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Probabilities and Epistemic Operations in the Logics of Quantum Computation

María Luisa Dalla Chiara, Héctor Freytes, Roberto Giuntini, Roberto Leporini, Giuseppe Sergioli

Published Oct 31, 2018• 7 citations
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Abstract

Quantum computation theory has inspired new forms of quantum logic, called quantum computational logics, where formulas are supposed to denote pieces of quantum information, while logical connectives are interpreted as special examples of quantum logical gates. The most natural semantics for these logics is a form of holistic semantics, where meanings behave in a contextual way. In this framework, the concept of quantum probability can assume different forms. We distinguish an absolute concept of probability, based on the idea of quantum truth, from a relative concept of probability (a form of transition-probability, connected with the notion of fidelity between quantum states). Quantum information has brought about some intriguing epistemic situations. A typical example is represented by teleportation-experiments. In some previous works we have studied a quantum version of the epistemic operations “to know”, “to believe”, “to understand”. In this article, we investigate another epistemic operation (which is informally used in a number of interesting quantum situations): the operation “being probabilistically informed”.

DOI
10.3390/e20110837

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Abstract Quantum information gives rise to some puzzling epistemic problems that can be interestingly investigated from a logical point of view. A characteristic example is represented by teleportation phenomena, where knowledge and actions of observers (epistemic agents) play a relevant role. By abstracting from teleportation, we propose a simplified semantics for a language that consists of two parts: 1)the quantum computational sub-language, whose sentences α represent pieces of quantum information (which are supposed to be stored by some quantum systems)2)the classical epistemic sub-language, whose atomic sentences have the following forms: agent a has a probabilistic information about the sentence α; agent a knows the sentence α. Interestingly enough, some conceptual difficulties of standard epistemic logics can be avoided in this framework.
Quantum computation and quantum computational logics give rise to some non-standard probability spaces that are interesting from a formal point of view. In this framework, events represent quantum pieces of information (qubits, quregisters, mixtures of quregisters), while operations on events are identified with quantum logic gates (which correspond to dynamic reversible quantum processes). We investigate the notion of Shi–Aharonov quantum computational algebra. This structure plays the role for quantum computation that is played by σ-complete Boolean algebras in classical probability theory.