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An unsharp logic from quantum computation

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

Logical gates studied in quantum computation suggest a natural logical abstraction that gives rise to a new form of unsharp quantum logic. We study the logical connectives corresponding to the following gates: the Toffoli gate, the NOT and the squareroot of NOT (which admit of natural physical models). This leads to a semantic characterization of a logic that we call computational quantum logic CQL.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0201013,
  title  = {An unsharp logic from quantum computation},
  author = {G. Cattaneo and M. L. Dalla Chiara and R. Giuntini and R. Leporini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0201013},
  year   = {2007}
}