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Qubit semantics and quantum trees

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

In the qubit semantics the \emph{meaning} of any sentence α\alpha is represented by a \emph{quregister}: a unit vector of the nn--fold tensor product n\C2\otimes^n \C^2, where nn depends on the number of occurrences of atomic sentences in α\alpha. The logic characterized by this semantics, called {\it quantum computational logic} (QCL), is {\it unsharp}, because the non-contradiction principle is violated. We show that QCL does not admit any logical truth. In this framework, any sentence α\alpha gives rise to a \emph{quantum tree}, consisting of a sequence of unitary operators. The quantum tree of α\alpha can be regarded as a quantum circuit that transforms the quregister associated to the atomic subformulas of α\alpha into the quregster associated to α\alpha.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0211190,
  title  = {Qubit semantics and quantum trees},
  author = {M. L. Dalla Chiara and R. Giuntini and R. Leporini and A. Leporati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0211190},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures