[HN Gopher] Introduction to the ZX-Calculus
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       Introduction to the ZX-Calculus
        
       Author : EvgeniyZh
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-06-06 11:17 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | zzhelezc wrote:
       | Wow, I didn't expect to see ZX here. Its related to my PhD. You
       | can find a lot of ZX related literature on [1]. [2] is a really
       | nice introduction. If you want to play with it in python take a
       | look at pyzx [3].
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       | [1] https://zxcalculus.com/
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       | [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13966
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       | [3] https://github.com/Quantomatic/pyzx
        
         | pyinstallwoes wrote:
         | Why is it useful in a world where no quantum computer
         | physically exists?
        
           | JadeNB wrote:
           | Turing's and Church's investigations into the various
           | theoretical computing calculi are enormously useful, even
           | though both were done well before the existence of anything
           | we'd recognize as a modern computer.
        
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