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A new paradigm for the unification of physics is described. It is called Cellular Automata (CA) theory, which is the most massively parallel computer model currently known to science. We maintain that at the tiniest distance and time scales…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Ostoma , Mike Trushyk

Cellular Automata(CA) is a discrete computing model which provides simple, flexible and efficient platform for simulating complicated systems and performing complex computation based on the neighborhoods information. CA consists of two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Debasis Das , Rajiv Misra

Quantum cellular automata consist in arrays of identical finite-dimensional quantum systems, evolving in discrete-time steps by iterating a unitary operator G. Moreover the global evolution G is required to be causal (it propagates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Pablo Arrighi

This article surveys some theoretical aspects of Cellular Automata (CAs) research. In particular, we discuss on maximal length CA. An n-cell CA is a maximal length CA, if all the configurations except one form a single cycle. There is a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sumit Adak , Sukanta Das

We extend a previously introduced semi-analytical representation of a decomposition of CA dynamics in arbitrary dimensions and neighborhood schemes via the use of certain universal maps in which CA rule vectors are derivable from the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2017-08-29 Theophanes E. Raptis

Layered Cellular Automata (LCA) extends the concept of traditional cellular automata (CA) to model complex systems and phenomena. In LCA, each cell's next state is determined by the interaction of two layers of computation, allowing for…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-08-15 Abhishek Dalai

Models of areas of physics in terms of cellular automata have become increasingly popular. Cellular automata (CAs) support the modeling of systems with discrete state component values and enforce the comprehensive specification of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Hans H. Diel

In this paper, the author aims to establish a mathematical model for a mimic computer. To this end, a novel automaton is proposed. First, a one-dimensional cellular automaton is used for expressing some dynamic changes in the structure of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Weijun Zhu

Any algorithm (in the sense of Gurevich's abstract-state-machine axiomatization of classical algorithms) operating over any arbitrary unordered domain can be simulated by a dynamic cellular automaton, that is, by a pattern-directed cellular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Nachum Dershowitz , Evgenia Falkovich

Cellular Automata (CA) are commonly investigated as a particular type of dynamical systems, defined by shift-invariant local rules. In this paper, we consider instead CA as algebraic systems, focusing on the combinatorial designs induced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Luca Manzoni , Luca Mariot , Giuliamaria Menara

Cellular Automata (CA) theory is a discrete model that represents the state of each of its cells from a finite set of possible values which evolve in time according to a pre-defined set of transition rules. CA have been applied to a number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Karttikeya Mangalam , K S Venkatesh

Three reasonable hypotheses lead to the thesis that physical phenomena can be described and simulated with cellular automata. In this work, we attempt to describe the motion of a particle upon which a constant force is applied, with a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-03-09 Pablo Arrighi , Gilles Dowek

We construct a cellular automaton (CA) model that describes the movement of a particle in a disordered system. The mathematical properties of the CA model were examined by varying the configuration of grid and determining the number of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Lander Besabe , Editha Jose , Alvin Karlo Tapia

This work studies some aspects of the computational power of fully asynchronous cellular automata (ACA). We deal with some notions of simulation between ACA and Turing Machines. In particular, we characterize the updating sequences…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Jérôme Chandesris , Alberto Dennunzio , Enrico Formenti , Luca Manzoni

In this paper, we explore relationships between two models of systems which are governed by only the local interactions of large collections of simple components: cellular automata (CA) and the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM). While…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Jacob Hendricks , Matthew J. Patitz

I outline a possible logical path from the formulation of physics of classical mechanics to "abstract" systems like cellular automata. The goal of this article is that of illustrating why physicists often study extremely simplified models,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2009-12-11 Franco Bagnoli

The original local, discrete example of Linear Unitary Cellular Automata (LUCA) is analyzed in terms of a new representation previously introduced in [1] for classical CA. Several important underlying symmetries are reviewed and their tight…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-08-22 T. E. Raptis

Number-conserving cellular automata (NCCA) are particularly interesting, both because of their natural appearance as models of real systems, and because of the strong restrictions that number-conservation implies. Here we extend the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Moreira

Cellular automata (CA) are a class of computational models that exhibit rich dynamics emerging from the local interaction of cells arranged in a regular lattice. In this work we focus on a generalised version of typical CA, called graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

A cellular automaton (CA) is a parallel synchronous computing model, which consists in a juxtaposition of finite automata (cells) whose state evolves according to that of their neighbors. Its trace is the set of infinite words representing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Julien Cervelle , Enrico Formenti , Pierre Guillon