Qubit Busy Board

The Quantum Turtle · A hands-on experiment

The Qubit Busy Board

A little wooden toy for a very curious qubit. Press a button and see what moves!

QUANTUM PLAY LAB · NO. 01

|0⟩|1⟩ xy

MEASUREMENT LIGHTS

01

CHANCE OF EACH RESULT

0 · 100%
1 · 0%

Ready! Try the big red X button.

The qubit begins at |0⟩.

Little buttons, real quantum rules

The wooden frame, round viewing window, protected pointer and oversized buttons are a digital model for a future physical busy board. X flips a state, H changes its superposition, Z changes relative phase and Y rotates around a different axis. The displayed arrow is a 2D projection of the 3D Bloch vector, so distinct positions in depth can sometimes overlap.

Try it: press H, then Measure. Reset and try again. You may see 0 or 1, each with a 50% chance. Measurement updates the state to the outcome, so the result becomes certain until another gate changes it.

A simulation of ideal single-qubit gates and computational-basis measurement. No quantum hardware is used.