1. Model Checking Quantum Continuous-Time Markov Chains
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Ming Xu and Jingyi Mei and Ji Guan and Nengkun Yu, Xu, Ming, Mei, Jingyi, Guan, Ji, Yu, Nengkun, Ming Xu and Jingyi Mei and Ji Guan and Nengkun Yu, Xu, Ming, Mei, Jingyi, Guan, Ji, and Yu, Nengkun
- Abstract
Verifying quantum systems has attracted a lot of interests in the last decades. In this paper, we initialise the model checking of quantum continuous-time Markov chain (QCTMC). As a real-time system, we specify the temporal properties on QCTMC by signal temporal logic (STL). To effectively check the atomic propositions in STL, we develop a state-of-the-art real root isolation algorithm under Schanuel’s conjecture; further, we check the general STL formula by interval operations with a bottom-up fashion, whose query complexity turns out to be linear in the size of the input formula by calling the real root isolation algorithm. A running example of an open quantum walk is provided to demonstrate our method.
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- 2021
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