Geometric Visualizations of Single and Entangled Qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03448v2
• Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 16:37:34 GMT
• Title: Geometric Visualizations of Single and Entangled Qubits
• Authors: Li-Heng Henry Chang, Shea Roccaforte, Ziyu Xu, Paul Cadden-Zimansky,
• Abstract summary: We create maps of subspaces of 1- and 2-qubit systems that encode properties of these states in their geometries. These maps may prove particularly useful for understanding fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics and quantum information at the introductory level.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The Bloch Sphere visualization of the possible states of a single qubit has proved a useful pedagogical and conceptual tool as a one-to-one map between qubit states and points in a 3-D space. However, understanding many important concepts of quantum mechanics, such as entanglement, requires developing intuitions about states with a minimum of two qubits, which map one-to-one to unvisualizable spaces of 6 dimensions and higher. In this paper we circumvent this visualization issue by creating maps of subspaces of 1- and 2-qubit systems that quantitatively and qualitatively encode properties of these states in their geometries. For the 1-qubit case, the subspace approach allows one to visualize how mixed states relate to different choices of measurement in a basis-independent way and how to read off the entries in a density matrix representation of these states from lengths in a simple diagram. For the 2-qubit case, a toroidal map of 2-qubit states illuminates the non-trivial topology of the state space while allowing one to simultaneously read off, in distances and angles, the level of entanglement in the 2-qubit state and the mixed-state properties of its constituent qubits. By encoding states and their evolutions through quantum logic gates with little to no need of mathematical formalism, these maps may prove particularly useful for understanding fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics and quantum information at the introductory level. Interactive versions of the visualizations introduced in this paper are available at https://quantum.bard.edu/.

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