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A Complete Axiomatisation of the ZX-Calculus for Clifford+T Quantum Mechanics

Authors: Emmanuel Jeandel, Simon Perdrix and Renaud Vilmart

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Title:A Complete Axiomatisation of the ZX-Calculus for Clifford+T Quantum Mechanics
Authors:Emmanuel Jeandel, Simon Perdrix and Renaud Vilmart
Proceedings:LICS PDF files
Editors: Anuj Dawar and Erich Grädel
Keywords:Categorical Quantum Mechanics, Diagrammatic Reasoning, Quantum Computing
Abstract:

ABSTRACT. We introduce the first complete and approximatively universal diagrammatic language for quantum mechanics. We make the ZX-Calculus, a diagrammatic language introduced by Coecke and Duncan, complete for the so-called Clifford+T quantum mechanics by adding two new axioms to the language. The completeness of the ZX-Calculus for Clifford+T quantum mechanics was one of the main open questions in categorical quantum mechanics. We prove the completeness of the Clifford+T ZX-Calculus using the recently studied ZW-Calculus, a calculus dealing with integer matrices. We also prove that this fragment of the ZX-Calculus represents exactly all the matrices over some finite dimensional extension of the ring of dyadic rationals.

Pages:10
Talk:Jul 12 09:40 (Session 70D)
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