SZX-calculus: Scalable Graphical Quantum Reasoning
Abstract
We introduce the Scalable ZX-calculus (SZX-calculus for short), a formal and compact graphical language for the design and verification of quantum computations. The SZX-calculus is an extension of the ZX-calculus, a powerful framework that captures graphically the fundamental properties of quantum mechanics through its complete set of rewrite rules. The ZX-calculus is, however, a low level language, with each wire representing a single qubit. This limits its ability to handle large and elaborate quantum evolutions. We extend the ZX-calculus to registers of qubits and allow compact representation of sub-diagrams via binary matrices. We show soundness and completeness of the SZX-calculus and provide two examples of applications, for graph states and error correcting codes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.00041,
title = {SZX-calculus: Scalable Graphical Quantum Reasoning},
author = {Titouan Carette and Dominic Horsman and Simon Perdrix},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00041},
year = {2020}
}