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In this paper, we investigate the abilities of systems of self-assembling tiles which can each pass a constant number of signals to their immediate neighbors to create replicas of input shapes. Namely, we work within the Signal-passing Tile…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Andrew Alseth , Jacob Hendricks , Matthew J. Patitz , Trent A. Rogers

Many forms of programmable matter have been proposed for various tasks. We use an abstract model of self-organizing particle systems for programmable matter which could be used for a variety of applications, including smart paint and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Alexandra Porter , Andréa W. Richa

Parity compilation is the challenge of laying out the required constraints for the parity mapping in a local way. We present the first constructive compilation algorithm for the parity architecture using plaquettes for arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Roeland ter Hoeven , Benjamin E. Niehoff , Sagar Sudhir Kale , Wolfgang Lechner

In circuit-based quantum computing, the available gate set typically consists of single-qubit gates acting on each individual qubit and at least one entangling gate between pairs of qubits. In certain physical architectures, however, some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 M. Pechal , G. Salis , M. Ganzhorn , D. J. Egger , M. Werninghaus , S. Filipp

We prove the unique assembly and unique shape verification problems, benchmark measures of self-assembly model power, are $\mathrm{coNP}^{\mathrm{NP}}$-hard and contained in $\mathrm{PSPACE}$ (and in $\mathrm{\Pi}^\mathrm{P}_{2s}$ for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Robert Schweller , Andrew Winslow , Tim Wylie

We show that the Tile Assembly Model exhibits a strong notion of universality where the goal is to give a single tile assembly system that simulates the behavior of any other tile assembly system. We give a tile assembly system that is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-09-08 David Doty , Jack H. Lutz , Matthew J. Patitz , Scott M. Summers , Damien Woods

Research on data confidentiality, integrity and availability is gaining momentum in the ICT community, due to the intrinsically insecure nature of the Internet. While many distributed systems and services are now based on secure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Antonio Magnani , Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti , Moreno Marzolla

Tile assembly systems in the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM) are computationally universal and capable of building complex shapes, but DNA-based implementations encounter formidable error rates that stifle this theoretical potential.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Phillip Drake , Daniel Hader , Matthew J. Patitz

We introduce the Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming framework for the quantum compilation problem and apply it in the context of topological quantum computing. In this setting, quantum gates are realized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Pavel Rytir , Phillip C. Burke , Christos Aravanis , Jiri Vala , Jakub Marecek

The engineering challenges involved in building large scale quantum computers, and the associated infrastructure requirements, mean that when such devices become available it is likely that this will be in limited numbers and in limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Monireh Houshmand , Mahboobeh Houshmand , Si-Hui Tan , Joseph Fitzsimons

In the fully-anonymous (shared-memory) model, inspired by a biological setting, processors have no identifiers and memory locations are anonymous. This means that there is no pre-existing agreement among processors on any naming of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Giuliano Losa , Eli Gafni

Designing quantum processors is a complex task that demands advanced verification methods to ensure their correct functionality. However, traditional methods of comprehensively verifying quantum devices, such as quantum process tomography,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Keren Li , Peng Yan , Hanru Jiang , Nengkun Yu

A physically-motivated genetic algorithm (GA) and full enumeration for a tile-based model of self-assembly (JaTAM) is implemented using a graphics processing unit (GPU). We observe performance gains with respect to state-of-the-art…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Christian Schroeder de Witt

Large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation requires compiling logical circuits into physical operations tailored to a given architecture. Prior work addressing this challenge has mostly focused on the surface code and lattice surgery…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Laura S. Herzog , Lucas Berent , Aleksander Kubica , Robert Wille

In this paper, we explore relationships between two models of systems which are governed by only the local interactions of large collections of simple components: cellular automata (CA) and the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM). While…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Jacob Hendricks , Matthew J. Patitz

Coherent gate errors are a concern in many proposed quantum computing architectures. These errors can be effectively handled through composite pulse sequences for single-qubit gates, however, such techniques are less feasible for entangling…

Quantum computation with quantum data that can traverse closed timelike curves represents a new physical model of computation. We argue that a model of quantum computation in the presence of closed timelike curves can be formulated which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dave Bacon

A fully homomorphic encryption system hides data from unauthorized parties, while still allowing them to perform computations on the encrypted data. Aside from the straightforward benefit of allowing users to delegate computations to a more…

In some physical implementations of quantum computers, 2-qubit operations can be applied only on certain pairs of qubits. Compilation of a quantum circuit into one compliant to such qubit connectivity constraint results in an increase of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Pei Yuan , Shengyu Zhang

In this paper, we introduce the following problem in the theory of algorithmic self-assembly: given an input shape as the seed of a tile-based self-assembly system, design a finite tile set that can, in some sense, uniquely identify whether…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-16 Matthew J. Patitz , Scott M. Summers