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Learn quantum, visually,
in your browser.

QuIDE is a quantum circuit IDE built for people who are curious, not credentialed. Drag gates onto qubits, run them instantly, and watch an AI assistant explain what's happening and why — no local install, no prior physics background required. Start with superposition and entanglement in under ten minutes.

For self-learners

Start with superposition and entanglement in under ten minutes. Drag gates onto qubits, run them instantly, and watch an AI assistant explain what's happening and why — no prior physics background required.

For teams

If your team wants a working understanding of quantum computing — not just buzzwords — QuIDE is built for a live, hands-on session. Everyone builds a real circuit, runs it on a simulator or actual quantum hardware, and leaves with intuition they can explain to someone else.

Guided lesson · 4 steps

Your first quantum circuit

No math required. About ten minutes, start to finish.

01

Apply H to a single qubit

Drag a Hadamard (H) gate onto qubit 0 and run the circuit.

H puts your qubit into superposition — it’s now both 0 and 1 until measured. This is the building block of every quantum algorithm.

AI "Explain" prompt: "Explain what just happened when H was applied to this qubit, in plain language, referencing the resulting state and probabilities shown in the simulator."
02

Add a CNOT to build entanglement

Add a CNOT gate with qubit 0 as control and qubit 1 as target, then run again.

CNOT links the two qubits — measuring one now tells you the other’s value instantly. This is entanglement, the thing that makes quantum computers different from classical ones.

AI "Explain" prompt: "Explain why the two qubits are now correlated, and what would happen if the student measured qubit 0 first."
03

Measure and interpret results

Add measurement gates to both qubits and run the circuit 100+ times (shots).

You’ll see roughly 50% |00⟩ and 50% |11⟩ — never |01⟩ or |10⟩. That’s entanglement showing up in real data.

AI "Explain" prompt: "Interpret this results histogram for a beginner — why only two outcomes appear, and what would break that pattern."
04

Switch from simulator to real hardware

Toggle from "Local Simulator" to a real IBM Quantum backend and re-run.

Same circuit, real hardware. You’ll likely see some noise — a few unexpected outcomes. That’s real quantum hardware being imperfect, not a bug.

AI "Explain" prompt: "Compare this hardware run to the simulator run and explain the differences in terms a beginner can understand — is this expected noise or a circuit design issue?"

Want a team workshop using QuIDE? Book a quantum fundamentals session →

A half-day, hands-on session where your team builds and runs real quantum circuits in QuIDE — covering superposition, entanglement, and measurement — with time for your team's own questions about where quantum and AI are actually relevant to your work today versus hype. No prerequisites; runs in a browser.

Quantum in 10 Minutes

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