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This article provides an alternate characterization of dagger categories, which are central to the study of categorical quantum mechanics, in terms of inner product categories. An inner product category is an "achiral involutive" category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Robin Cockett , Durgesh Kumar , Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

The aim of this note is to recast somewhat informal axiom system of quantum mechanics used by physicists (Dirac calculus) in the language of Continuous Logic. We note an analogy between Tarski's notion of cylindric algebras, as a tool of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Boris Zilber

This is the first paper in a series where we generalize the Categorical Quantum Mechanics program (due to Abramsky, Coecke, et al) to braided systems. In our view a uniform description of quantum information for braided systems has not yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 Spencer D. Stirling , Yong-Shi Wu

We propose a new framework for integrating quantifiers with other logical connectives in a higher-categorical setting. Our method systematically incorporates key coherence conditions-including those akin to the Beck-Chevalley property-and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Barreto Joaquim Reizi

We introduce an approach to the categorification of rings, via the notion of distributive categories with negative objects, and use it to lay down categorical foundations for the study of super, quantum and non-commutative combinatorics.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-27 Rafael Diaz , Eddy Pariguan

A constructive approach to differential calculus on quantum principal bundles is presented. The calculus on the bundle is built in an intrinsic manner, starting from given graded (differential) *-algebras representing horizontal forms on…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Mico Durdevic

In this work we build a quantum logic that allows us to refer to physical magnitudes pertaining to different contexts from a fixed one without the contradictions with quantum mechanics expressed in no-go theorems. This logic arises from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Graciela Domenech , Hector Freytes

We consider orthomodular posets endowed with a symmetric difference. We call them ODPs. Expressed in the quantum logic language, we consider quantum logics with an XOR-type connective. We study three classes of "almost Boolean" ODPs, two of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Mirko Navara , Pavel Pták

We introduce a construction that turns a category of pure state spaces and operators into a category of observable algebras and superoperators. For example, it turns the category of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces into the category of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Bob Coecke , Chris Heunen , Aleks Kissinger

We consider a proper propositional quantum logic and show that it has multiple disjoint lattice models, only one of which is an orthomodular lattice (algebra) underlying Hilbert (quantum) space. We give an equivalent proof for the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-19 Mladen Pavicic

A dagger category is a category equipped with a functorial way of reversing morphisms, i.e. a contravariant involutive identity-on-objects endofunctor. Dagger categories with additional structure have been studied under different names e.g.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Martti Karvonen

A geometric framework for describing quantum particles on a possibly curved background is proposed. Natural constructions on certain distributional bundles (`quantum bundles') over the spacetime manifold yield a quantum ``formalism'' along…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Canarutto

Differentiable Logics are deployed in neuro-symbolic learning tasks as a way of embedding logical constraints in the training objective of neural networks. A differentiable logic consists of a syntax to write logical properties and a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Thomas Flinkow , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matteo Capucci , Rosemary Monahan

Contextuality is a key signature of quantum non-classicality, which has been shown to play a central role in enabling quantum advantage for a wide range of information-processing and computational tasks. We study the logic of contextuality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Samson Abramsky , Rui Soares Barbosa

We introduce a logic modelling some aspects of the behaviour of the measurement process, in such a way that no direct mention of quantum states is made, thus avoiding the problems associated to this rather evasive notion. We then study some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Olivier Brunet

When a physicist performs a quantic measurement, new information about the system at hand is gathered. This paper studies the logical properties of how this new information is combined with previous information. It presents Quantum Logic as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-24 Daniel Lehmann

Motivated by applications in modelling quantum systems using coalgebraic techniques, we introduce a fibred coalgebraic logic. Our approach extends the conventional predicate lifting semantics with additional modalities relating conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Daniel Marsden

We give a mathematical framework to describe the evolution of an open quantum systems subjected to finitely many interactions with classical apparatuses. The systems in question may be composed of distinct, spatially separated subsystems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Blute , I. T. Ivanov , P. Panangaden

Neural networks excel at pattern recognition but struggle with reliable logical reasoning, often violating basic logical principles during inference. We address this limitation by developing a categorical framework that systematically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Logan Nye

This paper reveals a categorical equivalence connecting two distinct quantum logic structures. The first is the orthomodular lattice, an algebraic system designed to formalize the properties of quantum systems. The second is a finitary…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Juanda Kelana Putra , Richard Smolka