Exploration of 4D-Data Spaces. Sonification in Lattice QCD

Abstract

We describe a pilot study on the sonification of data from lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, a branch of computational physics. This data is basically 4-dimensional and discretized on a lattice. The implementation allows interactive navigation through the data via different interfaces. Two different sonification schemes have been applied, giving information on small regions of the lattice. In real data sets we searched for structures that are hidden by quantum fluctuations. First results have been achieved with simplified data sets.