Authors: Đorđević, Dušan
Petrić, Zoran 
Zekić, Mladen 
Affiliations: Mathematics 
Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 
Title: A graphical language for quantum protocols based on the category of cobordisms
Journal: Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations
Issue Date: 2024
ISSN: 2196-5609
DOI: 10.1007/s40509-024-00341-8
Abstract: 
As shown by Abramsky and Coecke, quantum mechanics can be studied in terms of dagger compact closed categories with biproducts. Within this structure, many well-known quantum protocols can be described and their validity can be shown by establishing the commutativity of certain diagrams in that category. In this paper, we propose an explicit realization of a category with enough structure to check the validity of a certain class of quantum protocols. To do this, we construct a category based on one-dimensional cobordisms with attached elements of a certain group freely generated by a finite set. We use this category as a graphical language, and we show that it is dagger compact closed with biproducts. Then relying on the coherence result for compact closed categories, proved by Kelly and Laplaza, we show the coherence result, which enables us to check the validity of quantum protocols just by drawing diagrams. In particular, we show the validity of quantum teleportation, entanglement swapping (as formulated in the work of Abramsky and Coecke) and superdense coding protocol.
Publisher: Springer Link

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