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The promise of quantum computing to offer super-fast solutions to optimization problems or virtually foolproof ways to safely send messages depends on twisting qubits, and by association, rotating their qubelets through arbitrary angles.

Although the Bloch sphere is traditionally used to depict the gradual blending of quantum states from a pure images/_pragprog/svg-17.png state at the north pole to a pure images/_pragprog/svg-18.png state at the south pole, its 3D shape makes it hard to visualize the actions of quantum gates. The model described in Modeling Quantum Bits with the Qubelets ...

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