Completeness of the ZH-calculus
Abstract
There are various gate sets used for describing quantum computation. A particularly popular one consists of Clifford gates and arbitrary single-qubit phase gates. Computations in this gate set can be elegantly described by the ZX-calculus, a graphical language for a class of string diagrams describing linear maps between qubits. The ZX-calculus has proven useful in a variety of areas of quantum information, but is less suitable for reasoning about operations outside its natural gate set such as multi-linear Boolean operations like the Toffoli gate. In this paper we study the ZH-calculus, an alternative graphical language of string diagrams that does allow straightforward encoding of Toffoli gates and other more complicated Boolean logic circuits. We find a set of simple rewrite rules for this calculus and show it is complete with respect to matrices over , which correspond to the approximately universal Toffoli+Hadamard gateset. Furthermore, we construct an extended version of the ZH-calculus that is complete with respect to matrices over any ring where is not a zero-divisor.
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@article{arxiv.2103.06610,
title = {Completeness of the ZH-calculus},
author = {Miriam Backens and Aleks Kissinger and Hector Miller-Bakewell and John van de Wetering and Sal Wolffs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.06610},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
68 pages, many many diagrams