Activities

Experiments, Games,
and More

Here's what you can do with your Qubis.

Beginner

Start here

No quantum background needed. Pick up Qubi and start exploring.

Experiment

Share a quantum-secure codeword

Quantum key distribution · Ekert 91

5 min

Quantum key distribution · Ekert 91

Two students share a secret key using entangled qubits. The instant someone tries to listen in, you can tell. This is the protocol behind quantum-secure communication.

5 min

2 Qubis needed
Experiment

Understand Schrödinger's Cat

Learn about Qubits

20 min

Learn about Qubits

Understand what qubits are, where they can be found in nature, and how we can use them to build new technologies.

20 min

1 Qubi needed
Game

Play "What's your fidelity"

Can you beat IBM's quantum computer?

20 min

Can you beat IBM's quantum computer?

A fun game where you can try to perform a gate better than state-of-the-art quantum computers.

20 min

1 Qubi needed
Game

Play Quantum Trivia

Multiplayer quiz game

20 min

Multiplayer quiz game

Group quiz on gates, states, and a bit of history. Good as a warm-up or an end-of-lesson check.

20 min

No Qubi needed
Course

Learn about entanglement

Singlet state

10 min

Singlet state

Prepare two qubits so that measuring one tells you the answer for the other, in any basis. Once you have this, the rest of entanglement clicks.

10 min

2 Qubis needed
Experiment

Discover the laws of measurement

The Born rule

15 min

The Born rule

Run a circuit a bunch of times, count the outcomes, work out the rule yourself. Way more convincing than being told.

15 min

1 Qubi needed
Experiment

Generate pure randomness

Quantum random number generator

5 min

Quantum random number generator

Quantum is the only source of true randomness we know of.

5 min

1 Qubi needed
Game

Learn about quantum circuits

Learn how quantum programs are written, and learn their basic operations.

10 min

Learn how quantum programs are written, and learn their basic operations.

Learn how quantum programs are written, and learn their basic operations.

10 min

1 Qubi needed
Game

Play Qubi Hero

Play gates in rhythm

5 min

Play gates in rhythm

Guitar Hero, but for quantum gates. Apply rotations in time with a song. A surprisingly good way to memorize the gate set.

5 min

1 Qubi needed
Experiment

Witness the quantum Zeno effect

The watched pot doesn't boil

15 min

The watched pot doesn't boil

Learn about how observing a qubit can change its behavior. In this case, freezing it in place!

15 min

1 Qubi needed
Experiment

Customize your view

Alternative visualizations

Anytime

Alternative visualizations

Swap between Bloch spheres, density plots, and hue maps. Each highlights a different feature of the same quantum state.

Anytime

1 Qubi needed

Intermediate

Build on the basics

Multi-qubit experiments, your first algorithms, and live runs on real quantum hardware.

Experiment

Run on a real quantum computer

IBM · IonQ · Quantinuum

Anytime

IBM · IonQ · Quantinuum

Send your Qubi circuit to real hardware in IBM's, IonQ's, or Quantinuum's labs. The same circuit runs differently on superconducting hardware than on trapped ions, and the differences tell you a lot.

Anytime

1 Qubi needed
Game

Run the Nobel prize experiment

The 2022 Nobel-winning test of reality

30 min

The 2022 Nobel-winning test of reality

The 2022 Physics Nobel went to people who ran this experiment. You measure correlations that no local theory can produce, and the math is right there in your hand.

30 min

2 Qubis needed
Experiment

Witness Mermin's paradox

Prove nonlocality in one shot

20 min

Prove nonlocality in one shot

Set up three entangled qubits and you get an outcome that simply can't happen if each qubit had a definite answer before you measured. No statistics, no probabilities, just a flat contradiction with classical thinking.

20 min

3 Qubis needed
Course

Witness the Wigner's friend paradox

Observer paradox

20 min

Observer paradox

What happens if someone measures a qubit, and someone else measures the whole lab? On Qubi you can run both, and the answers are weirdly hard to reconcile.

20 min

2 Qubis needed
Course

Crack a password

Grover's algorithm

30 min

Grover's algorithm

Find a simple 3-bit password in one shot, where any classical method would need several guesses.

30 min

3 Qubis needed
Experiment

Explore noise profiles of different quantum computers

T1, T2, and gate fidelity

20 min

T1, T2, and gate fidelity

Compare how noise affects different quantum computers differently.

20 min

1 Qubi needed
Game

Pull off a Quantum Heist

Teleport a quantum state

40 min

Teleport a quantum state

Move a qubit's state from one Qubi to another using shared entanglement and two classical bits. No quantum information travels through the wire.

40 min

3 Qubis needed
Course

Run the first quantum algorithm

Deutsch's algorithm

15 min

Deutsch's algorithm

The first quantum algorithm to beat anything classical, even though the problem is a toy. Worth running because it's where the whole field starts.

15 min

2 Qubis needed
Experiment

Send 2 bits with 1 qubit

Superdense coding

20 min

Superdense coding

The mirror of teleportation. Use entanglement to compress 2 bits into 1!

20 min

2 Qubis needed
Experiment

Catch a quantum spy

Ekert 91 with detection

40 min

Ekert 91 with detection

Learn the clever way that we can tell if someone listened in on our quantum communications.

40 min

2 Qubis needed
Experiment

Learn about Quantum Magnetometers

Qubi acts like the world's most sensitive compass

25 min

Qubi acts like the world's most sensitive compass

Use accumulated phase to spot changes too small for any classical sensor. Same principle as LIGO and atomic gyroscopes.

25 min

1 Qubi needed
Course

Learn how a quantum clock works

The most precise clock humans have ever built

20 min

The most precise clock humans have ever built

Why atomic clocks lose less than a second per billion years. Learn the Ramsey sequence on your Qubi.

20 min

1 Qubi needed
Course

Learn how MRIs work

Nuclear magnetic resonance

20 min

Nuclear magnetic resonance

An MRI is already a quantum device. The same pulse sequences run on your Qubi as in a radiologist's spin-echo scan.

20 min

2 Qubis needed
Experiment

Mimic real quantum hardware

Noise mimicking mode

20 min

Noise mimicking mode

Configure your Qubi to behave like IBM, IonQ, or Quantinuum's hardware, noise and all. Run a circuit on a pretend machine and feel why noise still matters.

20 min

1 Qubi needed
Experiment

Step through any algorithm

Quantum algorithm playground

20 min

Quantum algorithm playground

Pause, rewind, and inspect any quantum algorithm gate by gate. Break it on purpose with noise or stray operations to see exactly how it fails.

20 min

2 Qubis needed

Advanced

Protocols and paradoxes

Protocols, paradoxes, and applications that have been debated for decades.

Course

Break RSA encryption

Shor's algorithm

45 min

Shor's algorithm

Factor 15 using period-finding. Give the same algorithm enough qubits and it breaks RSA. The only missing piece is scale.

45 min

5 Qubis needed
Course

Simulate a molecule

Variational quantum eigensolver

30 min

Variational quantum eigensolver

Find the ground-state energy of H₂ by tweaking a circuit until the answer settles. This is what people use today's noisy quantum computers for.

30 min

5 Qubis needed
Course

Prove no-faster-than-light communication

The no-signaling theorem

15 min

The no-signaling theorem

Entangled qubits look like they should let you signal faster than light. Run the experiment that shows why they don't, and where the "spooky action" intuition fails.

15 min

2 Qubis needed
Experiment

Build your own Hamiltonian

Arbitrary time evolution

20 min

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Arbitrary time evolution

Define a Hamiltonian, hit play, and watch your qubits evolve under it. The starting point for optimization algorithms and quantum simulation. Bonus: leave it running as a screensaver.

20 min

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1+ Qubis needed
Experiment

Watch error correction in real time

Stabilizer codes and syndromes

30 min

Stabilizer codes and syndromes

Perform stabilizer measurements and watch error syndromes light up. See how a quantum error-correcting code spots and fixes errors as they happen.

30 min

3 Qubis needed

... and more

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