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Operator Spaces, Linear Logic and the Heisenberg-Schr\"odinger Duality of Quantum Theory

Logic in Computer Science 2025-05-12 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that the category OS of operator spaces, with complete contractions as morphisms, is locally countably presentable and a model of Intuitionistic Linear Logic in the sense of Lafont. We then describe a model of Classical Linear Logic, based on OS, whose duality is compatible with the Heisenberg-Schr\"odinger duality of quantum theory. We also show that OS provides a good setting for studying pure state and mixed state quantum information, the interaction between the two, and even higher-order quantum maps such as the quantum switch.

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@article{arxiv.2505.06069,
  title  = {Operator Spaces, Linear Logic and the Heisenberg-Schr\"odinger Duality of Quantum Theory},
  author = {Bert Lindenhovius and Vladimir Zamdzhiev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.06069},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

To appear in LICS'25. See our paper arXiv:2412.20999 for some additional proofs