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We study whether such causal structure can be understood in terms of compositional structure of the unitary. Given a quantum circuit with no path from input system<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><mml:mi>A<\/mml:mi><\/mml:math>to output system<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><mml:mi>B<\/mml:mi><\/mml:math>, system<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><mml:mi>A<\/mml:mi><\/mml:math>cannot influence system<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><mml:mi>B<\/mml:mi><\/mml:math>. Conversely, given a unitary<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><mml:mi>U<\/mml:mi><\/mml:math>with a no-influence relation from input<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><mml:mi>A<\/mml:mi><\/mml:math>to output<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><mml:mi>B<\/mml:mi><\/mml:math>, it follows from [B. Schumacher and M. D. 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To address this, we introduce a new formalism of `extended circuit diagrams', which goes beyond what is expressible with quantum circuits, with the core new feature being the ability to represent direct sum structures in addition to sequential and tensor product composition. 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We derive causally faithful extended circuit decompositions for a large class of unitaries, where in each case, the decomposition is implied by the unitary's respective causal structure. 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