Interactive quantum physics

Quantum physics, made visible.

Step-by-step lessons where you watch wave packets tunnel through walls, electron clouds take shape, qubits rotate and algorithms find their answers. Built for students learning it and for teachers explaining it.

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Three ideas, and you can follow everything on this site

You don't need advanced maths. Each lesson builds on these three, and the visuals do most of the explaining.

|ψ(x)|²

A particle is a wave of amplitudes

Until it is measured, an electron has no single position. It has an amplitude at every place, the wavefunction ψ, and |ψ|² is the chance of finding it there. A qubit is the simplest case: just two amplitudes, α for 0 and β for 1.

↗ + ↙ = 0

Amplitudes can cancel

Probabilities only ever add up. Amplitudes are arrows with a direction, called the phase, so they can also cancel. That is why electrons make interference fringes, why some barriers turn see-through, and how quantum algorithms make wrong answers disappear.

E₁ < E₂ < E₃

Trapped waves come in steps

A wave confined to a region can only take shapes that fit, so its energy comes in steps: the “quantum” in quantum mechanics. It explains the sharp colours atoms emit, and why a trapped particle can never sit perfectly still.

How the lessons work

Follow the physics one step at a time

01

Step through it

Every lesson moves one idea at a time: a gate of a circuit, or a new fact about a wave. Go back, jump ahead, or change the input and watch everything update.

02

See the invisible

Wavefunctions are coloured by their phase. Amplitudes are drawn as dials: the size is the probability and the hand points along the phase. Each qubit is an arrow on the Bloch sphere.

03

Try it yourself

Each lesson has knobs to turn. Wave lessons play out in time; circuit lessons have a Measure button that samples real outcomes and a link into the sandbox.

Learning path

From the photoelectric effect to Shor's algorithm

Topics are ordered the way most courses teach them. Each one stands on its own too.

For teachers

Made for the front of a classroom

Open a topic and put it on the projector: no accounts, nothing to install, nothing to prepare.

  • ✓Present mode. One click hides everything except the visual and a large caption. Step with the arrow keys or a presentation clicker.
  • ✓Links to an exact moment. Every lesson step has its own link (and in the tools, every setting), so you can prepare it before class.
  • ✓Dark or light. Switch with the Dark / Light buttons at the top right. Light usually reads better on a projector, and your choice is remembered on every page.
  • ✓Honest numbers. Every simulation is checked against textbook results or a second, independent method in automated tests.