The Complexity of Probabilistic versus Quantum Finite Automata

  • Authors:
  • Gatis Midrijanis

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SOFSEM '02 Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics: Theory and Practice of Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a language Ln which is recognizable by a probabilistic finite automaton (PFA) with probability 1 - 驴 for all 驴 0 with O(log2 n) states, with a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) with O(n) states, but a quantum finite automaton (QFA) needs at least 2驴(n/log n) states.