Student Understanding of the Bloch Sphere
| Title: | Student Understanding of the Bloch Sphere |
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| Authors: | Hu, Peter, Li, Yangqiuting, Mong, Roger S. K., Singh, Chandralekha |
| Source: | European Journal of Physics 45 025705 (2024) |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Collection: | Physics (Other) |
| Subject Terms: | Physics - Physics Education |
| More Details: | Quantum information science is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is attracting the attention of academics and industry experts alike. It requires talent from a wide variety of traditional fields, including physics, engineering, chemistry, and computer science, to name a few. To prepare students for such opportunities, it is important to give them a strong foundation in the basics of quantum information science, in which quantum computing plays a central role. In this study, we discuss the development, validation, and evaluation of a tutorial on the Bloch sphere, a useful visual tool for developing intuition about single quantum bits (qubits), which are the basic building block of any quantum computer. Students' understanding was evaluated after they received traditional lecture-based instruction on the requisite topics, and again after engaging with the tutorial. We observe, analyze, and discuss their improvement in performance on concepts covered in the tutorial. Comment: 19 pages, 1 figure |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1361-6404/ad2393 |
| Access URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01047 |
| Accession Number: | edsarx.2403.01047 |
| Database: | arXiv |
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