The expressive power of quantum walks in terms of language acceptance

Barr, Katie and Kendon, Viv (2014) The expressive power of quantum walks in terms of language acceptance. In: 9th Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic, QPL 2012, 2012-10-10 - 2012-10-12. (https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.158.4)

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Abstract

Discrete time quantum walks are known to be universal for quantum computation. This has been proven by showing that they can simulate a universal quantum gate set. In this paper, we examine computation by quantum walks in terms of language acceptance, and present two ways in which discrete time quantum walks can accept some languages with certainty. These walks can take quantum as well as classical inputs, and we show that when the input is quantum, the walks can also be interpreted as performing the task of quantum state discrimination.

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Barr, Katie and Kendon, Viv ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6551-3056;