English

Quantum and braided ZX calculus

Quantum Algebra 2022-06-15 v2

Abstract

We revisit the notion of interacting Frobenius Hopf algebras for ZX-calculus in quantum computing, with focus on allowing the algebras to be noncommutative and coalgebras to be noncocommutative. We introduce the notion of *-structures in ZX-calculus at this algebraic level and construct examples based on the quantum group u_q(sl_2) at a root of unity. We provide an abstract formulation of the Hadamard gate at this level and clarify its relationship to Hopf algebra self-duality. We then solve the problem of extending the notion of interacting Hopf algebras and ZX-calculus to take place in a braided tensor category. In the ribbon case, the Hadamard gate coming from braided self-duality obeys a modular identity. We give the example of b_q(sl_2), the self-dual braided version of u_q(sl_2).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.07264,
  title  = {Quantum and braided ZX calculus},
  author = {Shahn Majid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.07264},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

29 pages AMSlatex, 7 figures; correction to prop 2.7 and minor improvements

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