EdX course. Meh! Just give me the YouTube list!!
But seriously, this is a valuable little list.
The course is basically exclusively about transmons.
Video 1.
The transmon qubit by Leo Di Carlo (2018)
Source. Via QuTech Academy.
Video 2.
Circuit QED by Leo Di Carlo (2018)
Source. Via QuTech Academy.
Video 3.
Measurements on transmon qubits by Niels Bultink (2018)
Source. Via QuTech Academy. I wish someone would show some actual equipment running! But this is of interest.
Video 4.
Single-qubit gate by Brian Taraskinki (2018)
Source. Good video! Basically you make a phase rotation by controlling the envelope of a pulse.
Video 5.
Two qubit gates by Adriaan Rol (2018)
Source.
Video 6.
Assembling a Quantum Processor by Leo Di Carlo (2018)
Source. Via QuTech Academy.
Everything can break everything Updated 2025-07-16
Whenever someone asks:
I can only see this one thing different our setups, do you think it could be the cause of our different behaviour?
you don't need to read anymore, just point them to this page immediately. Virtualization for the win.
Little Boy Updated 2025-07-16
Uranium-based, dropped on Hiroshima. The uranium was enriched at the Clinton Engineer Works.
SageMath Updated 2025-07-16
A Python wrapper over a bunch of numeric and computer algebra system packages to try and fully replace MATLAB et. al.
For example, their
Quickstart tutorial at: www.sagemath.org/tour-quickstart.html From this we see that they are very opinionated, you don't need to import anything, everything has a pre-defined global name, which is convenient, e.g.:
is the 3D vector space over the rationals. This also suggests that they are quite focused on computer algebra as opposed to numerical.
Cauchy boundary condition Updated 2025-07-16
Sets both a Dirichlet boundary condition and a Neumann boundary condition for a single part of the boundary.
We understand intuitively that this imposes stricter requirements on solutions, which makes it easier to guarantee uniqueness, but also harder to have existence. TODO intuitively why hyperbolic need this extra level of restriction.
If something does a quantum jump, what causes it to decide doing so at a particular time and not another? It is expected that a continuous cause would have continuous effects.
This concern was raised immediately by Rutherford while reviewing the Bohr model in 1913 as mentioned in The Quantum Story by Jim Baggott (2011) page 32.
CCP dynasty Updated 2025-07-16
Four arts Updated 2025-07-16
Four Beauties Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
A modern rendition of the four beauties
. Source. TODO we need a decent older one with CC BY-SA, and illustrating their attributes! Wikimedia failed me.
Bash (Unix shell) Updated 2025-07-16
The more heavily a project relies on it, the more you start to regret it.
Celestron NexStar Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Celestron NexStar SE Tutorial by Astronomia UK (2022)
Source. Meh! ;-)

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