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We construct a polynomial-time classical algorithm that samples from the output distribution of noisy geometrically local Clifford circuits with any product-state input and single-qubit measurements in any basis. Our results apply to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Jon Nelson , Joel Rajakumar , Dominik Hangleiter , Michael J. Gullans

This work introduces and characterizes quantum sequential circuits (QSCs) as a hardware-oriented paradigm for quantum computing, built upon a novel foundational element termed the quantum transistor. Unlike conventional qubit-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 D. -S. Wang

As the prototypical category, $\mathbf{Set}$ has many properties which make it special amongst categories. From the point of view of mathematical logic, one such property is that $\mathbf{Set}$ has enough structure to "properly" formalise…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Jordan Mitchell Barrett

We use the framework of "props" to study electrical circuits, signal-flow diagrams, and bond graphs. A prop is a strict symmetric monoidal category where the objects are natural numbers, with the tensor product of objects given by addition.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Brandon Coya

Digital circuits, despite having been studied for nearly a century and used at scale for about half that time, have until recently evaded a fully compositional theoretical in which arbitrary circuits may be freely composed together without…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Dan R. Ghica , George Kaye , David Sprunger

Nakano's "later" modality, inspired by G\"{o}del-L\"{o}b provability logic, has been applied in type systems and program logics to capture guarded recursion. Birkedal et al modelled this modality via the internal logic of the topos of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Ranald Clouston , Rajeev Goré

This paper aims at carrying out termination proofs for simply typed higher-order calculi automatically by using ordering comparisons. To this end, we introduce the computability path ordering (CPO), a recursive relation on terms obtained by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Frédéric Blanqui , Jean-Pierre Jouannaud , Albert Rubio

Quantum supermaps provide a framework in which higher order quantum processes can act on lower order quantum processes. In doing so, they enable the definition and analysis of new quantum protocols and causal structures. Recently, key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Matt Wilson , Giulio Chiribella

Learning causal structure among event types on multi-type event sequences is an important but challenging task. Existing methods, such as the Multivariate Hawkes processes, mostly assumed that each sequence is independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ruichu Cai , Siyu Wu , Jie Qiao , Zhifeng Hao , Keli Zhang , Xi Zhang

The consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics is traditionally based on linearly ordered sequences of events. We extend the histories formalism to sets of events whose causal ordering is described by directed acyclic graphs. The…

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

The study of complex systems through the lens of category theory consistently proves to be a powerful approach. We propose that cognition deserves the same category-theoretic treatment. We show that by considering a highly-compact cognitive…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-04 Sophie Alyx Taylor , Son Cao Tran , Dan V. Nicolau

In this paper, we explore topological quantum computation augmented by subphases and phase transitions. We commence by investigating the anyon tunneling map, denoted as $\varphi$, between subphases of the quantum double model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Yuanjie Ren , Peter Shor

We write down a series of basic laws for (strict) higher-order circuit diagrams. More precisely, we define higher-order circuit theories in terms of: (a) nesting, (b) temporal and spatial composition, and (c) equivalence between lower-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Matt Wilson

Algorithmicists are well-aware that fast dynamic programming algorithms are very often the correct choice when computing on compositional (or even recursive) graphs. Here we initiate the study of how to generalize this folklore intuition to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Ernst Althaus , Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , James Fairbanks , Daniel Rosiak

Nested graphs have been used in different applications, for example to represent knowledge in semantic networks. On the other hand, graphs with cycles are really important in surface reconstruction, periodic schedule and network analysis.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 María Carrasco , Zenaida Castillo , Nerio Borges , Ramón Pino Pérez

We show that a functor category whose domain is a colored category is a topos.The topos structure enables us to introduce cohomology of colored categories including quasi-schemoids. If the given colored category arises from an association…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Katsuhiko Kuribayashi , Yasuhiude Numata

Complex systems of systems (SoS) are characterized by multiple interconnected subsystems. Typically, each subsystem is designed and analyzed using methodologies and formalisms that are specific to the particular subsystem model of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Alberto Speranzon , David I. Spivak , Srivatsan Varadarajan

A system of diagrams is introduced that allows the representation of various elements of a quantum circuit, including measurements, in a form which makes no reference to time (hence ``atemporal''). It can be used to relate quantum dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert B. Griffiths , Shengjun Wu , Li Yu , Scott M. Cohen

In type theory, coinductive types are used to represent processes, and are thus crucial for the formal verification of non-terminating reactive programs in proof assistants based on type theory, such as Coq and Agda. Currently, programming…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg , Niccolò Veltri

A topos theoretic generalisation of the category of sets allows for modelling spaces which vary according to time intervals. Persistent homology, or more generally, persistence is a central tool in topological data analysis, which examines…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-06-23 João Pita Costa , Mikael Vejdemo Johansson , Primož Škraba