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One of the most intriguing facts about communication using quantum states is that these states cannot be used to transmit more classical bits than the number of qubits used, yet there are ways of conveying information with exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashwin Nayak , Amnon Ta-Shma , David Zuckerman

We consider the possibility of encoding m classical bits into much fewer n quantum bits so that an arbitrary bit from the original m bits can be recovered with a good probability, and we show that non-trivial quantum encodings exist that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Andris Ambainis , Ashwin Nayak , Amnon Ta-Shma , Umesh Vazirani

Semiautomata form a rich class of sequence-processing algorithms with applications in natural language processing, robotics, computational biology, and data mining. We establish the first Statistical Query hardness result for semiautomata…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 George Giapitzakis , Kimon Fountoulakis , Eshaan Nichani , Jason D. Lee

{\it Two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states} (2qcfa's) were introduced by Ambainis and Watrous. Though this computing model is more restricted than the usual {\it two-way quantum finite automata} (2qfa's) first proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-10 Daowen Qiu

We investigate the accepting state complexity of deterministic finite automata for regular languages obtained by applying one of the following operations to languages accepted by permutation automata: union, quotient, complement,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Christian Rauch , Markus Holzer

We introduce a quantum-like classical computational model, called affine computation, as a generalization of probabilistic computation. After giving the basics of affine computation, we define affine finite automata (AfA) and compare it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We discuss the performance of the Search and Fourier Transform algorithms on a hybrid computer constituted of classical and quantum processors working together. We show that this semi-quantum computer would be an improvement over a pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reinaldo O. Vianna , Wilson R. M. Rabelo , C. H. Monken

Classical programming languages cannot model essential elements of complex systems such as true random number generation. This paper develops a formal programming language called the lambda-q calculus that addresses the fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip Maymin

The two-way finite automaton with quantum and classical states (2QCFA), defined by Ambainis and Watrous, is a model of quantum computation whose quantum part is extremely limited; however, as they showed, 2QCFA are surprisingly powerful: a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zachary Remscrim

Quantum finite automata, as well as quantum pushdown automata (QPA) were first introduced by C. Moore and J. P. Crutchfield. In this paper we introduce the notion of QPA in a non-equivalent way, including unitarity criteria, by using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 Marats Golovkins

We study structural restrictions on biautomata such as, e.g., acyclicity, permutation-freeness, strongly permutation-freeness, and orderability, to mention a few. We compare the obtained language families with those induced by deterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Markus Holzer , Sebastian Jakobi

This paper identifies exact probabilistic simulation cost as the natural quantitative measure of quantum advantage for finite automata under strict cutpoints. It gives sharp simulation laws for two representative models. A one-way finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu

Quantum language models have shown competitive performance on sequential tasks, yet whether trained quantum circuits exploit genuinely quantum resources -- or merely embed classical computation in quantum hardware -- remains unknown. Prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Nathan Roll

Many inference scenarios rely on extracting relevant information from known data in order to make future predictions. When the underlying stochastic process satisfies certain assumptions, there is a direct mapping between its exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Leonardo Banchi

In this paper, we conduct a systematic literature review of (semi-) automated approaches to Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) and Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI). Prior work in the literature indicated that both Software Engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Nazanin Siavash , Armin Moin

One of the properties of Kondacs-Watrous model of quantum finite automata (QFA) is that the probability of the correct answer for a QFA cannot be amplified arbitrarily. In this paper, we determine the maximum probabilities achieved by QFAs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Arnolds Kikusts

Most continuous mathematical formulations arising in science and engineering can only be solved numerically and therefore approximately. We shall always assume that we're dealing with a numerical approximation to the solution. There are two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-10 A. Papageorgiou , J. F. Traub

We construct zero-error quantum finite automata (QFAs) for promise problems which cannot be solved by bounded-error probabilistic finite automata (PFAs). Here is a summary of our results: - There is a promise problem solvable by an exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Jibran Rashid , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

Equality and disjointness are two of the most studied problems in communication complexity. They have been studied for both classical and also quantum communication and for various models and modes of communication. Buhrman et al. [Buh98]…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Jozef Gruska , Daowen Qiu , Shenggen Zheng

In classical computation, a "write-only memory" (WOM) is little more than an oxymoron, and the addition of WOM to a (deterministic or probabilistic) classical computer brings no advantage. We prove that quantum computers that are augmented…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , Rusins Freivalds , A. C. Cem Say , Ruben Agadzanyan