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We derive the category-theoretic backbone of quantum theory from a process ontology. More specifically, we treat quantum theory as a theory of systems, processes and their interactions. In this first part of a three-part overview, we first…

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Ontological models, as used in the generalised contextuality literature, play a central role in current research on quantum foundations, providing a framework for defining classicality, constructing classical analogues of key quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Alisson Tezzin , Bárbara Amaral , Jonte R. Hance

We give a classification of all irreducible completely pointed $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_{n+1})$ modules over a characteristic zero field in which $q$ is not a root of unity. This generalizes the classification result of Benkart, Britten and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-09 V. Futorny , J. Hartwig , E. Wilson

Based on a clear ontology of material individuals, we analyze in detail the factual semantics of quantum theory, and argue that the basic mathematical formalism of quantum theory is just okay with (a certain form of ) realism and that it is…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Alejandro Ascárate

Ontological models are attempts to quantitatively describe the results of a probabilistic theory, such as Quantum Mechanics, in a framework exhibiting an explicit realism-based underpinning. Unlike either the well known quasi-probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-02 Nicholas Harrigan , Terry Rudolph , Scott Aaronson

We investigate the theory of finite observables, i.e., resolutions of the finite-dimensional identity by means of positive operators, that have a physical interpretation in terms of measurement schemes. We focus on extremal and rank-one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt

Massive quantum matter of prescribed spin permits infinitely many possibilities of covariantization in terms of spinorial (undotted/dotted) pointlike fields, whereas massless finite helicity representations lead to large gap in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-30 Bert Schroer

We construct a category of quantum polynomial functors which deforms Friedlander and Suslin's category of strict polynomial functors. The main aim of this paper is to develop from first principles the basic structural properties of this…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Jiuzu Hong , Oded Yacobi

In this work, we present a logical formalism for reasoning about quantum systems in finite dimension. Contrary to the usual approach in quantum logic, our formalism is based classical first-order logic, which allows us to use the tools of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Olivier Brunet

This thesis provides an introduction to the various category theory ideas employed in topological quantum field theory. These theories are viewed as symmetric monoidal functors from topological cobordism categories into the category of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bruce H. Bartlett

We reconstruct finite-dimensional quantum theory from categorical principles. That is, we provide properties ensuring that a given physical theory described by a dagger compact category in which one may `discard' objects is equivalent to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Sean Tull

Let $\mathrm{VI}$ be the category of finite dimensional $\mathbb{F}_q$-vector spaces whose morphisms are injective linear maps, and let $\mathbf{k}$ be a noetherian ring. We study the category of functors from $\mathrm{VI}$ to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Rohit Nagpal

The quantum mechanical formalism doesn't support our intuition, nor does it elucidate the key concepts that govern the behaviour of the entities that are subject to the laws of quantum physics. The arrays of complex numbers are kin to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bob Coecke

In the framework of locally covariant quantum field theory, a theory is described as a functor from a category of spacetimes to a category of *-algebras. It is proposed that the global gauge group of such a theory can be identified as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Christopher J. Fewster

We describe a universal factorization for a functor with values in finite-dimensional measured algebras. More precisely we contruct the quantum automorphism group of this functor. This general recontruction result allows us to recapture a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julien Bichon

We introduce novel methods for implementing generic quantum information within a scale-free architecture. For a given observable system, we show how observational outcomes are taken to be finite bit strings induced by measurement operators…

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The completeness of quantum mechanics in predictive power is a central question in its foundational study. While most investigations focus on two-dimensional systems, high-dimensional systems are more general and widely applicable. Building…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Jianqi Sheng , Dongkai Zhang , Lixiang Chen

Many quantum field theories in one, two and four dimensions possess remarkable limits in which the instantons are present, the anti-instantons are absent, and the perturbative corrections are reduced to one-loop. We analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Frenkel , A. Losev , N. Nekrasov

In the framework of ontological models, the inherently nonclassical features of quantum theory always seem to involve properties that are fine tuned, i.e. properties that hold at the operational level but break at the ontological level.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Lorenzo Catani , Matthew Leifer

We review three examples of functors from Lorentzian categories and their applications in finiteness results, singularity theorems and boundary constructions. The third example is a novel functor from the category of ordered measure spaces…

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