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Who's afraid of the Unit Quaternion ?
Brian O'Sullivan
Far from being just a 2-level Quantum system the Qubit is a Unit Quaternion, also known as a Spinor. Therefore it follows that the Qubit is a 4-dimensional vector which traces a pa…
physics.gen-ph2016
Quaternions, Spinors and the Hopf Fibration: Hidden Variables in Classical Mechanics
Brian O'Sullivan
Rotations in 3 dimensional space are equally described by the SU(2) and SO(3) groups. These isomorphic groups generate the same 3D kinematics using different algebraic structures o…