Introduction to Quantum Computing

Lecture notes for the summer term 2025

Welcome

These are the lecture notes for the “Introduction to Quantum Computing” lecture held by Dominique Unruh at RWTH Aachen in the summer term 2025. They should be viewed as an addition to the handwritten notes and the lecture recordings.

If you prefer a .pdf file, there is a download available at the top left corner.

If you spot an error, please report them via Gitlab. If you have a question of understanding, please ask it in the Moodle forum.

These lecture notes are released under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

The Jupyter notebooks created during the lectures can be found in the JupyterHub in the course “[IQC] Introduction to Quantum Computing” or in Moodle. If changes are made to the files, they can be easily reset with the usual git commands using “Git” and then “Open Git Repository in Terminal”.