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While one-dimensional cellular automata have been well studied, there are relatively few results about multidimensional cellular automata; the investigation of cellular automata defined on Cayley trees constitutes an intermediate class.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Chih-Hung Chang , Jing-Yi Su

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

A Quantum Cellular Automaton (QCA) is essentially an operator driving the evolution of particles on a lattice, through local unitaries. Because $\Delta_t=\Delta_x = \epsilon$, QCAs constitute a privileged framework to cast the digital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Dogukan Bakircioglu , Pablo Arnault , Pablo Arrighi

Quantum computing is a new model of computation, based on quantum physics. Quantum computers can be exponentially faster than conventional computers for problems such as factoring. Besides full-scale quantum computers, more restricted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Andris Ambainis , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We investigate a connection between a property of the distribution and a conserved quantity for the reversible cellular automaton derived from a discrete-time quantum walk in one dimension. As a corollary, we give a detailed information of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norio Konno , Kenichi Mitsuda , Takahiro Soshi , Hyun Jae Yoo

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

We provide a complete classification of Clifford quantum cellular automata (QCAs) on arbitrary metric spaces and any qudits (of prime or composite dimensions) in terms of algebraic L-theory. Building on the delooping formalism of Pedersen…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Bowen Yang

Cellular automata are a famous model of computation, yet it is still a challenging task to assess the computational capacity of a given automaton; especially when it comes to showing negative results. In this paper, we focus on studying…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Barbora Hudcová , Jakub Krásenský

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

This paper proposes a generalized framework for cellular automata using the language of category theory, extending the classical definition beyond set-theoretic constraints. For an arbitrary category $\mathscr{C}$ with products, we define…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-05 A. Castillo-Ramirez , A. Vazquez-Aceves , A. Zaldivar-Corichi

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

While for synchronous deterministic cellular automata there is an accepted definition of reversibility, the situation is less clear for asynchronous cellular automata. We first discuss a few possibilities and then investigate what we call…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Simon Wacker , Thomas Worsch

In this work, we develop a method to use Quantum- Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) for universal quantum computing. This method is based conceptually on refocusing in NMR systems. We show how an array of QCA cells can be used for isolated single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Seyed Arash Sheikholeslam , Konrad Walus

Central to the field of quantum machine learning is the design of quantum perceptrons and neural network architectures. A key question in this regard is the impact of quantum effects on the way in which such models process information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Edward Gillman , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

We present a quantum theory of light based on quantum cellular automata (QCA). This approach allows us to have a thorough quantum theory of free electrodynamics encompassing an hypothetical discrete Planck scale. The theory is particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Alessandro Bisio , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Paolo Perinotti

This paper deals with the theory and application of 2-Dimensional, nine-neighborhood, null- boundary, uniform as well as hybrid Cellular Automata (2D CA) linear rules in image processing. These rules are classified into nine groups…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-04-16 Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Birendra Kumar Nayak , Sudhakar Sahoo , Sunil Pankaj Rath

Number-conserving cellular automata (NCCA) are particularly interesting, both because of their natural appearance as models of real systems, and because of the strong restrictions that number-conservation implies. Here we extend the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Moreira

We propose a method for deriving networks from one-dimensional binary cellular automata. The derived networks are usually directed and have structural properties corresponding to the dynamical behaviors of their cellular automata. Network…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-09-28 Yoshihiko Kayama

The model of cellular automata is fascinating because very simple local rules can generate complex global behaviors. The relationship between local and global function is subject of many studies. We tackle this question by using results on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Christoph Durr , Ivan Rapaport , Guillaume Theyssier

In the near future the era of Beyond CMOS will start as the scaling of the current CMOS technology will reach the fundamental limit. QCA (Quantum-dot Cellular Automata) is the transistor less computation paradigm and viable candidate for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Usha Mehta , Vaishali Dhare