Quantum Moves
| Developer(s) |
AU Ideas Center for Community Driven Research, University of Aarhus (, [1]) |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2012 |
| Development status | Active (Perpetual beta) |
| Operating system |
Cross-platform (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Citizen scienceonline game, Quantum physics |
| License | Freeware for academic and non-profit use |
| Website | http://scienceathome.org/ |
Quantum Moves is an online citizen science simulation video game where you move quantum atoms. The game is part of the ScienceAtHome[2] umbrella project, developed by AU Ideas CODER (Center for Community Driven Research),[3] which aims to merge theoretical and experimental quantum research with online community efforts to explore the potential for online citizen science in this otherwise highly specialized field.
The objective of game is to complete challenges that are simulations of logical operations in a quantum computer. The team behind the game are building a scalable quantum computer with a processor consisting of 300 atoms, and they need your help to make it work. The logical operations are performed by moving the atoms with a laser, and that is exactly what you will be doing in the game. The player solutions from the game are optimized with complex computational algorithms. After optimization are the solutions applied in the lab to see if it can solve these complicated quantum physics problems encountered in building a scalable quantum computer.
In 2012, the first version of the game was developed in Matlab and tested in several high schools across Denmark. The feedback was positive, but there were many technical issues that made the interaction in the game cumbersome. In the summer of 2012, the game was translated into Java and the first version of Quantum Moves was released.
External links
The game: http://scienceathome.org/play/