Tools
Research and Teaching Tools
Our research group has created the following tools for use in research and education.
Bloch Sphere Simulator
The Bloch sphere concept is a useful tool to represent the actions of various quantum-mechanical operators on a spinor. The Bloch sphere concept is often used in discussions of spin-based quantum computing. The following link described a Bloch Sphere animation software that allows users to view the evolution of the state of a qubit (quantum bit) on the Bloch Sphere when submitted to the action of various quantum gates. The simulator provides documentation on the actions of the simple operators and also provides a description of the time evolution simulation of a qubit submitted to the action of a constant uniform magnetic field.
You can access the Bloch Sphere simulator from this location.
Secondary Emissions Yield Fitting Program
You can download the GUI which allows a fit to secondary emission yield data as a function of the electron impact voltage based on a new empirical formula described in the attached paper. The new empirical fit is a generalization of a formula first proposed by Vaughan (IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol.36, 1963 (1989)). Before using the software, read the following paper which describes the theory behind it: