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Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is one of the most important computing technologies for the future and will be the alternative candidate for current CMOS technology. QCA is attracting a lot of researchers due to many features such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Esam Alkaldy , Ali H. Majeed , Mohd Shamian Zainal , Danial Md. Nor

A quantum cellular automaton (QCA) is an abstract model consisting of an array of finite-dimensional quantum systems that evolves in discrete time by local unitary operations. Here we propose a simple coarse-graining map, where the spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Pedro C. S. Costa

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

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

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

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

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) as a nanoscale transistor-less device technology offers distinguishing advantages over the limitations of CMOS circuits. While more than 2 decades of design progress have been achieved with QCA, a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Shadi Sheikhfaal

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 (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 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

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…

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

Quantum error correction (QEC) is fundamental for quantum information processing but entails a substantial overhead of classically-controlled quantum operations, which can be architecturally cumbersome to accommodate. Here we discuss a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-26 Joseph Kerckhoff , Hendra I. Nurdin , Dmitri S. Pavlichin , Hideo Mabuchi

Ultimate bounds on the maximum operating frequency of networks of quantum dot cellular automata devices have yet to be established. We consider the adiabaticity of such networks in the two-state approximation where clocking is achieved via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jacob Retallick , Konrad Walus

We examine the impact of the intrinsic molecular reorganization energy on switching in two-state quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) cells. Switching a bit involves an electron transferring between charge centers within the molecule. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Subhash S. Pidaparthi , Craig S. Lent

We present a new cellular data processing scheme, a hybrid of existing cellular automata (CA) and gate array architectures, which is optimized for realization at the quantum scale. For conventional computing, the CA-like external clocking…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. C. Benjamin , N. F. Johnson

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

Quantum dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is the emerging area in the field of nanotechnology. Inverter is a fundamental logic primitive in QCA. Molecular, semiconductor, magnetic, and metallic QCA are main methodology in the fabrication of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Angshuman Khan , Surajit Sur , Chiradeep Mukherjee , Aninda Sankar Sukla , Ratna Chakrabarty

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