Here I am maintaining two broad reading lists, that I will attempt to update every couple of weeks. In the first, I am documenting papers or texts that I am reading at the moment, that have that have stood out to me as of particular interest for one reason or another.
I might include a sentence or two indicating its particular interest to me every now and then.
In the second list, I am documenting general books I have been reading lately, and to some extent enjoyed. Again, I might include a sentence or two describing the given entry's appeal to me.
On this page I'll display the most recent updates to each of the lists, but I'll also maintain past entries on dedicated pages:
past academic lists and
past general lists.
Academic Reading List
(updated June 16th)
- Characterization of universal two-qubit Hamiltonians, A. Childs, D. Leung, L. Mancinska, and M. Ozols. arXiv:1004.1645
- Decompositions of Small Tensor Powers and Larsen's Conjecutre, R.M. Guralnick and P.H. Tiep. Representation Theory (2005). arXiv:0502080
- Unitary t-groups, E. Bannai, G. Navarro, N. Rizo, and P.H. Tiep. Arxiv preprint (2018). arXiv:1810.02507
- Peaked quantum advantage using error correction, A. Deshpande, B. Fefferman, S. Ghosh, M. Gullans, and D. Hangleiter. Arxiv preprint (2025). arXiv:2510.05262
- Grover search and the no-signaling principle, N. Bao, A. Bouland, and S. Jordan. Arxiv preprint (2016). arXiv:1511.00657
- Epsilon-nets, unitary designs and random quantum circuits, M. Oszmaniec, A. Sawicki, and M. Horodecki. Arxiv preprint (2021). arXiv:2007.10885
- Merlinization of complexity classes above BQP, T. Morimae, and H. Nishimura. Arxiv preprint (2017). arXiv:1704.01514
- Rewindable Quantum Computation and Its Equivalence to Cloning and Adaptive Postselection, R. Hiromasa, A. Mizutani, Y. Takeuchi, and S. Tani. Arxiv preprint (2025). arXiv:2206.05434
- On the finite irreducible subgroups of GL(n,C) and PGL(n,C), G.G. Calbeto. Arxiv preprint (2025). arXiv:2510.00718
- On automorphism groups of smooth hypersurfaces, S. Yang, X. Yu, and Z. Zhu. Arxiv preprint (2024). arXiv:2405.09505
- On Jordan's theorem for complex linear groups, M.J. Collins. Journal of Group Theory (2007). link
- Breaking the cubic barrier in the Solovay-Kitaev algorithm, G. Kuperberg. Arxiv preprint (2023). arXiv:2306.13158
- Efficient Universal Quantum Compilation: An Inverse-free Solovay-Kitaev Algorithm, A. Bouland and T. Guirgica-Tiron. Arxiv preprint (2021). arXiv:2112.02040
- The Classification of Clifford Gates over Qubits, D. Grier and L. Schaeffer. Quantum (2022). arXiv:1603.03999
- Complexity Classification of Conjugated Clifford Circuits, A. Bouland, J.F. Fitzsimons, and D.E. Koh. Computational Complexity Conference (2018). arXiv:1709.01805
General Reading List
(updated June 16th)
- The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
- Hiroshima, by John Hearsey
- Complications, by Atul Gawande
- Better, by Atul Gawande
- The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks
- Behave, by Robert Sapolsky
- The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman
- Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie