Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Sonification

Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Sonification

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Auditory Display, Copenhagen, Denmark May 18 - 22, 2009

This work deals with the sonification of a quantum mechanical system and the processes that occur as a result of its quantum me- chanical nature and interactions with other systems. The quantum harmonic oscillator is not only regarded as a system with sonifi- able characteristics but also as a storage medium for quantum in- formation. By representing sound information quantum mechan- ically and storing it in the system, every process that unfolds on this level is inherited and reflected by the sound. The main profit of this approach is that the sonification can be used as a first in- sight for two models: a quantum mechanical system model and a quantum computation model.