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Abstract
In the paper we suggest a system of fuzzy Tsetlin automata for analog computations. The system deals with fuzzy analogs of qubits and models operations of quantum gates used for quantum computations. These fuzzy information units are defined by matrix with fuzzy normalized rows. Operations with these units are conducted by fuzzy Tsetlin automata based on the uninorm and absorbing norm. It is demonstrated that the suggested system implements basic quantum computations that allows its application for general analog computing.
Keywords:
fuzzy automata
; Tsetlin automata
; quantum computation
; analog computing
MSC: 03D99; 68Q05; 81P68; 94D05
1. Introduction
It is widely accepted [1] that computation is a process of translating one sequence of symbols to another following a finite number of predefined rules. If the first sequence, called input sequence, and the second sequence, called output sequence, consist of the digits representing the numbers, then computation process is also known as calculation process.
Computation process implemented in physical devices is known as computing while the devices are called computation machines. Computation machines dealing with numbers are called arithmetic machines or calculators and are widely known as computers.
During the history of computation were developed innumerous types of computation machines which according to their basic functionality are combined into two wide classes: analog computers and digital computers.
In analog computers, input sequences represent the results of the measurements of certain observed external processes, and translation of these sequences into the outputs is conducted with respect to the internal processes which directly model the external processes [2]. In contrast, digital computers deal with input sequences without necessarily references to the observed reality and translate these sequences into the outputs following the rules which represent abstract mathematical operations [3]. Programming of analog computers is a tuning of the parameters of the modelling processes [4] and programming of digital computers is a defining the rules of translation of the inputs into the outputs [5].
Formally, analog computers operate with continuous functions such that each computer operation is defined by an operator in a certain space. Such principle of functionality of analog computers results in higher speed of calculations, but because of the noise, it leads to irreducible errors at each stage of computing from data transmission to data storing.
This weakness led to a decrease in interest in analog computing and gave rise to the development of digital computers operating with a finite number of variables with the values from discrete alphabets, usually from the binary alphabet .
A new wave of interest to analog computation was initialed by the ideas of quantum computing [6,7] which reintroduced the considerations of the logic of quantum mechanics [8] and its use in computations. Quantum mechanical computation assumes that the input sequences are transformed using quantum mechanical operators and the output sequences are obtained by observations of the results of such transformations [9]. An information unit used in quantum mechanical computation is a qubit which is a superposition of the values and . Implementation of such computations assumes the use of quantum mechanical devices which conduct these quantum mechanical transformations and return the results in the form of macroscopic observable values.
Direct analogy between representation of the data in quantum mechanical computation and in fuzzy sets gave a rise to the attempts to model quantum mechanical computation by the means of fuzzy logic [10].
Probably, one of the most successful models was suggested by Hannachi et al. [11,12] who defined fuzzy models of quantum gates and constructed fuzzy version of one- and two-bits Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm [13]. Later, these models were adopted for control of mobile robots [14,15] that validates possibility of their implementation in nonquantum physical devices. Along with that, the Hannachi et al. model does not include complex gates conducting rotations of the qubits which are necessary for a complete quantum computing system.
Moreover, as it was demonstrated by Kreinovich et al. [16], there is a crucial difference between quantum and fuzzy logics led by the “square root of not” appearing in quantum logic. Later, Kosheleva and Kreinovich [17] demonstrated that formulation of quantum logic by the means of fuzzy logic requires additional terms and operations. Kosheleva and Kreinovich interpreted the resulting logic as complex fuzzy logic [18,19] that, however, does not exclude the use of other rich enough fuzzy logics.
In the paper, we suggest a fuzzy system which implements quantum computations and can be used for analog computations in general. The system consists of fuzzy Tsetlin automata that utilize extended uninorm and absorbing norm. To model the qubits representing the data, in the system we suggest fuzzy analog of qubits – the f-bits – which are matrix extensions of the qubits with uninorm based normalization. We demonstrate that the suggested system implements basic quantum computations that allows its application for general analog computing.
2. Materials and Methods
The suggested system is based on fuzzy Tsetlin automata and deals with the operations which represent the operations used in quantum computations. In the section, we start with the basic notes on quantum gates and the methods of quantum computations and then recall definition of fuzzy Tsetlin automaton and its main properties.
2.1. Basic Operations of Quantum Computation
The information units and operations used in quantum computations are defined as follows. Since quantum computations are not a subject of this paper, we use commonly known vector and matrix notation; for widely accepted quantum mechanical notation used in quantum information theory see e.g. the book [20] by Nielsen and Chuang.
In quantum computations, a unit of information is called qubit and is represented by a two-elements complex vector such that . The distinguished vectors and are associated with classical false and true values, and any vector is represented by a combination
of the vectors and .
Usually, row-vector is denoted by and is called bra-vector and column vector is denoted by and is called ket-vector. Vectors and represent the states of electron “spin up” and “spin down”, respectively, and the vectors and represent the states “spin right” and “spin left”, respectively.
The basic operators applied to the qubits are represented by the following matrices called quantum gates:
- -
- Pauli operators:
- -
- Square root of not:
- -
- Hadamard operator:
- -
- Phase shift operator:
- -
- T-gate:
- -
- Two-qubit controlled NOT (CNOT) operator:
The square root of not is an operator which acts as ; consequently, the phase shift operator acts as and the T-gate operators acts as .
Note that in contrast to the Boolean operators, the one-qubit operators are reversible, that is , and so on.
Our goal is to suggest fuzzy operations which emulate these quantum gates.
2.2. Fuzzy Tsetlin Automata
The suggested system is based on fuzzy Tsetlin automata. These automata extend binary Tetlin automata [21] which are defined as follows.
Let be an automation with the set of states , and assume that being in the state the automaton receives an income such that is interpreted as a payoff and is interpreted as a reward (no payoff).
If , then the automaton changes its state to the other, and if , the automaton stays in its current state. Such transitions of the automaton are defined by the matrix such that and .
It is easy to demonstrate that such behavior of the Tsetlin automaton is represented by Boolean operator
that allows direct extension of binary automaton to fuzzy automaton which operates with the states and incomes from the interval .
To define fuzzy Tsetlin automaton we need the following fuzzy aggregators that extend Boolean operations.
Function with the parameter such that
- (commutativity),
- (associativity),
- implies (monotonicity),
-
for some (identity),and such that is a -norm and is a -conorm is called uninorm. Parameter is called identity or neutral element of the uninorm.
Let be a uninorm with the neutral element and let be a function that satisfies the following requirements:
- is continuous,
- is strictly monotonously decreasing.
If for any holds
then function is called strong negation or negation, for briefness, with respect to the uninorm .
Function with the parameter such that
- (commutativity),
- (associativity),
-
for any (existence of zero)is called absorbing norm. Parameter is called absorbing element of the absorbing norm.
Similar to the negation operator, given absorbing norm it is defined the division operator such that
The value
is called unit with respect to the absorbing norm .
Uninorm was defined by Yager and Rybalov in the paper [22], negation – by Dombi in the paper [23], absorbing norm – by Rudas in the paper [24] and division – by Fodor et al. in the report [25]. For further definitions and facts see the book [26] and references therein.
Let be a uninorm with neutral element . Then there exists an invertible continuous strictly monotonously increasing function with the limits and , such that and for any holds
The function is called generating function of the uninorm .
Let be a negation with respect to the uninorm based on the generating function . Then
Finally, let be an absorbing norm with absorbing element . Then there exists an invertible continuous strictly monotonously increasing function with the limits and , such that and for any holds
The function is called generating function of the absorbing norm .
Since absorbing norm is a fuzzy extension of the Boolean operator, fuzzy Tsetlin automaton can be defined as a direct negation of the absorbing norm.
Fuzzy Tsetlin automaton is a fuzzy automaton with the state transition function
where is a state and is an input of the automaton at time .
3. Results
Let us start with the definition of fuzzy information unit. We assume that such a unit is analog to the quantum information unit – the qubit – but, in contrast to the probabilities of quantum states, it represents the truth values of the statements.
Let be a real matrix. If in the matrix holds
then it is considered as a fuzzy information unit and is called f-bit.
Note that in contrast to the qubit which is a complex vector with the elements associated with the probabilities of the quantum states, the f-bit is a real matrix. The elements of this matrix are interpreted as truth values and are normalized such that
In other words, similar to the qubit where the values and are associated with the probabilities of the complementary events, in the f-bit the values in the rows are associated with the truth values of the complementary statements.
The suggested system consists of four fuzzy Tsetlin automata acting with the elements of fuzzy information units.
Let be a matrix of control values. We assume that matrix has a structure of f-bit, namely
Let be an input f-bit and let be a control f-bit. Then, controlled information processing is defined as follows:
In other words, the automata processing the elements of main diagonals are fuzzy Tsetlin automata and the automata processing the element of antidiagonals are negated fuzzy Tsetlin automata.
In brief, this operation is written as
Lemma 1.
If
, then
is an f-bit.
Proof. We need to show that
and that
The first statement follows directly from definitions of the operations and for any and .
Consider the second statement. Since , we have
and
Note that if , then the above transformations do not hold, and the statement of the theorem is not true. □
Let . We define the following control matrices.
- -
- Fuzzy Pauli control matrices:
- -
- Fuzzy root of not:
- -
- Fuzzy Hadamard control matrix:
- -
- Fuzzy phase shift:
- -
- Fuzzy T-gate:
- -
- Fuzzy two-f-bit controlled NOT (CNOT):
Since , each presented matrix is an f-bit.
Theorem 1.
Operation
with the defined above control matrices implements the basic gates of quantum computation.
Proof. Denote the input qubit by
and the input f-bit by
We have (for detailed calculations see Appendix A):
- -
- Pauli operators:
- -
- Fuzzy Pauli operators:
- -
- Square root of not:
- -
- Fuzzy root of not:
- -
- Hadamard operator:
- -
- Fuzzy Hadamard operator:
- -
- Phase shift operator:
- -
- Fuzzy phase shift operator:
- -
- T-gate:
- -
- Fuzzy T-gate:
Finally, let
be additional qubit and
be additional f-bit.
The gate and two-f-bit extension of the operation with fuzzy control matrix act as follows:
- -
- Two-qubit controlled NOT (CNOT) operator:
- -
- Fuzzy two-f-bit controlled NOT (CNOT) operator:
Representation of the gate by its fuzzy analog ends the proof. □
First, let us demonstrate that the operation with the introduced fuzzy Pauli control matrices meets the main property of quantum gates.
Lemma 2.
Operation
with fuzzy Pauli control matrices
,
,
and
is reversible such that
Proof. Let
be an f-bit and a control matrix, respectively.
Then
For the fuzzy Pauli control matrices , , and , we have either or , . Then
Hence,
and operation is reversible. □
Corollary 1.
is reversible.
Proof. Reversibility of follows directly from the reversibility of and . □
Now, let us demonstrate the relations between the introduced control matrices.
Lemma 3.
Proof. The statement is obtained by direct calculations (see Appendix B). □
Note that operation with fuzzy Hadamard control matrix and the control matrices , and is not reversible. Along with that, for these matrices we can define the operations which, together with corresponding operators, provide the reversibility of the operation .
Let . Denote by
the times application of the uninorm and absorbing norm . It means,
For any we have,
and since and , we have for even
and for odd
We introduce the following matrices
Since we assume that , below we will omit the notation of and and will write , , and .
To define the required operators, we will need the matrices
and
Lemma 4.
For fuzzy Hadamard operator holds
Proof. The statement is obtained by direct calculations (see Appendix C). □
Similar statement holds for fuzzy square root of not , fuzzy phase shift and fuzzy T-gate .
Lemma 5.
Proof. The statement is obtained by direct calculations (see Appendix D). □
Finally, let us present an example of the generating function with and corresponding values , and .
Example 1.
where , .
Let and and assume that [26]
For we have . So
Then
In fact,
Then
which gives and similarly
gives . □
Summarizing, operation with the defined fuzzy control matrices implements the corresponding quantum gates. Operation is reversible for the fuzzy Pauli operators , , and and for fuzzy controlled not operator , and for fuzzy Hadamard operator operation it is reversed using the matrix . For square root of not and fuzzy phase shift operation is reversed using the matrix and for the fuzzy T-gate it is reversed using the matrix . Finally, example 1 demonstrates that the introduced operations and values are computable.
These properties of operation with the defined fuzzy control matrices allows its direct application in quantum algorithms. Below, we illustrate the use of this operation by formulating fuzzy version of the one qubit Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm [13].
Example 2.
In this example, we formulate the fuzzy version of the one qubit Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm [13], which recognizes whether a Boolean function is constant (its outputs do not depend on inputs) or balanced (a half of its outputs are zeros and a half are units). The example is inspired by the implementation of the model suggested by Hannachi, Hatakeyama and Hirota [12].
Recall that since we consider Boolean function of one argument, it can be one of four functions , , such that the functions and are constant and the functions and are balanced.
To solve this problem, classical algorithm requires two calls of the function . At first, the algorithm sets . Assume that the result is . It means that the function is either (constant) or (balanced). Now the algorithm sets . Then the result is either , which means that the function is (constant), or , which means that the function is (balanced). Certainly, the algorithm can start with the value and then set the value ; in this case it will choose among the functions and .
In contrast, the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm solves this problem in one call of the operator associated with the function . Detailed description of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm is given in Appendix E.
Following the scheme of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, the suggested algorithm obtains two f-bits and as an input, applies to them fuzzy Hadamard operator , then applies a two-f-bit oracle operator . The obtained f-bits are processes by the operator , which is an inverse of the operator , and the resulting f-bits and are compared. If , then the function is constant and if , then the function is balanced.
Similar to the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, we assume that the functions , , and are respectively associated with the two-f-bit operators with the control matrices:
respectively.
Let
The two-f-bit state is defined as a fuzzy superposition of the f-bits and :
To the state the two-f-qubit Hadamard operator is applied:
The two-f-qubit state is processed by the operator
where and stand for the matrices and with respect to the control matrices , , and .
The state is processed by the reverse fuzzy Hadamard operator
Finally, if , then the function is constant and if , then the function is balanced.
Hence, similarly to the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, the problem of recognition of the constant and balanced function is solved by a single call of the operator associated with the function .
It is clear that similar to the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, the suggested fuzzy algorithm is useless and does not solve any practical problem. Along with that, as the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm demonstrates that effectiveness of quantum computations, the suggested fuzzy algorithm demonstrates that using the suggested operations the problem can be solved as effectively as by quantum algorithm. □
4. Discussion
In the paper we suggested a fuzzy system for implementing analog or hybrid computations. The units of information in the system are defined as -f-bits which are the matrices of definite form. Operations in the system are defined using fuzzy Tsetlin automata and are implemented by the operator with definite control matrices.
The considered control matrices are such that the resulting operator implements operations used in quantum computations. As a result, the system implements quantum computations by means of fuzzy logic that is illustrated by fuzzy implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm.
The suggested operator with the presented control matrices is certainly not a unique possible implementation of the system. It was chosen to coincide with the gates used in quantum computations and to demonstrate an effectiveness of the suggested system and the use of fuzzy Tsetlin automata for analog computations.
Further research will concentrate on simulations of the suggested scheme and its implementation using standard microelectronic devices.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, E.K. and A.R.; methodology, A.R.; software, E.K.; validation, E.K. and A.R.; formal analysis, E.K.; investigation, E.K.; writing—original draft preparation, E.K.; writing—review and editing, A.R. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
No new data were created or analyzed in this study. Data sharing is not applicable to this article.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Prof. E. Bormashenko from Ariel University for fruitful discussions which inspired the work on this paper.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Appendix A
Calculations for the proof of Theorem 1.
- -
- Pauli operators:
- -
- Fuzzy Pauli operators:
- -
- Square root of not:
- -
- Fuzzy root of not ():
- -
- Hadamard operator:
- -
- Fuzzy Hadamard operator:
- -
- Phase shift operator:
- -
- Fuzzy phase shift operator ():
- -
- T-gate:
- -
- Fuzzy T-gate ():
- -
- Two-qubit controlled NOT (CNOT) operator:
- -
- Fuzzy two-f-bit controlled NOT (CNOT) operator:
Appendix B
Calculations for the proof of Lemma 3.
Appendix C
Calculations for the proof of Lemma 4. Let
be an f-bit. Then
and
Appendix D
Calculations for the proof of Lemma 4. Let
be an f-bit. Then
and
Appendix E
Before formulation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm [13], recall that the function is called constant if for any argument it returns a certain predefined value, and the function is called balanced if a half of its outputs are zeros and a half are units.
Consider four Boolean functions , , of one argument. Then, the functions and are constant and the functions and are balanced.
Assume that there is an unknown function and it is required to recognize whether the function is constant or balanced.
The Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm acts as follows. As an input, the algorithm obtains two qubits: qubit associated with the Boolean value and qubit associated with the Boolean value . These vectors are superposed into the two-qubit state
where stands for the Kronecker product.
To the state the two-qubit operator is applied
Now the state is processed by the oracle operator which is a two-qubit operator representing the function . Then
Operator represents the functions , , and . These functions are associated with the two-qubit operators:
respectively.
To the state is processed by the qubit operator which gives
Finally, in the resulting two-qubit state , if the first qubit , then is constant and if the first qubit , then is balanced.
Let us consider the operator defined by the operators , , and :
:
:
:
:
It is seen that for the first qubit of is and for it is ; hence if or it is constant. In contrast, for the first qubit of is and for it is ; hence if or it is balanced.
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