Quantum Trajectories: Unraveling the Lindblad Master Equation
Watch individual stochastic quantum-jump trajectories on the Bloch sphere average into the smooth decoherence predicted by the Lindblad master equation. Switch between amplitude damping, dephasing and depolarizing noise, tune the jump rate and a coherent drive, and track coherence and purity live.
This 2D counterpart runs the same open-quantum-system physics as the 3D Bloch-sphere version, side by side on a flat canvas so the two computations are easy to compare at a glance. On the left, a small ensemble of pure-state quantum trajectories evolves under the Monte Carlo wavefunction method — non-Hermitian drift punctuated by genuinely random quantum jumps sampled from the real jump-rate operator. On the right, the qubit's 2×2 density matrix is integrated directly from the Lindblad master equation, with no reference to any individual trajectory. Averaging the left ensemble's Bloch vectors reconstructs the same physics the right panel computes from scratch; the live coherence, purity and Bloch-vector-gap readouts let you watch that agreement tighten as you add more trajectories.
Watch individual stochastic quantum-jump trajectories on the Bloch sphere average into the smooth decoherence predicted by the Lindblad master equation, across amplitude damping, dephasing and depolarizing noise.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install