Simulating Quantum Turing Machine in Augmented Reality

As quantum computing theory is attracting attention from researchers nowadays, visualizing the quantum computing process is necessary for fundamental quantum computing education and research. Especially, connecting traditional computational theory with advanced quantum computing concepts is an extremely important step in learning and understanding quantum computing. In this paper, we propose a practical interactive interface for simulating Quantum Turing Machine (QTM) in Augmented Reality (AR) that combines the traditional Turing machine computational model with the quantum computing simulation. Through such an interface, users can use a C-like script to represent a QTM and simulate such QTM in an immersive augmented reality platform through the Vuforia AR engine. After validating our proposed QTM AR simulator through a series of experiments, we show the great potential to apply our QTM AR simulator to quantum computing education through an interactive visualization interface in augmented reality.