Quantum games and interactive tools for quantum technologies outreach and education

Seskir, Zeki Can; Migdał, Piotr; Weidner, Carrie A.; Anupam, Aditya; Case, Nicky; Davis, Noah; Decaroli, Chiara; Ercan, İlke; Foti, Caterina; Góra, Paweł; Jankiewicz, Klementyna; Cour, Brian R. La; Malo, Jorge Yago; Maniscalco, Sabrina; Naeemi, Azad; Nita, Laurentiu; Parvin, Nassim; Scafirimuto, Fabio; Sherson, Jacob; Sürer, Elif; Wootton, James R.; Yeh, Lia; Zabello, Olga; Chiofalo, M. L.

doi:10.1117/1.oe.61.8.081809

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“…The use of quantum games and interactive tools has been growing, and has been promoted in a cross-disciplinary manner over the last few years as a tool to educate students and citizens about quantum science and technologies. Currently, this field of activity is the subject of attention of the pilot project QUTE4E-Quantum Technology Education for Everyone of the QTEdu-Coordination and Support Action of the European Quantum Flagship [65,66], aimed at creating "the learning ecosystem necessary to inform and educate society about quantum technologies. "…”

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Games for Teaching/Learning Quantum Mechanics: A Pilot Study with High-School Students

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The teaching of quantum physics is challenging, not the least because teachers must overcome the traditional narrative approach, students must gain a conceptual understanding of fundamentals, and citizens must become aware of quantum technologies. Quantum games are powerful tools to overcome obstacles and push one’s limits without fear of failure. We report on a pilot study involving twenty high-school student volunteers, consisting of a compact intervention module on the concepts of quantum states, properties, measurement, superposition, and entanglement within the framework of the Model of Educational Reconstruction, followed by playing a game, quantum TiqTaqToe. The outcomes of this research-based learning environment are discussed via the qualitative analysis of students’ answers to two open questionnaires. We find that students grasped the concepts of superposition and, with special awareness, entanglement, the game proving effective to help students experience their implications in quantum behavior. The informal and stimulating tournament atmosphere favored intertwining of the game with learning goals. Our central message is that the use of quantum game tools fits a teaching/learning environment in manners often not well understood in the literature; it enhances awareness of the nature of new and non-intuitive concepts, increases complementarity with other languages within the process of thinking about physics, boosts student engagement, and improves intervention efficiency and effectiveness.

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“…There are several academic subcategories for games like leisure games, educational games and science games. Many if not most games labelled as science games, or science-based games are educational games on natural sciences designed especially for kids [22,23,24,25,26]. Magnussen (2014) draws to the conclusion that digital science games do indeed offer a bigger multitude of game formats and provides a categorisation of science games through the different goals proposed for the player.…”

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“…This has increased the need for a trained workforce in this growing field of industry [88] and can only be estimated to grow. The need for new teaching methods regarding quantum physics is vastly growing and games have largely seen as prominent tools for this purpose particularly in Europe and the US [26,89].…”

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Defining Quantum Games

Piispanen¹,

Marcel²,

Kultima³

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In this article, we explore the concept of quantum games and define quantum games as any type of playable games that are related to or reference quantum physics through any of three proposed aspects. The rise of the quantum computers has made it possible to think about a new wave of computer games, namely quantum computer games, games on quantum computers. But at the same time, there are also various games that are exploring quantum mechanics and related topics through digital, analogue and hybrid means. In this article we go through the emerging body of quantum games, the history of quantum games and the different ways a game may be considered a quantum game. For this we propose three dimensions for analysing and defining the phenomenon of quantum games: the perceivable dimension of quantum games, the dimension of quantum technologies and the dimension of scientific purposes.

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“…23,24 One way of introducing quantum mechanics is through interactive simulations and explorable explanations. For a recent introduction to this approach, see the survey article "Quantum Games and Interactive Tools for Quantum Technologies Outreach and Education" by Seskir et al 25 in which photons are presented as one of the most straightforward introductions to quantum mechanics. One of the earliest simulations is an interactive visualization of a onedimensional wavefunction in a potential well 26 from 2002.…”

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“…Some educational, interactive simulations take the form of games. 25 Preskill 30 wrote that "perhaps kids who grow up playing quantum games will acquire a visceral understanding of quantum phenomena that our generation lacks", and studies confirm that this type of openended experience promotes exploration. 31 Children learn Newtonian physics by interacting with their environment 32,33 rather than starting with differential calculus.…”

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Visualizing quantum mechanics in an interactive simulation – Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap

Migdał¹,

Jankiewicz²,

Paweł³

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Opt. Eng.

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Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap is a no-code online laboratory of an optical table, presenting quantum phenomena interactively and intuitively. It supports a real-time simulation of up to three entangled photons. Users can place typical optical elements (such as beam splitters, polarizers, Faraday rotators, and detectors) with a drag-and-drop graphical interface. Virtual Lab operates in two modes. The sandbox mode allows users to compose arbitrary setups. Quantum Game serves as an introduction to Virtual Lab features, approachable for users with no prior exposure to quantum mechanics. We introduce visual representation of entangled states and entanglement measures. It includes interactive visualizations of the ket notation and a heatmap-like visualization of quantum operators. These quantum visualizations can be applied to any discrete quantum system, including quantum circuits with qubits and spin chains. These tools are available as open-source TypeScript packages -Quantum Tensors and BraKetVue. Virtual Lab makes it possible to explore the nature of quantum physics (state evolution, entanglement, and measurement), to simulate quantum computing (e.g., the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm), to use quantum cryptography (e.g., the Ekert protocol), to explore counterintuitive quantum phenomena (e.g., quantum teleportation and the Bell inequality violation), and to recreate historical experiments (e.g., the Michelson-Morley interferometer).

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Quantum games and interactive tools for quantum technologies outreach and education

Cited by 53 publications

References 96 publications

Games for Teaching/Learning Quantum Mechanics: A Pilot Study with High-School Students

Games for Teaching/Learning Quantum Mechanics: A Pilot Study with High-School Students

Defining Quantum Games

Visualizing quantum mechanics in an interactive simulation – Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap

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