The Most Important Step to Understand Quantum Computing.- First Impression.- Basis, Basis Vectors, and Inner Product.- Orthonormal Basis, Bra-Ket Notation, and Measurement.- Changing Basis, Uncertainty Principle, and Bra-ket Operations.- Observables, Operators, Eigenvectors, and Eigenvalues.- Pauli Spin Matrices, Adjoint Matrix, and Hermitian Matrix.- Operator Rules, Real Eigenvalues, and Projection Operator.- Eigenvalue and Matrix Diagonalization; Unitary Matrix.- Unitary Transformation, Completeness, and Construction of Operator.- Hilbert Space, Tensor Product, and Multi-Qubit.- Tensor Product of Operators, Partial Measurement, and Matrix Representation in a Given Basis.- Quantum Register and Data Processing, Entanglement and the Bell States.- Concepts Review, Density Matrix, and Entanglement Entropy.- Quantum Gate Introduction; NOT and C-NOT Gates.- SWAP, Phase Shift and CC-NOT (Toffoli) Gates.- Walsh-Hadamard Gate and its Properties.- 13 more chapters.
