Date
Tue, 15 Jan 2008
Time
11:00 - 12:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Bob Coecke (Computing Lab)

We provide both a diagrammatic and logical system to reason about

quantum phenomena. Essential features are entanglement, the flow of

information from the quantum systems into the classical measurement

contexts, and back---these flows are crucial for several quantum informatic

scheme's such as quantum teleportation---, and mutually unbiassed

observables---e.g. position and momentum. The formal structures we use are

kin to those of topological quantum field theories---e.g. monoidal

categories, compact closure, Frobenius objects, coalgebras. We show that

our diagrammatic/logical language is universal. Informal

appetisers can be found in:

* Introducing Categories to the Practicing Physicist

http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/bob.coecke/Cats.pdf

* Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510032

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