Revisiting the power and equivalence of one-way quantum finite automata

  • Authors:
  • Lvzhou Li;Daowen Qiu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China;Dept. of Com. Sci., Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, People's Republic of China and SQIG, Instituto de Telecom., IST, TU Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal and The State Key Lab. of Comp. Science, Inst. of Sof ...

  • Venue:
  • ICIC'10 Proceedings of the Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications, and 6th international conference on Intelligent computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We give a new proof for the fact that measure-many one-way quantum finite automata (MM-1QFA) recognize only regular languages with bounded error. Our proof, different from the one in the literature, gives another insight to the recognition power of MM-1QFA. Moreover, we generalize the proof to a broader class of automata that include probabilistic automata and some kinds of quantum finite automata. In addition, we briefly discuss the equivalence problem of some quantum computing models in a uniform framework.