English
Related papers

Related papers: Quantum Pushdown Automata

200 papers

{\it Learning finite automata} (termed as {\it model learning}) has become an important field in machine learning and has been useful realistic applications. Quantum finite automata (QFA) are simple models of quantum computers with finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Daowen Qiu

The theory of computation is based on abstract computing automata which can be classified into a three-class hierarchy: Finite Automata (FA), Push-down Automata (PDA) and the Turing Machines (TM). Each class corresponds to grammar/language…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Marta Duenas-Diez , Juan Perez-Mercader

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 2020-04-29 Zachary Remscrim

We find an application in quantum finite automata for the ideas and results of [JL21] and [JL22]. We reformulate quantum finite automata with multiple-time measurements using the algebraic notion of near-ring. This gives a unified…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-21 George Jeffreys , Siu-Cheong Lau

{\it Two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states} (2QCFA) were introduced by Ambainis and Watrous, and {\it two-way two-tape deterministic finite automata} (2TFA) were introduced by Rabin and Scott. In this paper we study 2TFA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 Shenggen Zheng , Lvzhou Li , Daowen Qiu

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

In automata theory, the quantum computation has been widely examined for finite state machines, known as quantum finite automata (QFAs), and less attention has been given to the QFAs augmented with counters or stacks. Moreover, to our…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

We construct a hierarchy of regular languages such that the current language in the hierarchy can be accepted by 1-way quantum finite automata with a probability smaller than the corresponding probability for the preceding language in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Richard Bonner , Rusins Freivalds , Arnolds Kikusts

One-way quantum finite automata together with classical states (1QFAC) proposed in [Journal of Computer and System Sciences 81(2) (2015) 359--375] is a new one-way quantum finite automata (1QFA) model that integrates quantum finite automata…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Ligang Xiao , Daowen Qiu

We study the following decision problem: is the language recognized by a quantum finite automaton empty or non-empty? We prove that this problem is decidable or undecidable depending on whether recognition is defined by strict or non-strict…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vincent D. Blondel , Emmanuel Jeandel , Pascal Koiran , Natacha Portier

In this work we study a non-linear generalization based on affine transformations of probabilistic and quantum automata proposed recently by D\'iaz-Caro and Yakary{\i}lmaz \cite{DCY16A} referred as affine automata. First, we present…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Marcos Villagra , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We prove that two-way probabilistic and quantum finite automata (2PFA's and 2QFA's) can be considerably more concise than both their one-way versions (1PFA's and 1QFA's), and two-way nondeterministic finite automata (2NFA's). For this…

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

We show that there are quantum devices that accept all regular languages and that are exponentially more concise than deterministic finite automata (DFA). For this purpose, we introduce a new computing model of {\it one-way quantum finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Daowen Qiu , Lvzhou Li , Paulo Mateus , Amilcar Sernadas

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

Since Edward Moore, finite automata theory has been inspired by physics, in particular by quantum complementarity. We review automaton complementarity, reversible automata and the connections to generalized urn models. Recent developments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl Svozil

Quantitative automata (QAs) extend finite-state automata on infinite words with weighted transitions to specify quantitative system properties. However, their finite weight sets rule out properties like average response time, where response…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thomas A. Henzinger , Nicolas Mazzocchi , N. Ege Saraç , Harun Yılmaz

{\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

This paper is a continuation of a previous study on the so-called measure once finite quantum automata model introduced by Moore and Crutchfield in 2000. We investigate conditions assuring that, given a language recognized by such a device…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Andrea Benso , Flavio D'Alessandro , Paolo Papi

The potential of the exact quantum information processing is an interesting, important and intriguing issue. For examples, it has been believed that quantum tools can provide significant, that is larger than polynomial, advantages in the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Jozef Gruska , Daowen Qiu , Shenggen Zheng

Quantitative languages are an extension of boolean languages that assign to each word a real number. Mean-payoff automata are finite automata with numerical weights on transitions that assign to each infinite path the long-run average of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Thomas A. Henzinger , Philippe Rannou