Resources for a future in quantum computing

IBM's open-source quantum SDK, with a free textbook covering the fundamentals through to algorithms.

Xanadu's Python library for quantum machine learning and differentiable quantum programming, with an extensive tutorials library.

Google Quantum AI's Python framework for writing, simulating, and running circuits on NISQ-era hardware.

Microsoft's quantum development kit and cloud platform, built around the Q# language.

The field's primary preprint server — most new quantum computing research appears here before, or instead of, formal publication.

A community-run, open-access journal for quantum science and technology.

American Physical Society

Selective open-access journal for theoretical and experimental quantum information science.

Nature Portfolio

Open-access journal covering quantum algorithms, hardware, and networking research.

Scott Aaronson — UT Austin

A long-running, sharp and unfiltered take on computational complexity, quantum supremacy claims, and hype versus real physics.

Caltech Institute for Quantum Information and Matter

First-hand reflections on error correction, quantum information theory, and life in front-line quantum research, written by faculty and grad students.

IBM chip architects & Qiskit developers

Hardware roadmap updates, utility-scale experiments, error mitigation techniques, and transpiler development.

Xanadu photonics & PennyLane teams

Continuous-variable photonics, fault-tolerant optical architectures, and differentiable quantum programming.

Industry news, funding rounds, and company profiles across the quantum computing sector.

Tracks companies, technology approaches, and market developments across the industry.

Compare quantum computing PhD and master's programs by department focus, faculty research areas, and research centers.

National labs and applied-research institutes running active quantum computing or quantum sensing programs.

IBM

A free annual online program teaching quantum computing through lectures and hands-on labs — check current dates and registration.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

A selective 10-week paid fellowship — two weeks of advanced lectures, then eight weeks of mentored research on real quantum hardware (Quantinuum, IBM, QuEra, D-Wave).

Fermilab — Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center

A 2-week hands-on school for upper-level undergrads through postdocs, covering superconducting qubits, quantum sensing, and hardware execution.

U.S. Department of Energy

The five DOE quantum centers — QSA (Berkeley Lab), Q-NEXT (Argonne), SQMS (Fermilab), C2QA (Brookhaven), and QSC (Oak Ridge) — run summer research positions and graduate internships in quantum software, control, and compilation.

Q&A for quantum theory, algorithms, and implementation questions.

A nonprofit supporting open-source quantum software and the broader community around it.

Runs a mentorship program and maintains a directory of open-source quantum software projects to contribute to.