acknowledgments

Writing a book, especially one that simplifies a complex subject like quantum computing, requires substantial time and effort. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the team at Manning Publications for their support throughout this project. Our development editor, Dustin Archibald, deserves special recognition for his invaluable feedback and relentless dedication to refining our manuscript. We’d also like to thank the entire editorial and production teams who helped shepherd this book into its final form.

We are also deeply grateful to our technical editor, Johan Voss, cofounder of Gluon, whose expert insights significantly improved the technical accuracy of the book; and to Filip Wojcieszyn, our technical proofreader, for his thorough review of the book’s codebase.

This book was greatly enhanced by Paul Stefanski’s work on refining the narrative, correcting errors, and enhancing clarity; Claudia Gonciulea’s content review and initial development and testing of the quantum simulator code; Nick Gonciulea for the initial implementation of the AI assistant; Vitaliy Dorum for containerizing some of the tools; and Naren Satishkumar’s creation and refinement of additional applications and tools for the book’s ecosystem.