QUANTUM COMPUTATION: TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ‘BETWEEN QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL’ COMPUTER
Diederik Aerts, Bart D’Hooghe · 2002
Using the ‘between quantum and classical ’ models that have been constructed explicitly within the hidden measurement approach of quantum mechanics we investigate the possibility to construct a ‘between quantum and classical ’ computer. In this view, the pure quantum computer and the classical Turing machine can be seen as two special cases of our general computer. We have shown in earlier research that the intermediate ‘between quantum and classical ’ systems cannot be described within standard quantum theory. We argue that the general categoral approach of state property systems might provide a unified framework for the study of these ‘between quantum and classical’ models, and hence also for the study of classical and quantum computers as special cases. 1