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In this paper we present a systematic view of Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA), a mathematical formalism of quantum computation. First we give a general mathematical framework with which to study QCA models. Then we present four different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos A. Perez-Delgado , Donny Cheung

Cellular automaton (CA) approach is an important theoretical framework for studying complex system behavior and has been widely applied in various research field. CA traffic flow models have the advantage of flexible evolution rules and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-10-09 Junfang Tian , Chenqiang Zhu , Rui Jiang

Cellular automata (CA) are dynamical systems defined by a finite local rule but they are studied for their global dynamics. They can exhibit a wide range of complex behaviours and a celebrated result is the existence of (intrinsically)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Laurent Boyer , Guillaume Theyssier

We say that a Cellular Automata (CA) is coalescing when its execution on two distinct (random) initial configurations in the same asynchronous mode (the same cells are updated in each configuration at each time step) makes both…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-12-13 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier , Michel Morvan

We extend a previously introduced semi-analytical representation of a decomposition of CA dynamics in arbitrary dimensions and neighborhood schemes via the use of certain universal maps in which CA rule vectors are derivable from the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2017-08-29 Theophanes E. Raptis

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

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-03 Mathieu Sablik , Guillaume Theyssier

Cellular automata (CA) are well-studied models of decentralized parallel computation, known for their ability to exhibit complex global behavior from simple local rules. While their dynamics have been widely explored through simulations, a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dana Fisman , Noa Izsak

Cellular Automata (CA) have long been foundational in simulating dynamical systems computationally. With recent innovations, this model class has been brought into the realm of deep learning by parameterizing the CA's update rule using an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Magnus Petersen

This paper studies complexity of recognition of classes of bounded configurations by a generalization of conventional cellular automata (CA) -- finite dynamic cellular automata (FDCA). Inspired by the CA-based models of biological and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maxim Makatchev

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

We show how the trajectories of $d$-dimensional cellular automata (CA) can be used to determine the ground states of $(d+1)$-dimensional classical spin models, and we characterise their quantum phase transition, when in the presence of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-31 Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Luke Causer , Jamie F. Mair , Juan P. Garrahan

Cellular automata, CA for short are continuous maps defined on the set of configurations over a finite alphabet A that commutes with the shift. They are characterized by the existence of local function which determine by local behavior the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Rezki Chemlal

This study focuses on an extended model of a standard cellular automaton (CA) that includes an extra index consisting of a radius that defines a perception area for each cell in addition to the radius defined by the CA rule. Extended…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Yoshihiko Kayama

We study a two-dimensional cellular automaton (CA), called Diffusion Rule (DR), which exhibits diffusion-like dynamics of propagating patterns. In computational experiments we discover a wide range of mobile and stationary localizations…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Harold V. McIntosh

Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are a model of morphogenesis, capable of growing two-dimensional artificial organisms from a single seed cell. In this paper, we show that NCAs can be trained to respond to signals. Two types of signal are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 James Stovold

This article surveys some theoretical aspects of Cellular Automata (CAs) research. In particular, we discuss on maximal length CA. An n-cell CA is a maximal length CA, if all the configurations except one form a single cycle. There is a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sumit Adak , Sukanta Das

The synchronization of two stochastically coupled one-dimensional cellular automata (CA) is analyzed. It is shown that the transition to synchronization is characterized by a dramatic increase of the statistical complexity of the patterns…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan R. Sánchez , Ricardo López-Ruiz

In this paper I present a first attempt for a possible description of fluids dynamics by mean of a cellular automata technique. With the use of simple and elementary rules, based on random behaviour either, the model permits to obtain the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gianluca Argentini

This paper studies two kinds of simulation between cellular automata: simulations based on factor and simulations based on sub-automaton. We show that these two kinds of simulation behave in two opposite ways with respect to the complexity…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Pierre Guillon , Pierre-Etienne Meunier , Guillaume Theyssier

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