I'm a beginner in studying quantum info, and I'm a little confused about the representation of a qubit with a Bloch Sphere. Wikipedia says that we can use |Ψ⟩=cosθ2|0⟩+eiϕsinθ2|1⟩ to represent a pure state, and map it to the polar coordinates of the sphere. What I'm not sure about is, where does the "θ2" come in?
I mean, in polar coordinate, the vector equals cosθ ˆz+eiϕsinθ ˆx, but even if we use ˆz=|0⟩ and ˆx=|0⟩+|1⟩, it's still different from above. How could this be transformed into the formula above?
Or... does this mean that the sphere is simply a graphical representation of θ and ϕ, while |0⟩ and |1⟩ do not geometrically correspond to any vector on the sphere? (but here it writes ˆz=|0⟩ and −ˆz=|1⟩...)
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