Tech. Note: On the Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates

The Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates. Papercraft meets quantum computing. Print, cut, fold, and paste.

PDF: https://threeplusone.com/weyl

Source code: https://github.com/gecrooks/on_weyl

Further exposition: Gates, States, and Circuits: Notes on the circuit model of quantum computing

Release Notes

v5: Added A gates, special perfect entangling (SPE) gates
v4: Added Sycamore gate
v3: Added ECP and Dagwood-Bumstead gates, and various other tweaks.

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