QCC Interactive LabQUANTUM COMPUTING CLUB · CLEVELAND STATE
About QCCLocal simulator 1–6 qubits
SUPERPOSITION & INTERFERENCE

Undo the randomness

If H creates a 50/50 readout, what happens when we apply it twice?

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Build & play

Click a gate to inspect it. Use + to add to your circuit.
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See the outcome

Read bits left to right: q0
Exact probabilitySampled frequency

Exact probabilities are shown now. Run shots to see a finite sample.

Change one thing. See what moves.

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Inspect the state

At the selected step
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Test a range

Exact, full-circuit predictions

Sweep a rotation angle or the noise strength. Plot what changes across 33 settings.

Keep an experiment going.

Export circuits for another session, or share a link to the exact setup.

A lab, at your pace.

Choose a question from the shelf. Make a prediction. Step through the gates, or change one and see what happens. Follow the learning path to review the basics and unlock advanced tools.

For your first meeting

Open “Undo the randomness.” One person drives; someone else predicts. Use the play button to see each step. Add an M gate between the H gates and compare.

For your next big question

Switch to Go deeper. Build up to six qubits, set the input, inspect amplitudes and density matrices, test Pauli correlations, add noise, and sweep a parameter.

A few useful words

Qubit
A quantum two-level system. Its state determines probabilities and how later gates interfere.
Gate
An operation on the quantum state. Click a gate for its meaning and settings.
Shot
One independent sample from the readout distribution. More shots improve statistical precision.
Phase
A part of an amplitude that can affect interference even when current readout probabilities are unchanged.

Use Share experiment to copy the setup and prediction into a link. Links do not create a live shared editing session. A classmate also needs access to this Site.

Know what the model says.

This is a classical browser simulation of 1–6 qubits, up to 80 operations. It computes a complex density matrix, so pure states, mixtures, and the supported noise channels use the same mathematics. It is not connected to quantum hardware.

Conventions

Inputs start in a chosen computational basis state. q0 is the leftmost displayed bit. Gates run left to right, one operation per column. Rotation angles are radians. Shots sample all qubits in the Z basis at the selected step.

Measurement and noise

M performs a nonselective Z measurement on one qubit: the result is discarded. It removes that qubit’s off-diagonal blocks. It does not produce a retained classical bit, selected branch, or conditional feedback. Teleportation with classical feed-forward and adaptive circuits are not implemented.

Noise acts after each non-measurement gate on every qubit touched by that gate. Dephasing multiplies off-diagonal blocks by (1 − p); this is not the same p convention as a probabilistic Z flip. Bit flip is (1 − p)ρ + pXρX. Amplitude damping uses the standard decay channel toward 0 with probability p. These are independent toy channels, not calibrated hardware, timing, readout errors, or crosstalk.

A Bloch view is the reduced state of one qubit. It cannot show all multi-qubit correlations. Matching histograms alone do not establish entanglement or equal quantum states. Amplitudes are only displayed for a pure joint state, with an arbitrary global phase fixed for display.

Going beyond this lab

Use ideal-circuit OpenQASM export to take circuits into larger tools. QASM export excludes noise and M gates to avoid changing their semantics. Qiskit typically prints measured bits in the reverse order from this lab. Larger systems, custom matrices, hardware jobs, and error correction workflows need a dedicated quantum SDK.

Read more, when you want

Pass the experiment along.

This link contains the circuit, selected step, settings, prediction, and observations. Anyone you send it to who has Site access can open a copy.

Each person edits their own copy. The link does not include the pinned comparison or unsaved changes.

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