On the occasion of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ25), the performance ‘The Dance of the Qubits’ will take place on Friday 11 April at 7.30 p.m. in Piazza dei Miracoli.
Starting from an idea born at Sherbrooke University in Canada, a flash mob will take place during which the movements of the dancers will reproduce a mathematical formalism used to visually represent the quantum state.
The choreographic project is by Giulia Sandroni and Rachele Bellina of the ‘Elsa Ghezzi’ School of Dance in Pisa, the dancing interpretation is by the students of Valentina Bardelli's ‘Scuola Première Progetto Danza’.
Following this, a choreography of lights will be projected onto the south wall of the Monumental Cemetery, with the collaboration of the Opera Primaziale. It is the temporal evolution of the ‘wave function’, one of the simplest quantum processes called quantum walk. Videomapping represents the probability of finding a quantum particle in a region of space, once a measurement has been made. The more intense the light patterns will be, the greater the probability calculated using the famous Schroedinger equation. The videomaking is by Lorenzo Garzella's MUMU srl.
The year of quantum was established by UNESCO to celebrate 100 years since the beginning of the development of quantum mechanics. This fundamental physical theory, which has never yet been disproven by any experiment, continues to intrigue with its mysteries: both non-experts for its counterintuitive operation far removed from everyday experience, and experts for the numerous questions it raises as to why it works so well.
The scientific team is coordinated by Marilù Chiofalo and is composed of Jorge Yago Malo, Antonio Romano, Chiara Coviello, Vittoria Stanzione and Sebastiano Bresolin from the Department of Physics, with the collaboration of Ghislain Lefebvre and Dominique Wolfshagen from Sherbrooke, and Simon Goorney from Aarhus University at CircleU.
The event has the support of the Association for Frontiers Detectors for Frontiers Physics and the technical collaboration of Bufalini Francesco srl.
More information: maria.luisa.chiofalo@unipi.it
