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A Functorial Construction of Quantum Subtheories

Mathematical Physics 2017-06-07 v1 Information Theory math.IT math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We apply the geometric quantization procedure via symplectic groupoids proposed by E. Hawkins to the setting of epistemically restricted toy theories formalized by Spekkens. In the continuous degrees of freedom, this produces the algebraic structure of quadrature quantum subtheories. In the odd-prime finite degrees of freedom, we obtain a functor from the Frobenius algebra in \textbf{Rel} of the toy theories to the Frobenius algebra of stabilizer quantum mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.1705.02971,
  title  = {A Functorial Construction of Quantum Subtheories},
  author = {Ivan Contreras and Ali Nabi Duman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02971},
  year   = {2017}
}

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19 pages