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Operational Theories of Physics as Categories (1602.06284v1)
Published 19 Feb 2016 in math-ph, cs.LO, math.CT, math.MP, and quant-ph
Abstract: We introduce a new approach to the study of operational theories of physics using category theory. We define a generalisation of the (causal) operational-probabilistic theories of Chiribella et al. and establish their correspondence with our new notion of an operational category. Our work is based on effectus theory, a recently developed area of categorical logic, to which we give an operational interpretation, demonstrating its relevance to the modelling of general probabilistic theories.
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