3 papers
quant-ph2026
String Diagrams for Quantum Foundations, Computing and Natural Language Processing
Muhammad Hamza Waseem
Applied category theory provides powerful mathematical tools for modelling processes and their composition. Symmetric monoidal categories, which involve series and parallel composi…
physics.ed-ph2025
High schoolers excel at Oxford quantum course using pictorial mathematics
Bob Coecke, Aleks Kissinger, Stefano Gogioso +12
We are at the dawn of the second quantum revolution, where our ability to create and control individual quantum systems is poised to drive transformative advancements in basic scie…
physics.ed-ph2025
Making the quantum world accessible to young learners through Quantum Picturalism: An experimental study
Selma Dündar-Coecke, Caterina Puca, Lia Yeh +12
The educational value of a fully diagrammatic approach in a scientific field has never been explored. We present Quantum Picturalism (QPic), an entirely diagrammatic formalism for…