English
Related papers

Related papers: Implications of quantum automata for contextuality

200 papers

In the literature, there exist several quantum finite automata (QFA) models with both quantum and classical states. These models are of particular interest,as they show praiseworthy advantages over the fully quantum models in some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Lvzhou Li , Yuan Feng

We introduce 2-way finite automata with quantum and classical states (2qcfa's). This is a variant on the 2-way quantum finite automata (2qfa) model which may be simpler to implement than unrestricted 2qfa's; the internal state of a 2qcfa…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , John Watrous

We present five examples where quantum finite automata (QFAs) outperform their classical counterparts. This may be useful as a relatively simple technique to introduce quantum computation concepts to computer scientists. We also describe a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-17 A. C. Cem Say , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

Quantum finite automata derive their strength by exploiting interference in complex valued probability amplitudes. Of particular interest is the 2-way model of Ambainis and Watrous that has both quantum and classical states (2QCFA) [A.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Panduranga Rao , V. Vinay

This paper proposed a quantum analogue of classical queue automata by using the definition of the quantum Turing machine and quantum finite-state automata. However, quantum automata equipped with storage medium of a stack has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Ajay Kumar

A quantum finite-state automaton (QFA) is a theoretical model designed to simulate the evolution of a quantum system with finite memory in response to sequential input strings. We define the language of a QFA as the set of strings that lead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 SeungYeop Baik , Sicheol Sung , Yo-Sub Han

After the first treatments of quantum finite state automata by Moore and Crutchfield and by Kondacs and Watrous, a number of papers study the power of quantum finite state automata and their variants. This paper introduces a model of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tomohiro Yamasaki , Hirotada Kobayashi , Hiroshi Imai

We study the emptiness and $\lambda$-reachability problems for unary and binary Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) and characterise the complexity of these problems in terms of the degree of ambiguity of the automaton and the size of its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Paul C. Bell , Pavel Semukhin

Generalized finite automata (GFAs), probabilistic finite automata (PFAs), and one-way general quantum finite automata (1gQFA) recognize the same strict-cutpoint languages, but the state complexity of exact probabilistic simulation has…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu

Some of the most interesting and important results concerning quantum finite automata are those showing that they can recognize certain languages with (much) less resources than corresponding classical finite automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Shenggen Zheng , Jozef Gruska , Daowen Qiu

We introduce an affine generalization of counter automata, and analyze their ability as well as affine finite automata. Our contributions are as follows. We show that there is a language that can be recognized by exact realtime affine…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Masaki Nakanishi , Kamil Khadiev , Krišjānis Prūsis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Quantum computing is a new model of computation, based on quantum physics. Quantum computers can be exponentially faster than conventional computers for problems such as factoring. Besides full-scale quantum computers, more restricted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Andris Ambainis , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Probabilistic automata are an extension of nondeterministic finite automata in which transitions are annotated with probabilities. Despite its simplicity, this model is very expressive and many of the associated algorithmic questions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Cristian Riveros , James Worrell

Quantum finite automata (QFAs) literature offers an alternative mathematical model for studying quantum systems with finite memory. As a superiority of quantum computing, QFAs have been shown exponentially more succinct on certain problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Utku Birkan , Özlem Salehi , Viktor Olejar , Cem Nurlu , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

To study relationship between quantum finite automata and probabilistic finite automata, we introduce a notion of probabilistic reversible automata (PRA, or doubly stochastic automata). We find that there is a strong relationship between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Marats Golovkins , Maksim Kravtsev

We present a formal and constructive theory showing that probabilistic finite automata (PFAs) can be exactly simulated using symbolic feedforward neural networks. Our architecture represents state distributions as vectors and transitions as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar

In this note, we generalize the results of arXiv:0901.2703v1 We show that all one-way quantum finite automaton (QFA) models that are at least as general as Kondacs-Watrous QFA's are equivalent in power to classical probabilistic finite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-20 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say

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

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 this paper the notion of quantum finite one-counter automata (QF1CA) is introduced. Introduction of the notion is similar to that of the 2-way quantum finite state automata by A.Kondacs and J.Watrous. The well-formedness conditions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maksim Kravtsev