Commutativity of quantum weakest preconditions

نویسندگان

  • Mingsheng Ying
  • Jianxin Chen
  • Yuan Feng
  • Runyao Duan
چکیده

The notion of quantum weakest precondition was introduced by D’Hondt and P. Panangaden (Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 16(2006)429-451), and they presented a representation of weakest precondition of a quantum program in the operatorsum form. In this letter, we give an intrinsic characterization of the weakest precondition of a quantum program given in a systemenvironment model. Furthermore, some sufficient conditions for commutativity of quantum weakest preconditions are presented.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Inf. Process. Lett.

دوره 104  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007