Resonator state (marker)
Stabilized wells |±α⟩
High potential (barrier)
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This simulator renders, as a flat colour-coded heatmap, the same phase-space potential a two-photon driven, dissipative resonator uses to stabilize a "cat qubit" — a logical qubit encoded in a superposition of two coherent states, |+α⟩ and |−α⟩, sitting in the wells of a double-well surface shaped by the stabilization drive. Drag the cat size α and you change the photon number n̄ = α² that separates the wells: the mean time between bit-flip errors grows exponentially with n̄ while the phase-flip rate only grows linearly, so a real cat-qubit resonator becomes an almost purely Z-biased noise source as it gets bigger — the trade-off that makes bias-preserving error correction with cat qubits practical. The marker wandering across the map is a live stochastic simulation of that resonator state, and the scrolling strip below it is an oscilloscope trace of the logical well index — watch how raising α nearly freezes the rare jumps between wells while the in-well jitter (dephasing) keeps ticking, exactly as the printed formulas predict. Drag the map to pan and scroll to zoom, the 2D stand-in for orbiting the original 3D surface.