Quantum Pushdown Automata

  • Authors:
  • Marats Golovkins

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SOFSEM '00 Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Quantum finite automata, as well as quantum pushdown automata were first introduced by C. Moore, J. P. Crutchfield [13]. In this paper we introduce the notion of quantum pushdown automata (QPA) in a non-equivalent way, including unitarity criteria, by using the definition of quantum finite automata of [11]. It is established that the unitarity criteria of QPA are not equivalent to the corresponding unitarity criteria of quantum Turing machines [4]. We show that QPA can recognize every regular language. Finally we present some simple languages recognized by QPA, two of them are not recognizable by deterministic pushdown automata and one seems to be not recognizable by probabilistic pushdown automata as well.