Build a toy quantum computer at home
While this is a nice demonstration of the polarization of light, this is not a demonstration of quantum mechanics, or quantum computing (though it does have pedagogical value, if qualified properly).<p>Polarizers essentially just project the electric field of the wave onto some axis, zeroing out the perpendicular component. Keeping in mind that light intensity is the square of the electric field strength, all of this can be explained through straightforward classical electrodynamics.<p>An analogous statement would be that interference of light (say through a pair of slits) is also quantum mechanical in nature. This isn't strictly wrong (since basically everything is quantum mechanical in nature when you get down to it) but is a misleading way to present something that can (and was) understood perfectly well before quantum mechanics came along.<p>Note: These kind of experiments for a single particle (e.g. photons, electrons, etc) are a different story and do provide a demonstration of quantum mechanics (and the combination of wave-like and particle-like properties intrinsic to it).