MIT 8.06 Quantum Physics III, Spring 2018 by Barton Zwiebach by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-02-26 +Created 1970-01-01
100 10-20 minute videos properly split by topic, good resource!
Instructor: Barton Zwiebach.
Free material from university courses:
- physics.weber.edu/schroeder/quantum/QuantumBook.pdf (archive) "Notes on Quantum Mechanics" pusbliehd by Daniel V. Schroeder (2019) The author is from from Weber State University.
IBM 2017 beryllium hydride ground state calculation on a quantum computer by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-02-26 +Created 1970-01-01
TODO what's the largest molecule done on a classical computer?
- www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/09/quantum-molecule/
- www.nature.com/articles/nature23879 "Hardware-efficient variational quantum eigensolver for small molecules and quantum magnets"
- www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/quantum-computer-simulates-largest-molecule-yet-sparking-hope-future-drug-discoveries
In the context of quantum computing of the 2020's, a "classical computer" is a computer that is not "quantum", i.e., the then dominating CMOS computers.
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtnsHtYYKf0 "Mercury and Relativity - Periodic Table of Videos" by a
Gravity and electricity by Hermann Weyl (1918) by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-02-26 +Created 1970-01-01
Published on the session reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences at Berlin 1918 page 464.
Is about Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime, and notably introduces gauge theory.
Viewable for free at: archive.org/details/mobot31753002089727/page/464/mode/2up.
These people are heroes. There's nothing else to say.
Mostly data driven.
My brother, Richard: How he came to be so smart interview with Joan Feynman by Web of Stories (2019)
Source. Ah, shame to see Joan so old. Some good stories. The tiles game thing was not mentioned in Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick (1994) I think. Unlisted articles are being shown, click here to show only listed articles.