Self-similar visualization and sequence analysis of many-body wavefunctions

We present a pictorial representation of quantum many-body wavefunctions, in which a wavefunction characterizing a chain of n qudits is mapped to an image (and which we call Qubism).

The main property of the plotting scheme is the recursivity: increasing the number of qubits reflects in an increase in the image resolution. Thus, the plots are typically fractal-like, at least for translationally invariant states.

Many features of the wavefunction, such as magnetization, entanglement and criticality, are represented by visual properties of the images.

Presented on: http://qcmc2012.org/, http://www.eccs2012.eu/, http://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/qism2012/

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