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Quantum Visualization Gallery

Interactive demos we built to make quantum intuitive, plus a curated catalog of the best visualization tools across the web.

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Blochy (kherb.io)

Kevin Herb · WebGL

Publication-quality Bloch sphere with time evolution, gate sequences, and exportable plots.

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unBLOCHed

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gamberoillecito · JavaScript

Interactive Bloch sphere for classroom teaching. Simple gate application with visual feedback.

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cduck/bloch_sphere

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Casey Duckering · Python / SVG / GIF

Programmatic Bloch sphere — generates animated GIFs and SVGs of gate sequences. 113 stars.

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Quirk

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Craig Gidney (Google) · JavaScript / Canvas

The gold standard. Drag-and-drop gates, real-time probability/amplitude/Bloch displays inline. Up to 16 qubits. URL-shareable.

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Quirk-E

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DEQSE Project · JavaScript

Extended Quirk with step-by-step inspector. Imports/exports OpenQASM, Qiskit, Cirq, Q#. PNG/SVG/PDF circuit export.

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quantum-viz.js

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Microsoft · TypeScript / SVG

Lightweight circuit diagram renderer. CDN-loadable, simple API. Designed for embedding.

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QCVIS

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Fraunhofer IGD · Vue 3 / TypeScript / Tauri

Four visualization modes: state bar plot, Q-sphere, state cube (4D), hybrid state cube with phase disks. Oklab color space. Animated transitions.

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BraKetVue

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Quantum Flytrap · Vue 3 / TypeScript

Reusable Vue components for quantum state (ket-viewer) and matrix (matrix-viewer) visualization. Backed by Unitary Fund.

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animated-qubits

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David B Kemp · JavaScript / npm

Smooth animated amplitude bar visualizations. Powers a Grover's algorithm step-through demo.

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Quantum Flytrap Virtual Lab

Piotr Migdal et al. · Vue.js / quantum-tensors

Optical table simulation with drag-and-drop beam splitters, polarizers, detectors. Real-time entanglement. Published at CHI 2022.

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VENUS

EuroVis 2023 · Research prototype

Novel geometric representation using semicircles. Addresses Bloch sphere's inability to show entanglement. 2D encoding of amplitude + phase.

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Visual QFT

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hapax (GitHub) · Web-based

QFT through geometric intuition — interactive linkage applet shows how Fourier transform relates to high-dimensional Hilbert spaces.

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ShorVis

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IEEE VIS 2019 · Web-based

Comprehensive Shor's algorithm visualization integrating Bloch sphere, circuit diagram, and probability distribution in one view.

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Black Opal

Q-CTRL · Web (Chrome/Safari)

350+ interactive activities, 3D Bloch spheres, wave simulations. University-adopted. The gold standard for educational quantum UX.

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Quantum Playground

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Google · WebGL (GPU-accelerated)

GPU-accelerated via WebGL textures. Up to 22 qubits in browser. Own scripting language, built-in Grover's and Shor's, 3D amplitude/phase viz.

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IBM Quantum Composer

IBM · Web-based

Drag-and-drop circuits with phase disks, inspect mode. Connects to real IBM quantum processors. Export to SVG/PNG.

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Qiskit Visualization Suite

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IBM / Qiskit · Python / Matplotlib

The publication standard: Q-sphere, city plot, Hinton diagram, Paulivec, histograms, Bloch multivector. Used in most quantum papers.

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QuTiP Visualization

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QuTiP Project · Python / Matplotlib

Wigner functions, Husimi Q-functions, density matrices, process tomography. The standard for open quantum systems research.

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Surface Code Interactive

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Arthur Pesah · Web-based

Interactive web explanation of surface codes (toric, planar, rotated) with clickable visual elements. Excellent for QEC education.

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QML Playground

arXiv 2025 · Web-based

TensorFlow Playground-style interface for quantum ML. Visualizes data re-uploading classifiers and parameter optimization.

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14 open source
4 exceptional quality
6 with our replications
7 with live demos