Sonification of many qubit systems

Juliette Tudoce

Published Feb 4, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

Quantum mechanics poses significant challenges for visual representation, particularly concerning quantum entanglement. In this work, we propose a sonification mapping for dynamical entanglement generation in many-qubit systems, with the help of phase space methods and entanglement measure. We study dynamics of entanglement generation in many-qubit system in dynamical protocol governed by two models: the one-axis twisting model, and a quantum kicked-rotor exhibiting both regular and quantum chaotic behavior. We present a procedure of entanglement dynamics sonification, allowing mapping the phase-space representation of a many-qubit quantum state and von Neuman entanglement entropy to sound. keywords: sonification, quantum entanglement, Quantum physics, quantum music

DOI: 10.22501/rc.3801781

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