Quantum State Machines: A Novel Computational Paradigm for Adaptive Learning

This paper introduces Quantum State Machines (QSMs), a new model of computation that di- verges from both classical and quantum computing paradigms. A QSM operates not on definite states, but on probability distributions over a state space. Computation is driven by events that evolve these distributions, and the act of observation collapses the probability space into a definite state, providing a natural bridge between possibility and reality.