Resources

Books Ranked from Beginner to Advanced

1. Gamow, G. Mr. Tompkins in Paperback. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

2. Hey, A., & Walters, P. The New Quantum Universe. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

3. Susskind, L., & Friedman, A. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. Basic Books, 2014.

4. Griffiths, D. J., & Schroeter, D. F. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press, 2018.

5. Vidick, T., & Wehner, S. Introduction to Quantum Cryptography. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

6. Nielsen, M. A., & Chuang, I. L. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Free Courses

1. Allan Adams – MIT Quantum Physics I Lectures

2. Richard Feynman – The Feynman Lectures on Physics

3. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Playlist (3Blue1Brown)

Papers

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)

1. Lu, C.-Y., Cao, Y., Peng, C.-Z., & Pan, J.-W. (2022). Micius quantum experiments in space. Nature, 600(7890), 46–51.

2. C.H. Bennett and G. Brassard, Proceedings IEEE Int. Conf. on Computers, Systems and Signal Processing, Bangalore, India (IEEE, New York, 1984), pp. 175-179. (BB84 protocol).

3. A. Ekert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 661 (1991). (E91 protocol, entanglement-based QKD).

4. G. Brassard, N. Lutkenhaus, T. Mor, and B. C. Sanders, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1330 (2000). (Security of QKD).

5. V. Scarani, A. Acín, G. Ribordy, and N. Gisin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 057901 (2004). (Decoy-state protocol, robust against photon. number splitting attacks).

6. W.-Y. Hwang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 057901 (2003). (Decoy-state QKD to counter PNS attacks).

Quantum Teleportation

1. C. H. Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crepeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres, and W. K. Wootters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1895 (1993). (Quantum teleportation).

Entanglement-based Communication & Cryptography

1. L. Goldenberg and L. Vaidman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1239 (1995). (Quantum cryptography without entanglement).

2. H.-J. Briegel, W. Dür, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5932 (1998). (Quantum repeaters for long-distance quantum communication).

3. M. Zukowski, A. Zeilinger, M. A. Horne, and A. K. Ekert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 4287 (1993). (Entanglement swapping, a key technique for quantum networks).