Overview
- Presents new approach to quantum logic inspired by quantum computation
- Offers a logical discussion of the question “can quantum computers be modelled by classical Turing machines?”
- Shows how the logics suggested by quantum computation can be naturally applied to the semantics of natural and artistic languages
- Illustrates problems in intuitive and formally rigorous language
Part of the book series: Trends in Logic (TREN, volume 48)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Quantum Logics
- Non-Classical Logics
- Quantum Computation
- Quantum Gates
- Quantum Teleportation
- Quantum Computer
- Entanglement
- Epistemic Operators
- Quantum Information and Quantum Logical Gates
- Mathematical Environment of Quantum Information
- Quantum Entanglement
- Quantum Logical Circuits to Quantum Computational Logics
- Individuals, Quantifiers and Epistemic Operators
- Classical and Quantum Turing Machines
- Ambiguity in Natural and Artistic Languages
About this book
This book provides a general survey of the main concepts, questions and results that have been developed in the recent interactions between quantum information, quantum computation and logic. Divided into 10 chapters, the books starts with an introduction of the main concepts of the quantum-theoretic formalism used in quantum information. It then gives a synthetic presentation of the main “mathematical characters” of the quantum computational game: qubits, quregisters, mixtures of quregisters, quantum logical gates. Next, the book investigates the puzzling entanglement-phenomena and logically analyses the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox and introduces the reader to quantum computational logics, and new forms of quantum logic. The middle chapters investigate the possibility of a quantum computational semantics for a language that can express sentences like “Alice knows that everybody knows that she is pretty”, explore the mathematical concept of quantum Turing machine, and illustrate some characteristic examples that arise in the framework of musical languages. The book concludes with an analysis of recent discussions, and contains a Mathematical Appendix which is a survey of the definitions of all main mathematical concepts used in the book.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Roberto Giuntini, professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cagliari, is president of the "Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science" and past president of the "International Quantum Structures Association". His research centers around the logico-algebraic structures of quantum theory and quantum computation. In 1998 he was awarded the Birkhoff-von Neumann Prize.
Roberto Leporini received an MSc degree cum laude in Computer Science in 1999 and a PhD in Computer Science in 2004, both from the University of Milan. Since 2005 he is an assistant professor at the University of Bergamo. His main research interests are: quantum computing, quantum optics, quantum computational structures and logic. He has published over 40 papers in international journals and holds a patent on the construction of quantum circuits. He is the president of the "International Quantum Structures Association".
Giuseppe Sergioli received an MSc degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Catania and a PhD in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cagliari, where he is now an assistant professor. His main research interests are: quantum computing, quantum computational structures and quantum computational logics. He is the author of several papers published in prominent journals in the areas of physics, logic, foundations of physics and computer science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Computation and Logic
Book Subtitle: How Quantum Computers Have Inspired Logical Investigations
Authors: Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini, Roberto Leporini, Giuseppe Sergioli
Series Title: Trends in Logic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04471-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04470-1Published: 18 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04471-8Published: 10 December 2018
Series ISSN: 1572-6126
Series E-ISSN: 2212-7313
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 178
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Logic, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Quantum Computing