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It has been shown that certain quantum walks give rise to relativistic wave equations, such as the Dirac and Weyl equations, in their long-wavelength limits. This intriguing result raises the question of whether something similar can happen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Leonard Mlodinow , Todd A. Brun

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

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) provides a basis for classical computation without transistors. Many simulations of QCA rely upon the so-called Intercellular Hartree Approximation (ICHA), which neglects the possibility of entanglement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Marco Taucer , Faizal Karim , Konrad Walus , Robert A. Wolkow

In this paper we present a quantization of Cellular Automata. Our formalism is based on a lattice of qudits, and an update rule consisting of local unitary operators that commute with their own lattice translations. One purpose of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-17 Carlos A. Perez-Delgado , Donny Cheung

We build a quantum cellular automaton (QCA) which coincides with 1+1 QED on its known continuum limits. It consists in a circuit of unitary gates driving the evolution of particles on a one dimensional lattice, and having them interact with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Kevissen Sellapillay , Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

We provide algebraic criteria for the unitarity of linear quantum cellular automata, i.e. one dimensional quantum cellular automata. We derive these both by direct combinatorial arguments, and by adding constraints into the model which do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) may offer a viable alternative of traditional transistor-based technology at the nanoscale. When modeling a QCA circuit, the number of degrees of freedom necessary to describe the quantum mechanical state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geza Toth , Craig S. Lent

We introduce a scheme to perform universal quantum computation in quantum cellular automata (QCA) fashion in arbitrary subsystem dimension (not necessarily finite). The scheme is developed over a one spatial dimension $N$-element array,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-02 G. A. Paz-Silva , G. K. Brennen , J. Twamley

Very much as its classical counterpart, quantum cellular automata are expected to be a great tool for simulating complex quantum systems. Here we introduce a partitioned model of quantum cellular automata and show how it can simulate, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Pedro C. S. Costa , Renato Portugal , Fernando de Melo

Quantum cellular automata (QCA) evolve qubits in a quantum circuit depending only on the states of their neighborhoods and model how rich physical complexity can emerge from a simple set of underlying dynamical rules. For instance,…

Quantum cellular automata are important tools in understanding quantum dynamics, thanks to their simple and effective list of rules. Here we investigate explicitly how coherence is built and lost in the evolution of one-dimensional automata…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Federico Centrone , Marco Barbieri , Alessio Serafini

We construct a novel three-dimensional quantum cellular automaton (QCA) based on a system with short-range entangled bulk and chiral semion boundary topological order. We argue that either the QCA is nontrivial, i.e. not a finite-depth…

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

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

Cellular automata are interacting classical bits that display diverse emergent behaviors, from fractals to random-number generators to Turing-complete computation. We discover that quantum cellular automata (QCA) can exhibit complexity in…

We classify quantum cellular automata whose cells are qubits, on hypercubic lattices $\mathbb Z^s$, with the von Neumann neighborhood scheme, in terms of realizability as finite-depth quantum circuits. We show the most general structure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Andrea Pizzamiglio , Alessandro Bisio , Paolo Perinotti

In this paper, in order to investigate natural transformations from discrete CA to QCA, we introduce a new formulation of finite cyclic QCA and generalized notion of partitioned QCA. According to the formulations, we demonstrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuichi Inokuchi , Yoshihiro Mizoguchi

We present a general framework for constructing quantum cellular automata (QCA) from topological quantum field theories (TQFT) and invertible subalgebras (ISA) using the cup-product formalism. This approach explicitly realizes all…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Meng Sun , Bowen Yang , Zongyuan Wang , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Yu-An Chen

We propose an architecture based on Quantum cellular Automata which allows the use of only one type of quantum gates per computational step in order to perform nearest neighbor interactions. The model is built in partial steps, each one of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-10-21 D. Ntalaperas , N. Konofaos

We have previously proposed a way of using coupled quantum dots to construct digital computing elements - quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA). Here we consider a different approach to using coupled quantum-dot cells in an architecture…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geza Toth , Craig S. Lent , P. Douglas Tougaw , Yuriy Brazhnik , Weiwen Weng , Wolfgang Porod , Ruey-Wen Liu , Yih-Fang Huang