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A Foundation of Programming a Multi-tape Quantum Turing Machine

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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1999 (MFCS 1999)

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The notion of quantum Turing machines is a basis of quantum complexity theory. We discuss a general model of multi-tape, multi-head Quantum Turing machines with multi final states that also allow tape heads to stay still.

This work is partly supported by NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and DIMACS Fellowship.

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Yamakami, T. (1999). A Foundation of Programming a Multi-tape Quantum Turing Machine. In: Kutyłowski, M., Pacholski, L., Wierzbicki, T. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1999. MFCS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1672. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48340-3_39

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