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A Diagrammatic Approach to Quantum Dynamics

Author Stefano Gogioso



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Stefano Gogioso
  • University of Oxford, UK

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This publication was made possible through the support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

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Stefano Gogioso. A Diagrammatic Approach to Quantum Dynamics. In 8th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 139, pp. 19:1-19:23, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2019.19

Abstract

We present a diagrammatic approach to quantum dynamics based on the categorical algebraic structure of strongly complementary observables. We provide physical semantics to our approach in terms of quantum clocks and quantisation of time. We show that quantum dynamical systems arise naturally as the algebras of a certain dagger Frobenius monad, with the morphisms and tensor product of the category of algebras playing the role, respectively, of equivariant transformations and synchronised parallel composition of dynamical systems. We show that the Weyl Canonical Commutation Relations between time and energy are an incarnation of the bialgebra law and we derive Schrödinger’s equation from a process-theoretic perspective. Finally, we use diagrammatic symmetry-observable duality to prove Stone’s proposition and von Neumann’s Mean Ergodic proposition, recasting the results as two faces of the very same coin.

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ACM Subject Classification
  • Theory of computation → Quantum computation theory
  • Theory of computation → Categorical semantics
Keywords
  • Quantum dynamics
  • String diagrams
  • Categorical algebra

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