21 videos, which cover subjects including the basic model of quantum computing, entanglement, superdense coding, and quantum teleportation.
To work through the videos you need to be comfortable with basic linear algebra, and with assimilating new mathematical terminology. If you’re not, working through the videos will be arduous at best! Apart from that background, the main prerequisite is determination, and the willingness to work more than once over material you don’t fully understand.
In particular, you don’t need a background in quantum mechanics to follow the videos.
The videos are short, from 5-15 minutes, and each video focuses on explaining one main concept from quantum mechanics or quantum computing. In taking this approach I was inspired by the excellent Khan Academy.
Quantum computing for the determined (Link)
Link: michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-determined/
Author: Michael Nielsen
The basics
The qubit
Tips for working with qubits
Our first quantum gate: the quantum NOT gate
The Hadamard gate
Measuring a qubit
General single-qubit gates
Why unitaries are the only matrices which preserve length
Examples of single-qubit quantum gates
The controlled-NOT gate
Universal quantum computation
Superdense coding
Superdense coding: how to send two bits using one qubit
Preparing the Bell state
What’s so special about entangled states anyway?
Distinguishing quantum states
Superdense coding redux: putting it all together
Quantum teleportation
Partial measurements
Partial measurements in an arbitrary basis
Quantum teleportation
Quantum teleportation: discussion
The postulates of quantum mechanics (TBC)
The postulates of quantum mechanics I: states and state space
The postulates of quantum mechanics II: dynamics
The postulates of quantum mechanics III: measurement