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We introduce an action principle for a class of integer valued cellular automata and obtain Hamiltonian equations of motion. Employing sampling theory, these discrete deterministic equations are invertibly mapped on continuum equations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Hans-Thomas Elze

Cellular automata are widely used to model natural or artificial systems. Classically they are run with perfect synchrony, i.e., the local rule is applied to each cell at each time step. A possible modification of the updating scheme…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2008-02-13 Nazim A. Fatès

It is shown that irreversible classical cellular automata can be performed by quantum algorithm using additional ancilla registers. The algorithm for cellular automata states analysis has been proposed. This algorithm is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 B. Pavlyshenko

If the systems of quantum theory are thought of as elementary information carriers in the first place, rather than elementary constituents of matter, and their connections are logical connections within a given algorithm, rather than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 P. Perinotti

Every transitive cellular automaton (CA) is sensitive to initial conditions. We study this implication in the more general context of non-uniform cellular automata (NUCA) with finitely many different local update rules assigned to cells. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Supreeti Kamilya , Jarkko Kari , Katariina Paturi

Cellular automata (CAs) are dynamical systems which exhibit complex global behavior from simple local interaction and computation. Since the inception of cellular automaton (CA) by von Neumann in 1950s, it has attracted the attention of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kamalika Bhattacharjee , Nazma Naskar , Souvik Roy , Sukanta Das

We introduce a new framework for constructing topological quantum memories, by recasting error recovery as a dynamical process on a field generating cellular automaton. We envisage quantum systems controlled by a classical hardware composed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Michael Herold , Earl T. Campbell , Jens Eisert , Michael J. Kastoryano

Cellular automata (CA) are dynamical systems defined by a finite local rule but they are studied for their global dynamics. They can exhibit a wide range of complex behaviours and a celebrated result is the existence of (intrinsically)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Laurent Boyer , Guillaume Theyssier

We study the problem of sequentializing a cellular automaton without introducing any intermediate states, and only performing reversible permutations on the tape. We give a decidable characterization of cellular automata which can be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Jarkko Kari , Ville Salo , Thomas Worsch

Cellular automata are a fundamental computational model with applications in mathematics, computer science, and physics. In this work, we explore the study of cellular automata to cases where the universe is a group, introducing the concept…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Tawfiq Hamed , Mohammad Saleh

Quantum Information and the new informational paradigm are entering the domain of quantum field theory and gravity, suggesting the quantum automata framework. The quantum automaton is the minimal-assumption extension to the Planck and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

Spacetime must be foliable by spacelike surfaces for the quantum mechanics of matter fields to be formulated in terms of a unitarily evolving state vector defined on spacelike surfaces. When a spacetime cannot be foliated by spacelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 James B. Hartle

We consider Clifford Quantum Cellular Automata (CQCAs) and their time evolution. CQCAs are an especially simple type of Quantum Cellular Automata, yet they show complex asymptotics and can even be a basic ingredient for universal quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 Johannes Gütschow , Sonja Uphoff , Reinhard F. Werner , Zoltán Zimborás

To identify potential universal cellular automata, a method is developed to measure information processing capacity of elementary cellular automata. We consider two features of cellular automata: Ability to store information, and ability to…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-03-20 Yanbo Zhang

In this thesis we will work under the premises of the Cellular Automata Interpretation of QM, by Gerard 't Hooft, according to whom particles evolve following the rules of Cellular Automata (CA), a mathematical model consisting of discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Bianca Rizzo

Cellular automata can show well known features of quantum mechanics, such as a linear updating rule that resembles a discretized form of the Schr\"odinger equation together with its conservation laws. Surprisingly, a whole class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-26 Hans-Thomas Elze

A universal map is derived for all deterministic 1D cellular automata (CA) containing no freely adjustable parameters. The map can be extended to an arbitrary number of dimensions and topologies and its invariances allow to classify all CA…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-03-20 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

Cellular automata have long been celebrated for their ability to generate complex behaviors from simple, local rules, with well-known discrete models like Conway's Game of Life proven capable of universal computation. Recent advancements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Gabriel Béna , Maxence Faldor , Dan F. M. Goodman , Antoine Cully

Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

Non locality appearing in QFT during the free evolution of localized field states and in the Feynman propagator function is analyzed. It is shown to be connected to the initial non local properties present at the level of quantum states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Fabrizio Buscemi , Giuseppe Compagno