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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexa stub entry, for the moment just to make links work <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/ZX-calculus/1">v1</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ZX-calculus">current</a>

   a stub entry, for the moment just to make links work

   v1, current

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Bob Coecke]], [[Stefano Gogioso]], *Quantum in Pictures*, [Quantinuum Publications](https://www.quantinuum.com/publications) (2023) &lbrack;[ISBN 978-1739214715](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1739214714), [Quantinuum blog](https://www.quantinuum.com/news/quantum-in-pictures)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/ZX-calculus/4">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/ZX-calculus/4">v4</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ZX-calculus">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Bob Coecke, Stefano Gogioso, Quantum in Pictures, Quantinuum Publications (2023) [ISBN 978-1739214715, Quantinuum blog]

   diff, v4, current

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to * [[Bob Coecke]], [[Ross Duncan]], *A graphical calculus for quantum observables* &lbrack;[pdf](https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.coecke/GreenRed.pdf)&rbrack; which is apparently the unpublished note which later became [Cocke & Duncan (2011)](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ZX-calculus#CoeckeDuncan11) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/ZX-calculus/5">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/ZX-calculus/5">v5</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ZX-calculus">current</a>

   added pointer to

   • Bob Coecke, Ross Duncan, A graphical calculus for quantum observables [pdf]

   which is apparently the unpublished note which later became Cocke & Duncan (2011)

   diff, v5, current

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Ross Duncan]], [[Simon Perdrix]], *Rewriting Measurement-Based Quantum Computations with Generalised Flow*, in: *Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2010*, Lecture Notes in Computer Science **6199**, Springer (2010) &lbrack;[doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14162-1_24](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14162-1_24)&rbrack; whose effort to organize [[measurement-based quantum computation]] protocols is apparently the historical origin of the ZX-calculus <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/ZX-calculus/6">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/ZX-calculus/6">v6</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ZX-calculus">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Ross Duncan, Simon Perdrix, Rewriting Measurement-Based Quantum Computations with Generalised Flow, in: Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6199, Springer (2010) [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14162-1_24]

   whose effort to organize measurement-based quantum computation protocols is apparently the historical origin of the ZX-calculus

   diff, v6, current

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Bob Coecke]], [[Ross Duncan]], *Interacting Quantum Observables*, in *Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2008*, Lecture Notes in Computer Science **5126**, Springer (2008) &lbrack;[doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70583-3_25](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70583-3_25)&rbrack; which seems to be yet another incarnation of "the original article" <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/ZX-calculus/7">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/ZX-calculus/7">v7</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ZX-calculus">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Bob Coecke, Ross Duncan, Interacting Quantum Observables, in Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5126, Springer (2008) [doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70583-3_25]

   which seems to be yet another incarnation of “the original article”

   diff, v7, current

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexstarted adding some actual Idea of what the "calculus" is about ([here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ZX-calculus#Idea)) But before proceeding along these lines, I need now a stand-alone page for *[[Pauli quantum gates]]*... <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/ZX-calculus/7">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/ZX-calculus/7">v7</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ZX-calculus">current</a>

   started adding some actual Idea of what the “calculus” is about (here)

   But before proceeding along these lines, I need now a stand-alone page for Pauli quantum gates…

   diff, v7, current