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Build a model Bloch sphere

Build a model Bloch sphere

From the course: Quantum Computing Fundamentals

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Build a model Bloch sphere

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- The block sphere is such a handy tool for visualizing quantum states. We thought it would be nice to have our own. That's why we made... - [Both] Block sphere beach balls. - We found that having something that we can physically manipulate, help us understand the basic operation on quantum states. If you have a couple of round objects that you can label, I encourage you to pause this video, and grab them. - We've labeled the polar ends of our beach balls, with green circles to represent the two computational basis states, with zero at the top and one at the bottom. Remember, these two basis states exist along the Z-axis. Around the middle, we used blue circles to represent the positive side of the x-axis, and the negative side of the x-axis, and we used yellow circles to represent the positive y axis and the negative y-axis. To label your own sphere, you can use paint, markers, stickers, whatever you…

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