Supplementarity is necessary for quantum diagram reasoning

The ZX-calculus is a powerful diagrammatic language for quantum mechanics and quantum information processing. We prove that itsπ4-fragment is not complete, in other words the ZXcalculus is not complete for the so called "Clifford+T quantum mechanics". The completeness of this fragment was...

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Main Authors: Perdrix, S, Wang, Q
格式: Conference item
出版: Schloss Dagstuhl 2016
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總結:The ZX-calculus is a powerful diagrammatic language for quantum mechanics and quantum information processing. We prove that itsπ4-fragment is not complete, in other words the ZXcalculus is not complete for the so called "Clifford+T quantum mechanics". The completeness of this fragment was one of the main open problems in categorical quantum mechanics, a programme initiated by Abramsky and Coecke. The ZX-calculus was known to be incomplete for quantum mechanics. On the other hand, itsπ2-fragment is known to be complete, i.e. The ZX-calculus is complete for the so called "stabilizer quantum mechanics". Deciding whether itsπ4-fragment is complete is a crucial step in the development of the ZX-calculus since this fragment is approximately universal for quantum mechanics, contrary to theπ2-fragment. To establish our incompleteness result, we consider a fairly simple property of quantum states called supplementarity. We show that supplementarity can be derived in the ZX-calculus if and only if the angles involved in this equation are multiples of π/2. In particular, the impossibility to derive supplementarity for π/4 implies the incompleteness of the ZX-calculus for Clifford+T quantum mechanics. As a consequence, we propose to add the supplementarity to the set of rules of the ZX-calculus. We also show that if a ZX-diagram involves antiphase twins, they can be merged when the ZX-calculus is augmented with the supplementarity rule. Merging antiphase twins makes diagrammatic reasoning much easier and provides a purely graphical meaning to the supplementarity rule.