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On Halting Process of Quantum Turing Machine

Takayuki Miyadera, Masanori Ohya

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We prove that there is no algorithm to tell whether an arbitrarily constructed Quantum Turing Machine has same time steps for different branches of computation. We, hence, cannot avoid the notion of halting to be probabilistic in Quantum Turing Machine.

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We prove that there is no algorithm to tell whether an arbitrarily constructed Quantum Turing Machine has same time steps for different branches of computation. We, hence, cannot avoid the notion of halting to be probabilistic in Quantum Turing Machine.

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We prove that there is no algorithm to tell whether an arbitrarily constructed Quantum Turing Machine has same time steps for different branches of computation. We, hence, cannot avoid the notion of halting to be probabilistic in Quantum Turing Machine.

Key concepts: Turing machine, Description number, Turing machine examples, Probabilistic Turing machine, Quantum Turing machine, Universal Turing machine, Super-recursive algorithm, Non-deterministic Turing machine

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