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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

There exists an index theory to classify strictly local quantum cellular automata in one dimension. We consider two classification questions. First, we study to what extent this index theory can be applied in higher dimensions via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 M. Freedman , M. B. Hastings

In this paper we consider invertible one-dimensional linear cellular automata (CA hereafter) defined on a finite alphabet of cardinality $p^k$, i.e. the maps $T_{f[l,r]}:\mathbb{Z}^{\mathbb{Z}}_{p^k}\to\mathbb{Z}^{\mathbb{Z}}_{p^k}$ which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-02-24 Hasan Akin

We show that the first-order logical theory of the binary overlap-free words (and, more generally, the ${\alpha}$-free words for rational ${\alpha}$, $2 < {\alpha} \leq 7/3$), is decidable. As a consequence, many results previously obtained…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 L. Schaeffer , J. Shallit

Since first introduced by John von Neumann, the notion of cellular automaton has grown into a key concept in computer science, physics and theoretical biology. In its classical setting, a cellular automaton is a transformation of the set of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Alonso Castillo-Ramirez , Maximilien Gadouleau

The property of reversibility is quite meaningful for the classic theoretical computer science model, cellular automata. For the reversibility problem for a CA under null boundary conditions, while linear rules have been studied a lot, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ma Junchi , Chen Weilin , Wang Chen , Lin Defu , Wang Chao

We derive a class of cellular automata for the Schr\"odinger Hamiltonian, including scalar and vector potentials. It is based on a multi-split of the Hamiltonian, resulting in a multi-step unitary evolution operator in discrete time and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Kees van Berkel , Jan de Graaf , Kees van Hee

Quantum cellular automata (QCAs) are automorphisms of tensor product algebras that preserve locality, with local quantum circuits as a simple example. We study approximate QCAs, where the locality condition is only satisfied up to a small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Daniel Ranard , Michael Walter , Freek Witteveen

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

Topological transitivity is a fundamental notion in topological dynamics and is widely regarded as a basic indicator of global dynamical complexity. For general cellular automata, topological transitivity is known to be undecidable. By…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Niccolò Castronuovo , Alberto Dennunzio , Luciano Margara

In this paper we introduce a new quantum computation model, the linear quantum cellular automaton. Well-formedness is an essential property for any quantum computing device since it enables us to define the probability of a configuration in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christoph Durr , Huong LeThanh , Miklos Santha

We consider quantum cellular automata for one-dimensional chains of Fermionic modes and study their implementability as finite depth quantum circuits. Fermionic automata have been classified in terms of an index modulo circuits and the…

This paper presents an application of the Infinite Unit Axiom, introduced by Yaroslav Sergeyev, (see [11] - [14]) to the development of one-dimensional cellular automata. This application allows the establishment of a new and more precise…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-10-28 Louis D'Alotto

The basis for most of the ideas mentioned in this paper is the theory of cellular automata. A cellular automata contains a regular grid of cells, with each cell having a pre-defined set of finite states. The initial state is determined at…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Raghavendra Bhat

A regular language L is said to be cellular if there exists a 1-dimensional cellular automaton CA such that L is the language consisting of the finite blocks associated with CA. It is shown that cellularity of a regular language is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-13 Udayan B. Darji , Steve W. Seif

The properties of two-state nearest-neighbour cellular automata (CA) that are capable of density classification are discussed. It is shown that these CA actually conserve the total density, rather than merely classifying it. This is also…

comp-gas · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Sukumar

Tarski initiated a logic-based approach to formal geometry that studies first-order structures with a ternary betweenness relation \beta, and a quaternary equidistance relation \equiv. Tarski established, inter alia, that the first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Antti Kuusisto , Jeremy Meyers , Jonni Virtema

This paper investigates reversibility properties of 1-dimensional 3-neighborhood d-state finite cellular automata (CAs) of length n under periodic boundary condition. A tool named reachability tree has been developed from de Bruijn graph…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Kamalika Bhattacharjee , Sukanta Das

We investigate some general properties of algebraic cellular automata, i.e., cellular automata over groups whose alphabets are affine algebraic sets and which are locally defined by regular maps. When the ground field is assumed to be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein , Michel Coornaert

A one-dimensional cellular automaton $\tau : A^\mathbb{Z} \to A^\mathbb{Z}$ is a transformation of the full shift defined via a finite neighborhood $S \subset \mathbb{Z}$ and a local function $\mu : A^S \to A$. We study the family of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-04-22 Alonso Castillo-Ramirez , Maria G. Magaña-Chavez , Luguis de los Santos Baños