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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

Cyclic cellular automata (CCA) are models of excitable media. Started from random initial conditions, they produce several different kinds of spatial structure, depending on their control parameters. We introduce new tools from information…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Kristina Lisa Shalizi

Non-uniform cellular automata (NUCA) are an extension of cellular automata (CA), which transform cells according to multiple different local rules. A NUCA is defined by a configuration of local rules called a local rule distribution. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Katariina Paturi

The dynamical behavior of non-uniform cellular automata is compared with the one of classical cellular automata. Several differences and similarities are pointed out by a series of examples. Decidability of basic properties like…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-27 Alberto Dennunzio , Enrico Formenti , Julien Provillard

Higher-order cellular automata (HOCA) are a variant of cellular automata (CA) used in many applications (ranging, for instance, from the design of secret sharing schemes to data compression and image processing), and in which the global…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Alberto Dennunzio , Enrico Formenti , Luca Manzoni , Luciano Margara , Antonio E. Porreca

We summarize a recent study of discrete (integer-valued) Hamiltonian cellular automata (CA) showing that their dynamics can only be consistently defined, if it is linear in the same sense as unitary evolution described by the Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Hans-Thomas Elze

Recently, we have proposed a {\em Euler-Lagrange transformation} for cellular automata(CA) by developing new transformation formulas. Applying this method to the Burgers CA(BCA), we have succeeded in obtaining the Lagrange representation of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 Junta Matsukidaira , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Cellular automata are a set of computational models in discrete space that have a discrete time evolution defined by neighbourhood rules. They are used to simulate many complex systems in physics and science in general. In this work,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-05-12 Luca Bertolani , Andrea Idini

The complexity of cellular automata is traditionally measured by their computational capacity. However, it is difficult to choose a challenging set of computational tasks suitable for the parallel nature of such systems. We study the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Barbora Hudcová , Tomáš Mikolov

This paper introduces a new formalism for quantum cellular automata (QCAs), based on evolving tensor products of qubits using local unitary operators. It subsequently uses this formalism to analyze and validate several conjectures, stemming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Ruhi Shah , Jonathan Gorard

Linear conjunctive grammars are a family of formal grammars with an explicit conjunction operation allowed in the rules, which is notable for its computational equivalence fo one-way real-time cellular automata, also known as trellis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Ilya Olkhovsky , Alexander Okhotin

This paper introduces Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata (DiffLogic CA), a novel combination of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) and Differentiable Logic Gates Networks (DLGNs). The fundamental computation units of the model are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pietro Miotti , Eyvind Niklasson , Ettore Randazzo , Alexander Mordvintsev

A synopsis is offered of the properties of discrete and integer-valued, hence "natural", cellular automata (CA). A particular class comprises the "Hamiltonian CA" with discrete updating rules that resemble Hamilton's equations. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Hans-Thomas Elze

A small-world cellular automaton network has been formulated to simulate the long-range interactions of complex networks using unconventional computing methods in this paper. Conventional cellular automata use local updating rules. The new…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-03-26 Xin-She Yang , Young Z. L. Yang

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

A cellular automaton (CA) is a parallel synchronous computing model, which consists in a juxtaposition of finite automata (cells) whose state evolves according to that of their neighbors. Its trace is the set of infinite words representing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Julien Cervelle , Enrico Formenti , Pierre Guillon

We give a one-dimensional quantum cellular automaton (QCA) capable of simulating all others. By this we mean that the initial configuration and the local transition rule of any one-dimensional QCA can be encoded within the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 Pablo Arrighi , Renan Fargetton , Zizhu Wang

Topological dynamics of cellular automata (CA), inherited from classical dynamical systems theory, has been essentially studied in dimension 1. This paper focuses on 2D CA and aims at showing that the situation is different and more…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-04-29 Mathieu Sablik , Guillaume Theyssier

We describe a class of cellular automata (CAs) that are end-to-end differentiable. DCAs interpolate the behavior of ordinary CAs through rules that act on distributions of states. The gradient of a DCA with respect to its parameters can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Carlos Martin

A map on finitely many fermionic modes represents a unitary evolution if and only if it preserves canonical anti-commutation relations. We use this condition for the classification of fermionic cellu- lar automata (FCA) on Cayley graphs of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Paolo Perinotti , Leopoldo Poggiali