Semantic Techniques in Quantum Computation

Simon Gay is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. Prior to taking his current position, he worked as a research associate at Imperial College London, where he also earned his PhD in computer science, and as a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. Ian Mackie earned his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science at Imperial College London. He is editor-in-chief of an undergraduate textbook series and co-author of an advanced textbook on proof theory and automated deduction.

• 1. No-cloning in categorical quantum mechanics Samson Abramsky; 2. Classical and quantum structuralism Bob Coecke, Eric Oliver Paquette, and Dusko Pavlovic; 3. Generalized proof-nets for compact categories with biproducts Ross Duncan; 4. The structure of partial isometries Peter Hines and Sam Braunstein; 5. Extended measurement calculus Vincent Danos, Elham Kashefi, Prakash Panangaden, and Simon Perdrix; 6. Abstract interpretation techniques for quantum computation Philippe Jorrand and Simon Perdrix; 7. Predicate transformer semantics of quantum programs Mingsheng Ying, Yuan Feng, Runyao Duan, and Zhengfeng Ji; 8. The quantum io monad Thorsten Altenkirch and Alexander Green; 9. Quantum lambda calculus Peter Selinger and Benoıt Valiron; 10. Temporal logics for reasoning about quantum systems Paulo Mateus, Jaime Ramos, Amılcar Sernadas, and Cristina Sernadas; 11. Specification and verification of quantum protocols Simon Gay, Rajagopal Nagarajan, and Nick Papanikolaou.

"This is a well written and interesting research oriented book. I write"research oriented" because I could not imagine using it in class as a textbook, although some of the articles might interest some post-graduate students. But indeed this book provides a great source of information for all researchers working in the elds of logic, semantics, and quantum computation." Kyriakos N. Sgarbas, SIGACT News