The Yang-Baxter equation, (quantum) computers and unifying theories (Q2345060)

Summary: Quantum mechanics has had an important influence on building computers;nowadays, quantum mechanics principles are used for the processing and transmission of information. The Yang-Baxter equation is related to the universal gates from quantum computing and it realizes a unification of certain nonassociative structures. Unifying structures could be seen as structures which comprise the information contained in other (algebraic) structures. Recently, we gave the axioms of a structure which unifies associative algebras, Lie algebras and Jordan algebras. Our paper is a review and a continuation of that approach. It also contains several geometric considerations.