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Abstract Physical Traces
Samson Abramsky, Bob Coecke
We revise our "Physical Traces" paper in the light of the results in "A Categorical Semantics of Quantum Protocols". The key fact is that the notion of a strongly compact closed ca…
quant-ph2009★ 38 cited
Categories for the practising physicist
Bob Coecke, Eric Oliver Paquette
In this chapter we survey some particular topics in category theory in a somewhat unconventional manner. Our main focus will be on monoidal categories, mostly symmetric ones, for w…
quant-ph2009★ 1 cited
Classical and quantum structuralism
Bob Coecke, Eric Oliver Paquette, Dusko Pavlovic
In recent work, symmetric dagger-monoidal (SDM) categories have emerged as a convenient categorical formalization of quantum mechanics. The objects represent physical systems, the…