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For $q=(q_0,q_1,q_2,q_3)\in S^3$, the vectors $(-q_1,q_0,q_3,-q_2)$, $(-q_2,-q_3,q_0,q_1)$ and $(-q_3,q_2,-q_1,q_0)$ are tangent and orthonormal. Under SU(2) as the three-sphere they are the left-invariant vector fields obtained by translating $-i$ times the Pauli matrices. This explicitly realizes the parallelization of a Lie group by left translations.

A one-qubit rotation gate is $R_{\alpha }(\theta )=e^{-i\theta {\sigma }_{\alpha }/2}$, where ${\sigma }_{\alpha }$ is a Pauli matrix. It rotates the Bloch vector by angle $\theta$ about the corresponding axis.

The unit Skyrmion has a spherically symmetric ansatz with Pauli matrices $\mathbf{\sigma }$, $f(0)=\pi$ and $f(\infty )=0$. The baryon number isThe radial profile is obtained from the Skyrme model variational equation. Spatial rotations and isospin rotations act on the same hedgehog orientation, leaving only three independent rotational collective coordinates.

In units $\hslash =1$, spin one-half is the two-dimensional irreducible spin angular momentum representation with components $S_i={\sigma }_i/2$. The Pauli matrices give eigenvalues $\pm 1/2$ along every unit axis. The normalized $x$-axis states are $(|{\uparrow }_z⟩\pm |{\downarrow }_z⟩)/\sqrt{2}$.

Superdense coding uses a shared Bell state to communicate two classical bits by transmitting one qubit. The sender selects one of the four Bell states with a local Pauli operation, and the receiver performs a Bell-basis measurement.