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The nondeterministic quantum finite automaton (NQFA) is the only known case where a one-way quantum finite automaton (QFA) model has been shown to be strictly superior in terms of language recognition power to its probabilistic counterpart.…

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

In this thesis, we introduce a new quantum Turing machine (QTM) model that supports general quantum operators, together with its pushdown, counter, and finite automaton variants, and examine the computational power of classical and quantum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-03 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

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 study 1-way quantum finite automata (QFAs). First, we compare them with their classical counterparts. We show that, if an automaton is required to give the correct answer with a large probability (over 0.98), then the power of 1-way QFAs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ambainis , R. Freivalds

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

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

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

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

Affine automata provide a finite-state computational model that preserves the linear-algebraic structure of quantum computation while operating entirely over the reals. Recent work has shown that affine automata can far surpass classical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu

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

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

Recently, the use of mathematical methods and computer science applications have got significant response among biochemists and biologists to modeling the biological systems. The computational and mathematical methods have enormous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Shenggen Zheng

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

Quantum finite automata (QFA) are basic computational devices that make binary decisions using quantum operations. They are known to be exponentially memory efficient compared to their classical counterparts. Here, we demonstrate an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Stephen Z. D. Plachta , Markus Hiekkamäki , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz , Robert Fickler

1-way quantum finite state automata are reversible in nature, which greatly reduces its accepting property. In fact, the set of languages accepted by 1-way quantum finite automata is a proper subset of regular languages. We introduce 2-tape…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Debayan Ganguly , Kumar Sankar Ray

The study of quantum finite automata (QFAs) is one of the possible approaches in exploring quantum computers with finite memory. Despite being one of the most restricted models, Moore-Crutchfield quantum finite automaton (MCQFA) is proven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Özlem Salehi , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Time-space tradeoff has been studied in a variety of models, such as Turing machines, branching programs, and finite automata, etc. While communication complexity as a technique has been applied to study finite automata, it seems it has not…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Shenggen Zheng , Yaqiao Li , Minghua Pan , Jozef Gruska , Lvzhou Li

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

Quantum finite automata have been studied intensively since their introduction in late 1990s as a natural model of a quantum computer with finite-dimensional quantum memory space. This paper seeks their direct application to interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Harumichi Nishimura , Tomoyuki Yamakami

In this paper we study a generalized model named one-way general quantum finite automata} (1gQFA), in which each symbol in the input alphabet induces a trace-preserving quantum operation, instead of a unitary transformation. Two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 Lvzhou Li , Daowen Qiu , Xiangfu Zou , Lvjun Li , Lihua Wu , Paulo Mateus