Eric Forgy Categorical Quantum Mechanics

Note: This page is a collection of notes. If anything takes shape, I may move some material to the main nLab.

Idea

One of the primary goals of this page is to rephrase material as presented in:

• Caleb J. O’Loan, Topics in Estimation of Quantum Channels , PhD thesis, University of St. Andrews, (arXiv)

into the language of category theory.

This is not necessarily an exercise in physics as much as it is an exercise in semantics. In other words, our goal is modest. We simply want to rephrase standard material in an alternative language.