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We describe a simple n-dimensional quantum cellular automaton (QCA) capable of simulating all others, in that the initial configuration and the forward evolution of any n-dimensional QCA can be encoded within the initial configuration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 Pablo Arrighi , Jonathan Grattage

One-dimensional quantum cellular automata (QCA) consist in a line of identical, finite dimensional quantum systems. These evolve in discrete time steps according to a local, shift-invariant unitary evolution. By local we mean that no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-15 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Nesme , Reinhard Werner

Advancements in computing based on qubit networks, and in particular the flux-qubit processor architecture developed by D-Wave System's Inc., have enabled the physical simulation of quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) networks beyond the…

Quantum dot cellular automata (QCA) computing schemes use arrays of quantum dots as computational devices. Typically, these operate ideally by maintaining arrays in their ground state to ensure correct computational output. For large QCA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-14 Daniel Brox

We propose an architecture based on Quantum cellular Automata which allows the use of only one type of quantum gates per computational step in order to perform nearest neighbor interactions. The model is built in partial steps, each one of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-10-21 D. Ntalaperas , N. Konofaos

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

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

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

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

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

Over an arbitrary commutative ring $R$, we develop a theory of quantum cellular automata. We then use algebraic K-theory to construct a space $\mathbf{Q}(X)$ of quantum cellular automata (QCA) on a given metric space $X$. In most cases of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Mattie Ji , Bowen Yang

Taking the excess electron spin in a unit cell of semiconductor multiple quantum-dot structure as a qubit, we can implement scalable quantum computation without resorting to spin-spin interactions. The technique of single electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei-Min Zhang , Yin-Zhong Wu , Chopin Soo

Quantum cellular automata (QCAs) are automorphisms of tensor product algebras that preserve locality, with local quantum circuits as a simple example. We study approximate QCAs, where the locality condition is only satisfied up to a small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Daniel Ranard , Michael Walter , Freek Witteveen

Quantum computers process information with the laws of quantum mechanics. Current quantum hardware is noisy, can only store information for a short time, and is limited to a few quantum bits, i.e., qubits, typically arranged in a planar…

Very much as its classical counterpart, quantum cellular automata are expected to be a great tool for simulating complex quantum systems. Here we introduce a partitioned model of quantum cellular automata and show how it can simulate, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Pedro C. S. Costa , Renato Portugal , Fernando de Melo

We construct a simple translationally invariant, nearest-neighbor Hamiltonian on a chain of 10-dimensional qudits that makes it possible to realize universal quantum computing without any external control during the computational process.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Nagaj , Pawel Wocjan

A method of quantization of classical soliton cellular automata (QSCA) is put forward that provides a description of their time evolution operator by means of quantum circuits that involve quantum gates from which the associated Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Demosthenes Ellinas , Elena P. Papadopoulou , Yiannis G. Saridakis

We propose a physical realization of quantum cellular automata (QCA) using arrays of ultracold atoms excited to Rydberg states. The key ingredient is the use of programmable multifrequency couplings which generalize the Rydberg blockade and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 T. M. Wintermantel , Y. Wang , G. Lochead , S. Shevate , G. K. Brennen , S. Whitlock

Elementary cellular automata (ECA) present iconic examples of complex systems. Though described only by one-dimensional strings of binary cells evolving according to nearest-neighbour update rules, certain ECA rules manifest complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Matthew Ho , Andri Pradana , Thomas J. Elliott , Lock Yue Chew , Mile Gu

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