Making the stabilizer ZX-calculus complete for scalars

The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for quantum processes with built-in rewrite rules. The rewrite rules allow equalities to be derived entirely graphically, leading to the question of completeness: can any equality that is derivable using matrices also be derived graphically? The ZX-calculus i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miriam Backens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2015-11-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.03854v2