Abstract
We recast Selinger's CPM-construction of mixed states completely positive maps [P. Selinger (2007) Dagger compact closed categories and completely positive maps. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Quantum Programming Languages (QPL 2005), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 170, 139–163. Available from Peter Selinger's homepage] as an axiomatization of maximally mixed states. This axiomatization also guarantees categories of completely positive maps to satisfy the preparation-state agreement axiom of [Coecke, B. (2007) De-linearizing linearity: projective quantum axiomatics from strong compact closure. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Quantum Programming Languages (QPL 2005), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 170, 49–72. E-print: arXiv:quant-ph/0506134], and admits a physical interpretation in terms of purification of mixed states and CPMs. Internal traces, which are crucial in quantum information theory, are the adjoints to these maximally mixed states.
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