Logic and Algebraic Structures in Quantum Computing [Hardcover]

Experts in the field explore the connections across physics, quantum logic, and quantum computing.In this international cross-disciplinary collaboration, leading experts explore connections across their respective fields. The book offers an insight into the fundamental questions in quantum theory and logic, which will appeal to many researchers and graduate students including logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists.In this international cross-disciplinary collaboration, leading experts explore connections across their respective fields. The book offers an insight into the fundamental questions in quantum theory and logic, which will appeal to many researchers and graduate students including logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists.Arising from a special session held at the 2010 North American Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, this volume is an international cross-disciplinary collaboration with contributions from leading experts exploring connections across their respective fields. Themes range from philosophical examination of the foundations of physics and quantum logic, to exploitations of the methods and structures of operator theory, category theory, and knot theory in an effort to gain insight into the fundamental questions in quantum theory and logic. The book will appeal to researchers and students working in related fields, including logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists. A brief introduction provides essential background on quantum mechanics and category theory, which, together with a thematic selection of articles, may also serve as the basic material for a graduate course or seminar.Preface Jennifer Chubb, Ali Eskandarian and Valentina Harizanov; Introduction Jennifer Chubb, Ali Eskandarian and Valentina Harizanov; 1. A (very) brief tour of quantum mechanics, computation, and category theory Jennifer Chubb and Valentina Harizanov; 2. Could logic be empirical? The PulB