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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…