Section outline

    • Action of unitary operators on qubits can be understood as rotations of the Bloch sphere representing qubits.

    • A basic tool in the above representation are properties of quaternions.

    • The inscription on the Broom Bridge in Dublin where quaternions were born.the-plaque-upon-the-bridge.jpg

    • Niles Johnson's lecture on the stereographic projection (slightly different from ours), Hopf fibration and quaternions.

    • Remarkable interactive visualization of quaternions and the stereographic projection

      https://eater.net/quaternions