplexed control of qubits see: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14185 
• For more details about Horse Ridge see: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9209175

Qubit errors

• For a quantitative example of decoherence time see section “Relaxation and decoherence” here: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.4270
• An example of more sophisticated pulse schemes can be found in: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/336/6078/202