Toy quantum categories (Extended Abstract)

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-40

  Coecke, Bob ^a   Edwards, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AXIOMATICS; CARTESIAN PRODUCTS; EXTENDED ABSTRACTS; FINITE DIMENSIONAL; FINITE SET; MONOIDAL CATEGORIES; QUANTUM OBSERVABLES; TOY MODELS;

HILBERT SPACES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 79551675498     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2011.01.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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