Research Papers
Foundational and modern research papers in quantum computing and quantum mechanics — 20 landmark papers spanning 1969 to 2023.
Simulating Physics with Computers
Richard Feynman
1982PAPER
Quantum theory, the Church–Turing principle and the universal quantum computer
David Deutsch
1985PAPER
Quantum Cryptography: Public Key Distribution and Coin Tossing (1984; arXiv reprint 2020)
Charles H. Bennett & Gilles Brassard
1984PAPER
Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories
John F. Clauser, Michael A. Horne, Abner Shimony, Richard A. Holt
1969PAPER
Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms
Peter Shor
1994 (FOCS); 1997 (SIAM journal)PAPER
A Fast Quantum Mechanical Algorithm for Database Search
Lov Grover
1996PAPER
Scheme for Reducing Decoherence in Quantum Computer Memory (Shor Code)
Peter Shor
1995PAPER
Teleporting an Unknown Quantum State via Dual Classical and EPR Channels
Bennett, Brassard, Crépeau, Jozsa, Peres, Wootters
1993PAPER
Communication via One- and Two-Particle Operators on Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen States
Charles H. Bennett & Stephen J. Wiesner
1992PAPER
Multiple Particle Interference and Quantum Error Correction
Andrew Steane
1996PAPER
A Single Quantum Cannot Be Cloned
William K. Wootters & Wojciech H. Zurek
1982PAPER
Quantum Measurements and the Abelian Stabilizer Problem
Alexei Kitaev
1995PAPER
Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond
John Preskill
2018PAPER
Quantum Algorithm for Linear Systems of Equations (HHL)
Harrow, Hassidim, Lloyd
2009PAPER
A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)
Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann
2014PAPER
A Variational Eigenvalue Solver on a Photonic Quantum Processor (VQE)
Alberto Peruzzo, Jarrod McClean, et al.
2014PAPER
Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
Frank Arute et al. (Google)
2019PAPER
Suppressing Quantum Errors by Scaling a Surface Code Logical Qubit
Google Quantum AI (Nature, 2023)
2023PAPER
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation by Anyons
Alexei Kitaev
2003PAPER
The Physical Implementation of Quantum Computation
David P. DiVincenzo
2000PAPER