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   • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
   • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2023
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   Format: MarkdownItexAdded the new * [[Bob Coecke]], Stefano Gogioso, _Quantum in Pictures: A New Way to Understand the Quantum World_, ([ISBN 978-1739214715](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1739214714)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Bob+Coecke/11">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Bob+Coecke/11">v11</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Bob+Coecke">current</a>

   Added the new

   • Bob Coecke, Stefano Gogioso, Quantum in Pictures: A New Way to Understand the Quantum World, (ISBN 978-1739214715)

   diff, v11, current

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   • CommentAuthorUrs
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   Format: MarkdownItexadded the publication year looks like this ought to be listed ay *[[ZX-calculus]]* <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Bob+Coecke/12">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Bob+Coecke/12">v12</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Bob+Coecke">current</a>

   added the publication year

   looks like this ought to be listed ay ZX-calculus

   diff, v12, current

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   • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
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   Format: MarkdownItexI guess so. But maybe it would be more efficient to include it in [[quantum information theory via string diagrams -- references]]. It would help me to know what these different systems are. Do all these things count as 'quantum programming languages': Linear HoTT, ZX-calculus, Quipper, QS,...?

   I guess so. But maybe it would be more efficient to include it in quantum information theory via string diagrams – references.

   It would help me to know what these different systems are. Do all these things count as ’quantum programming languages’: Linear HoTT, ZX-calculus, Quipper, QS,…?

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   Format: MarkdownItexZX-calculus is just a circuit specification language. In languages like Quipper there are actual classical programming constructs, such as loops of case distinctions.

   ZX-calculus is just a circuit specification language. In languages like Quipper there are actual classical programming constructs, such as loops of case distinctions.

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   • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
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   Format: MarkdownItexSo might there be some kind of embedding result for ZX in QS?

   So might there be some kind of embedding result for ZX in QS?

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   • CommentAuthorUrs
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   Format: MarkdownItexYes, but it's not for deep reasons: ZX is just a boxing of frequently occurring sub-circuits, and `QS` is a universal language. So your question is much like asking for an embedding of the game of domino tiles into a language like `C`. Sure that's possible and it's not surprising either. I'll get back to `QS` soon, and then it may become clearer to you what I am saying here. (Last November I thought for a while we finish the linear programming article first, but now we went back to first finalizing the one on topological gates. But that is converging now, a preliminary version should be a available within days.)

   Yes, but it’s not for deep reasons: ZX is just a boxing of frequently occurring sub-circuits, and QS is a universal language.

   So your question is much like asking for an embedding of the game of domino tiles into a language like C. Sure that’s possible and it’s not surprising either.

   I’ll get back to QS soon, and then it may become clearer to you what I am saying here.

   (Last November I thought for a while we finish the linear programming article first, but now we went back to first finalizing the one on topological gates. But that is converging now, a preliminary version should be a available within days.)