no code implementations • 11 Mar 2021 • Miriam Backens, Aleks Kissinger, Hector Miller-Bakewell, John van de Wetering, Sal Wolffs
There are various gate sets used for describing quantum computation.
Quantum Physics
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2021 • Bob Coecke, Dominic Horsman, Aleks Kissinger, Quanlong Wang
This paper is a `spiritual child' of the 2005 lecture notes Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics, which showed how a simple, pictorial extension of Dirac notation allowed several quantum features to be easily expressed and derived, using language even a kindergartner can understand.
1 code implementation • 3 Dec 2020 • Filippo Bonchi, Fabio Gadducci, Aleks Kissinger, Pawel Sobocinski, Fabio Zanasi
In the last part, we also see that the approach can be generalised to model rewriting modulo multiple Frobenius structures.
Logic in Computer Science Category Theory
5 code implementations • 9 Apr 2019 • Aleks Kissinger, John van de Wetering
The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for reasoning about ZX-diagrams, a tensor network-like language that can represent arbitrary linear maps between qubits.
Quantum Physics
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2018 • Bart Jacobs, Aleks Kissinger, Fabio Zanasi
We represent the effect of such an intervention as an endofunctor which performs `string diagram surgery' within the syntactic category of string diagrams.