VENUS: A Geometrical Representation for Quantum State Visualization

Visualizations have played a crucial role in helping quantum computing users explore quantum states in various quantum computing applications. Among them, Bloch Sphere is the widely‐used visualization for showing quantum states, which leverages angles to represent quantum amplitudes. However, it can...

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Veröffentlicht in:Computer graphics forum Jg. 42; H. 3; S. 247 - 258
Hauptverfasser: Ruan, Shaolun, Yuan, Ribo, Guan, Qiang, Lin, Yanna, Mao, Ying, Jiang, Weiwen, Wang, Zhepeng, Xu, Wei, Wang, Yong
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2023
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Amplitudes
Angles (geometry)
CCS Concepts
Hardware → Quantum computation
Human‐centered computing → Visualization application domains
Quantum computing
Quantum entanglement
Quantum mechanics
Qubits (quantum computing)
Representations
Visualization
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Zusammenfassung:Visualizations have played a crucial role in helping quantum computing users explore quantum states in various quantum computing applications. Among them, Bloch Sphere is the widely‐used visualization for showing quantum states, which leverages angles to represent quantum amplitudes. However, it cannot support the visualization of quantum entanglement and superposition, the two essential properties of quantum computing. To address this issue, we propose VENUS, a novel visualization for quantum state representation. By explicitly correlating 2D geometric shapes based on the math foundation of quantum computing characteristics, VENUS effectively represents quantum amplitudes of both the single qubit and two qubits for quantum entanglement. Also, we use multiple coordinated semicircles to naturally encode probability distribution, making the quantum superposition intuitive to analyze. We conducted two well‐designed case studies and an in‐depth expert interview to evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of VENUS. The result shows that VENUS can effectively facilitate the exploration of quantum states for the single qubit and two qubits.
Bibliographie:Yong Wang is the corresponding author.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/cgf.14827