This chapter provides an introduction to the use of diagrammatic language, or
perhaps more accurately, diagrammatic calculus, in quantum information and
quantum foundations. We illustrate the use of diagrammatic calculus in one
particular case, namely the study of complementarity and non-locality, two
fundamental concepts of quantum theory whose relationship we explore in later
part of this chapter.
The diagrammatic calculus that we are concerned with here is not merely an
illustrative tool, but it has both (i) a conceptual physical backbone, which
allows it to act as a foundation for diverse physical theories, and (ii) a
genuine mathematical underpinning, permitting one to relate it to standard
mathematical structures.Comment: To appear as a Springer book chapter chapter, edited by G.
Chirabella, R. Spekken