What if you could see qubits!? 👀


This talk was presented at PIQUE's one year anniversary event. I have edited the audio from that talk and put it here. Click play on the audio and the presentation slides will automatically play along.

Hi, I'm Elliot

Topics

  1. Ideation & Inspiration
  2. Visualizing a Qubit
  3. Future Work

Ideation & Inspiration 👀

About this project and what I made

Some beginner questions

Ideation Process

You can drag and zoom this design:

What is a qubit? 🤔

Inspiration

IBM's Hello Quantum


source: helloquantum.mybluemix.net

5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel


source: 5dchesswithmultiversetimetravel.com

Shapez.io


source: store.steampowered.com/app/1318690/shapezio

Visualizing a Qubit 👀

Learnings and choices I made while visualizing qubits

What is a qubit? 🤔

Visualizing how qubits are - prior art

Bloch Spheres

  • + Elegant
  • + Physically Relevant
  • - A bit complicated
source: wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Probabilities

  • + Actual outcome of quantum computation
  • - Classical information, not quantum
  • - Boring

Visualizing how qubits are - my solution

Arrow kets

  • + Show off superposition & phase(non-complex phase)
  • + Simple and color coded
  • - Limited

What is a qubit? 🤔

Conventional gates + gamification

Gates use conventional notation.

But there is a source and a goal, and wires can go in any direction.

Result:

Puzzle. Collect 10:
elliot.website/qubit

Future Work 👀

What is a qubit? 🤔

Visualizing entanglement - prior art


source: algassert.com/post/1716

Tetrahedron entanglement visualization


Click anywhere on this slide to see a 3D version.

I'm focusing on 2 qubits

Explorable Explanation

Coming up: an article explaining the basics of quantum computing with puzzles throughout!

Thank You for taking a look 👀

@elliotokay

Appendix - References & Inspiration

To the best of my understanding, use of materials from these sources is acceptable under fair-use.

Appendix - Presentation Code