This repository contains a concise, math-first crash course in basic quantum mechanics for quantum computing.
It is intended for students with a strong mathematics background but only introductory exposure to quantum physics.
📄 Content covered:
- Refresher on Schrödinger equation and observables
- Dirac notation and Hilbert spaces
- Qubits as two-level systems
- Tensor product structure of multi-qubits
- Pauli matrices and operator algebra
- Unitary evolution and quantum gates
- Projective measurements
- Bloch sphere representation of qubits
- Density matrices (pure vs mixed states, partial trace, thermal states)
🎯 Exercises:
The PDF ends with a set of progressively harder exercises, ranging from normalization and Pauli algebra to Bloch sphere dynamics, density matrix purity, and partial trace.