Quantum Information Science

See also math for QM, linear algebra, QM, and QM foundations.

Recommended

Artur Ekert, Timothy Hosgood, Alastair Kay, Chiara Macchiavello. Introduction to Quantum Information Science; 2025. Free ebook

So very good. And check out the YouTube playlist with Ekert's classes.

Mark Wilde. From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory; Cambridge University Press 2016. arXiv version.

Chapter 2–4 covers the basics, emphasizing the role of density matrices.

Quantum entanglement, a series of short lectures by Mark Wilde.

Quantum Computation Lecture Notes (Caltech CS219) by John Preskill

E. Witten. A Mini-Introduction To Information Theory. Riv. Nuovo Cim. 2020, 43 (4), 187–227.

C. A. Fuchs and J. van de Graaf, Cryptographic distinguishability measures for quantum-mechanical states, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 45, 1216 (1999).

C. A. Fuchs, Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Information (and Only a Little More), arXiv:quant-ph/0205039.