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We present evidence that operation of QCA (Quantum Cellular Automaton) cells with four dots is possible with an occupancy of 4N+2 electrons per cell (N being an integer). We show that interaction between cells can be described in terms of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Girlanda , M. Governale , M. Macucci , G. Iannaccone

Quantum cellular automata (QCA) are reviewed, including early and more recent proposals. QCA are a generalization of (classical) cellular automata (CA) and in particular of reversible CA. The latter are reviewed shortly. An overview is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-06 K. Wiesner

Several proposed schemes for the physical realization of a quantum computer consist of qubits arranged in a cellular array. In the quantum circuit model of quantum computation, an often complex series of two-qubit gate operations is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gavin K. Brennen , Jamie E. Williams

Design paradigms of logic circuits with Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) have been extensively studied in the recent past. Unfortunately, due to the lack of mature fabrication support, QCA-based circuits often suffer from various types…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Dharmendra Kumar , Debasis Mitra , Bhargab B. Bhattacharya

Discretizing spacetime is often a natural step towards modelling physical systems. For quantum systems, if we also demand a strict bound on the speed of information propagation, we get quantum cellular automata (QCAs). These originally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Terry Farrelly

Quantum cellular automata (QCA) constitute space and time homogeneous discrete models for quantum field theories (QFTs). Although QFTs are defined without reference to particles, computations are done in terms of Feynman diagrams, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 David A. Meyer , Asif Shakeel

We propose a new environment for information encoding and transmission via a novel type of molecular Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) wire, composed of a single row of head-to-tail interacting 2-dots molecular switches. While most of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Alberto M. Pintus , Andrea Gabrieli , Federico G. Pazzona , Giovanni Pireddu , Pierfranco Demontis

The quantum cellular automata (QCA) effect is a transition in which multiple electron move coordinately by Coulomb interactions and observed in multiple quantum dots. This effect will be useful for realizing and improving quantum cellular…

Taking the excess electron spin in a unit cell of semiconductor multiple quantum-dot structure as a qubit, we can implement scalable quantum computation without resorting to spin-spin interactions. The technique of single electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei-Min Zhang , Yin-Zhong Wu , Chopin Soo

Power dissipation is known as the most notable limiting factor in all nano-electronic design techniques including Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA). The familiar reversible computing approach is used as a reasonably reliable solution,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Moein Sarvaghad-Moghaddam , Ali A. Orouji , Zeinab Ramezani , Iraj Sadegh Amiri , Alireza Mahdavi Nejad

Quantum dot cellular automata (QCA) computing schemes use arrays of quantum dots as computational devices. Typically, these operate ideally by maintaining arrays in their ground state to ensure correct computational output. For large QCA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-14 Daniel Brox

Quantum cellular automata are alternative quantum-computing paradigms to quantum Turing machines and quantum circuits. Their working mechanisms are inherently automated, therefore measurement free, and they act in a translation invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Thiago L. M. Guedes , Don Winter , Markus Müller

The spin states of single electrons in gate-defined quantum dots satisfy crucial requirements for a practical quantum computer. These include extremely long coherence times, high-fidelity quantum operation, and the ability to shuttle…

By the progressive scaling of the feature size and power consumption in VLSI chips the part of energy dissipated due to information loss in irreversible computations will become a serious limitation in the near future. Quantum-dot cellular…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Elham Taherkhani , Mohammad Hossein Moaiyeri , Shaahin Angizi

There is nowhere else in emerging technology, but in Quantum-dot Cellular Automata, one can find high speed, low power operation, and high packaging density, which deals with electrostatic interaction between electrons within a cell.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Angshuman Khan , Chiradeep Mukherjee , Ankan Kumar Chakraborty , Ratna Chakrabarty , Debashis De

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

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCAs) offer a diffusive computing paradigm with picosecond transmission speed, making them an ideal candidate for moving diffusive computing to real-world applications. By implementing a trainable associative…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-01-07 James Stovold

This research describes a three dimensional quantum cellular automaton (QCA) which can simulate all other 3D QCA. This intrinsically universal QCA belongs to the simplest subclass of QCA: Partitioned QCA (PQCA). PQCA are QCA of a particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi , Jonathan Grattage

The use of buried dopants to construct quantum-dot cellular automata is investigated as an alternative to conventional electronic devices for information transport and elementary computation. This provides a limit in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jared H. Cole , Andrew D. Greentree , Cameron J. Wellard , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg , Steven Prawer

Information in a Quantum Cellular Automata architecture is encoded in the polarizazion state of a cell, i.e., in the occupation numbers of the quantum dots of which the cell is made up. Non-invasive charge detectors of single electrons in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Iannaccone , C. Ungarelli , M. Macucci , E. Amirante , M. Governale