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A natural architecture for nanoscale quantum computation is that of a quantum cellular automaton. Motivated by this observation, in this paper we begin an investigation of exactly unitary cellular automata. After proving that there can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 David A. Meyer

We present a 2-dimensional cellular automaton model for the simulation of pedestrian dynamics. The model is extremely efficient and allows simulations of large crowds faster than real time since it includes only nearest-neighbour…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Schadschneider

In this work, we investigate the computational aspects of asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs), a modification of cellular automata in which cells update independently, following an asynchronous schedule. We introduce flip automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ivan Baburin , Matthew Cook , Florian Grötschla , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

This note is a survey of examples and results about cellular automata with the purpose of recalling that there is no 'universal' way of being computationally universal. In particular, we show how some cellular automata can embed efficient…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Guillaume Theyssier

Exactly ergodicity in boundary-driven semi-infinite cellular automata (CA) are investigated. We establish all the ergodic rules in CA with 3, 4, and 5 states. We analytically prove the ergodicity for 12 rules in 3-state CA and 118320 rules…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-04-13 Naoto Shiraishi , Shinji Takesue

We prove that the (language of the) asymptotic set (and the nonwandering set) of a one-dimensional cellular automaton can be $\SIGMA^1_1$-hard. We do not go into much detail, since the constructions are relatively standard.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Ville Salo

Signals are a classical tool used in cellular automata constructions that proved to be useful for language recognition or firing-squad synchronisation. Particles and collisions formalize this idea one step further, describing regular nets…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-22 Nicolas Ollinger , Gaétan Richard

In this paper, we look at the extention of Hedlund's characterization of cellular automata to the case of cellular automata in the hyperbolic plane. This requires an additionnal condition. The new theorem is proved with full details in the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-29 Maurice Margenstern

The cellular automaton is a widely known model of both reversible and irreversible computations. The family of reversible second-order cellular automata considered in this work is appropriate both for construction of logic gates and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-05-10 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

The positive rates conjecture states that a one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton (PCA) with strictly positive transition rates must be ergodic. The conjecture has been refuted by G\'acs, whose counterexample is a cellular…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-08 Hugo Marsan , Mathieu Sablik , Ilkka Törmä

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

One-dimensional cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems that operate on an infinite lattice of sites and are characterized by the locality and uniformity of their update rule. Permutations of the state set and isometric…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-12-10 Martin Schaller , Karl Svozil

We propose a calibrated two-dimensional cellular automaton model to simulate pedestrian motion behavior. It is a v=4 (3) model with exclusion statistics and random shuffled dynamics. The underlying regular grid structure results in a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-01 Michael Schultz , Hartmut Fricke

We propose a characteristic representation ofone-dimensional and 2-state, 3-neighbor cellular automaton rules, which describes an effective form of each rule after many time steps. Simulated results of the representation show that complex…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Y. Kayama , H. Anada , Y. Imamura , 9 pages

I describe a quantum cellular automaton capable of performing universal quantum computation. The automaton has an elementary transition function that acts on Margolus cells of $2\times 2$ qubits, and both the ``quantum input'' and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Raussendorf

While the reversibility of multidimensional cellular automata is undecidable and there exists a criterion for determining if a multidimensional linear cellular automaton is reversible, there are only a few results about the reversibility…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Chih-Hung Chang , Hasan Akın

In this paper we study the dynamics of 1- and 2- dimensional cellular automata, using a 2-adic representation of the states, we give a simple graphical technique for finding periodic solutions. We also study the continuity properties of the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-07-06 Xu Xu , Yi Song , Stephen P. Banks

We propose and discuss two variants of kinetic particle models - cellular automata in 1+1 dimensions, which have some appeal due to their simplicity and intriguing properties which could warrant further research and applications. The first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-17 Tomaz Prosen

We define quantum cellular automata as infinite quantum lattice systems with discrete time dynamics, such that the time step commutes with lattice translations and has strictly finite propagation speed. In contrast to earlier definitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Schumacher , R. F. Werner

We introduce and study cellular automata whose cell spaces are left-homogeneous spaces. Examples of left-homogeneous spaces are spheres, Euclidean spaces, as well as hyperbolic spaces acted on by isometries; uniform tilings acted on by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Simon Wacker