# Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics

• Published in 2005
These lecture notes survey some joint work with Samson Abramsky as it was presented by me at several conferences in the summer of 2005. It concerns doing quantum mechanics using only pictures of lines, squares, triangles and diamonds'. This picture calculus can be seen as a very substantial extension of Dirac's notation, and has a purely algebraic counterpart in terms of so-called Strongly Compact Closed Categories (introduced by Abramsky and I in quant-ph/0402130 and [4]) which subsumes my Logic of Entanglement quant-ph/0402014. For a survey on the what', the why' and the hows' I refer to a previous set of lecture notes quant-ph/0506132. In a last section we provide some pointers to the body of technical literature on the subject.

## Other information

arxivId
quant-ph/0510032
keywords
-a quantum information,-w quantum mechanics,03,65,67,category theory,dirac notation,graphical calculus,logic,pacs,quantum formalism
pages
18

### BibTeX entry

@article{Coecke2005,
abstract = {These lecture notes survey some joint work with Samson Abramsky as it was presented by me at several conferences in the summer of 2005. It concerns doing quantum mechanics using only pictures of lines, squares, triangles and diamonds'. This picture calculus can be seen as a very substantial extension of Dirac's notation, and has a purely algebraic counterpart in terms of so-called Strongly Compact Closed Categories (introduced by Abramsky and I in quant-ph/0402130 and [4]) which subsumes my Logic of Entanglement quant-ph/0402014. For a survey on the what', the why' and the hows' I refer to a previous set of lecture notes quant-ph/0506132. In a last section we provide some pointers to the body of technical literature on the subject.},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
arxivId = {quant-ph/0510032},
author = {Coecke, Bob},
eprint = 0510032,
keywords = {-a quantum information,-w quantum mechanics,03,65,67,category theory,dirac notation,graphical calculus,logic,pacs,quantum formalism},
month = {oct},
pages = 18,
primaryClass = {quant-ph},
title = {Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510032},
year = 2005,
urldate = {2013-05-28}
}