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arxiv: 1805.05296 · v1 · pith:3RRJKNBLnew · submitted 2018-05-14 · 🪐 quant-ph

A Generic Normal Form for ZX-Diagrams and Application to the Rational Angle Completeness

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keywords fragmentcliffordformnormalanglesaxiomatisationcompletecompleteness
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Recent completeness results on the ZX-Calculus used a third-party language, namely the ZW-Calculus. As a consequence, these proofs are elegant, but sadly non-constructive. We address this issue in the following. To do so, we first describe a generic normal form for ZX-diagrams in any fragment that contains Clifford+T quantum mechanics. We give sufficient conditions for an axiomatisation to be complete, and an algorithm to reach the normal form. Finally, we apply these results to the Clifford+T fragment and the general ZX-Calculus -- for which we already know the completeness--, but also for any fragment of rational angles: we show that the axiomatisation for Clifford+T is also complete for any fragment of dyadic angles, and that a simple new rule (called cancellation) is necessary and sufficient otherwise.

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