Categories of Quantum and Classical Channels (extended abstract)

We introduce the CP*–construction on a dagger compact closed category as a generalisation of Selinger's CPM-construction. While the latter takes a dagger compact closed category and forms its category of "abstract matrix algebras" and completely positive maps, the CP*-construction for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bob Coecke, Chris Heunen, Aleks Kissinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2014-07-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.0049v1