Trace monoids with idempotent generators and measure-only quantum automata

  • Authors:
  • Alberto Bertoni;Carlo Mereghetti;Beatrice Palano

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 20135;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 20135;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 20135

  • Venue:
  • Natural Computing: an international journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze a model of 1-way quantum automaton where only measurements are allowed ( MON -1qfa). The automaton works on a compatibility alphabet $$(\Sigma, E)$$ of observables and its probabilistic behavior is a formal series on the free partially commutative monoid $$\hbox{FI}(\Sigma, E)$$ with idempotent generators. We prove some properties of this class of formal series and we apply the results to analyze the class $${\bf LMO}(\Sigma, E)$$ of languages recognized by MON -1qfa's with isolated cut point. In particular, we prove that $${\bf LMO}(\Sigma, E)$$ is a boolean algebra of recognizable languages with finite variation, and that $${\bf LMO}(\Sigma, E)$$ is properly contained in the recognizable languages, with the exception of the trivial case of complete commutativity.