Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
1998-02-26
Phys.Rev.A58:893,1998
Physics
Quantum Physics
30 Latex pages, 3 Postscript figures, Minor mathematical corrections, accepted for publication, Phys Rev A
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.58.893
Quantum robots and their interactions with environments of quantum systems are described and their study justified. A quantum robot is a mobile quantum system that includes a quantum computer and needed ancillary systems on board. Quantum robots carry out tasks whose goals include specified changes in the state of the environment or carrying out measurements on the environment. Each task is a sequence of alternating computation and action phases. Computation phase activities include determination of the action to be carried out in the next phase and possible recording of information on neighborhood environmental system states. Action phase activities include motion of the quantum robot and changes of neighborhood environment system states. Models of quantum robots and their interactions with environments are described using discrete space and time. To each task is associated a unitary step operator T that gives the single time step dynamics. T = T_{a}+T_{c} is a sum of action phase and computation phase step operators. Conditions that T_{a} and T_{c} should satisfy are given along with a description of the evolution as a sum over paths of completed phase input and output states. A simple example of a task carrying out a measurement on a very simple environment is analyzed. A decision tree for the task is presented and discussed in terms of sums over phase paths. One sees that no definite times or durations are associated with the phase steps in the tree and that the tree describes the successive phase steps in each path in the sum.
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