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We study 1-way quantum finite automata (QFAs) and compare them with their classical counterparts. We show that 1-way QFAs can be very space efficient. We construct a 1-way QFAs that are quadratically smaller than any equivalent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnolds Kikusts

Quantum computing is concerned with computer technology based on the principles of quantum mechanics, with operations performed at the quantum level. Quantum computational models make it possible to analyze the resources required for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Ajay Kumar

In this paper, we focus on determining the equivalence for {\it 1-way quantum finite automata with control language} (CL-1QFAs) defined by Bertoni et al and {\it measure-many 1-way quantum finite automata} (MM-1QFAs) introduced by Kondacs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lvzhou Li , Daowen Qiu

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

Quotient is a basic operation of formal languages, which plays a key role in the construction of minimal deterministic finite automata (DFA) and the universal automata. In this paper, we extend this operation to formal power series and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Yongming Li , Qian Wang , Sanjiang Li

Quantum finite automata (QFAs) have been extensively studied in the literature. In this paper, we define and systematically study quantum B\"uchi automata (QBAs) over infinite words to model the long-term behavior of quantum systems, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Qisheng Wang , Mingsheng Ying

Finite-state automata are a very effective tool in natural language processing. However, in a variety of applications and especially in speech precessing, it is necessary to consider more general machines in which arcs are assigned weights…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mehryar Mohri , Fernando Pereira , Michael Riley

Compact representations of automata are important for efficiency. In this paper, we study methods to compute reduced automata, in which no two states accept the same language. We do this for finitary automata (FA), an abstract definition…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Keri D'Angelo , Alexandra Silva , Gerco van Heerdt , Leon Witzman

Weighted automata over the nonnegative reals form a fundamental model for quantitative languages. We show that, up to scaling, this model collapses to probabilistic automata. Concretely, we prove that every weighted automaton whose…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Smayan Agarwal , Aalok Thakkar

In the literature, there exist several interesting hybrid models of finite automata which have both quantum and classical states. We call them semi-quantum automata. In this paper, we compare the descriptional power of these models with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Lvzhou Li , Daowen Qiu

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

We study the recognition of R-trivial idempotent (R1) languages by various models of "decide-and-halt" quantum finite automata (QFA) and probabilistic reversible automata (DH-PRA). We introduce bistochastic QFA (MM-BQFA), a model which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-07 Marats Golovkins , Maksim Kravtsev , Vasilijs Kravcevs

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

Multi-letter {\it quantum finite automata} (QFAs) were a new one-way QFA model proposed recently by Belovs, Rosmanis, and Smotrovs (LNCS, Vol. 4588, Springer, Berlin, 2007, pp. 60-71), and they showed that multi-letter QFAs can accept with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-03-10 Daowen Qiu , Sheng Yu

Quantum finite automata were introduced by C.Moore, J.P. Crutchfield, and by A.Kondacs and J.Watrous. This notion is not a generalization of the deterministic finite automata. Moreover, it was proved that not all regular languages can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 Andris Ambainis , Richard Bonner , Rusins Freivalds , Marats Golovkins , Marek Karpinski

The question of whether quantum real-time one-counter automata (rtQ1CAs) can outperform their probabilistic counterparts has been open for more than a decade. We provide an affirmative answer to this question, by demonstrating a…

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

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

We define a quantum computational model over infinite words, called Measure-Many Quantum B\"uchi Automata (MMQBA), which extends Measure-many Quantum Finite automata (MMQFA) to the infinite word setting with B\"uchi acceptance condition. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abhisek Midya , A Baskar

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

We prove that endowing a real-time probabilistic or quantum computer with the ability of postselection increases its computational power. For this purpose, we provide a new model of finite automata with postselection, and compare it with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-04 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say