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Operator Spaces, Linear Logic and the Heisenberg-Schrödinger Duality of Quantum Theory

Published: May 9, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2505.06069v1

By: Bert Lindenhovius, Vladimir Zamdzhiev

Potential Business Impact:

Makes quantum computers work like real ones.

Business Areas:
Quantum Computing Science and Engineering

We show that the category OS of operator spaces, with complete contractions as morphisms, is locally countably presentable and a model of Intuitionistic Linear Logic in the sense of Lafont. We then describe a model of Classical Linear Logic, based on OS, whose duality is compatible with the Heisenberg-Schr\"odinger duality of quantum theory. We also show that OS provides a good setting for studying pure state and mixed state quantum information, the interaction between the two, and even higher-order quantum maps such as the quantum switch.

Page Count
19 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Logic in Computer Science