How to sum and exponentiate Hamiltonians in ZXW calculus

How to sum and exponentiate Hamiltonians in ZXW calculus

Razin A. Shaikh, Quanlong Wang, Richie Yeung
Quantinuum

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ABSTRACT

This paper develops practical summation techniques in ZXW calculus to reason about quantum dynamics, such as unitary time evolution. First we give a direct representation of a wide class of sums of linear operators, including arbitrary qubits Hamiltonians, in ZXW calculus. As an application, we demonstrate the linearity of the Schr"odinger equation and give a diagrammatic representation of the Hamiltonian in Greene-Diniz et al (Gabriel