The expressive power of quantum walks in terms of language acceptance
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
2014-08-04 v1 Emerging Technologies
Quantum Physics
Abstract
Discrete time quantum walks are known to be universal for quantum computation. This has been proven by showing that they can simulate a universal quantum gate set. In this paper, we examine computation by quantum walks in terms of language acceptance, and present two ways in which discrete time quantum walks can accept some languages with certainty. These walks can take quantum as well as classical inputs, and we show that when the input is quantum, the walks can also be interpreted as performing the task of quantum state discrimination.
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@article{arxiv.1408.0051,
title = {The expressive power of quantum walks in terms of language acceptance},
author = {Katie Barr and Viv Kendon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0051},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
In Proceedings QPL 2012, arXiv:1407.8427