Poincaré sphere may refer to:
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Poincaré sphere (optics)
Polarization ( also polarisation) is a property applying to transverse waves that specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations. In a transverse wave, the direction of the oscillation is perpendicular to the direction of motion of th ...
, a graphical tool for visualizing different types of polarized light
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Bloch sphere
In quantum quantum mechanics, mechanics and Quantum computing, computing, the Bloch sphere is a geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level system, two-level quantum mechanical system (qubit), named after the physicist Felix ...
, a related tool for representing states of a two-level quantum mechanical system
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Poincaré homology sphere
Poincaré is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science
* Henriette Poincaré (1858-1943), wife of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré
* Luci ...
, in mathematics, an example of a homology sphere
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