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Quantum cellular automata (QCA) constitute space and time homogeneous discrete models for quantum field theories (QFTs). Although QFTs are defined without reference to particles, computations are done in terms of Feynman diagrams, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 David A. Meyer , Asif Shakeel

The Thirring Quantum Cellular Automaton (QCA) describes the discrete time dynamics of local fermionic modes that evolve according to one step of the Dirac cellular automaton followed by the most general on-site number-preserving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Alessandro Bisio , Paolo Perinotti , Andrea Pizzamiglio , Saverio Rota

We introduce a scheme to perform universal quantum computation in quantum cellular automata (QCA) fashion in arbitrary subsystem dimension (not necessarily finite). The scheme is developed over a one spatial dimension $N$-element array,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-02 G. A. Paz-Silva , G. K. Brennen , J. Twamley

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a low-power, non-von-Neumann, general-purpose paradigm for classical computing using transistor-free logic. An elementary QCA device called a "cell" is made from a system of coupled quantum dots with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Enrique P. Blair

It has been shown that certain quantum walks give rise to relativistic wave equations, such as the Dirac and Weyl equations, in their long-wavelength limits. This intriguing result raises the question of whether something similar can happen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Leonard Mlodinow , Todd A. Brun

Simulations of one quantum system by an other has an implication in realization of quantum machine that can imitate any quantum system and solve problems that are not accessible to classical computers. One of the approach to engineer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Arindam Mallick , C. M. Chandrashekar

There have been several non-axiomatic approaches taken to define Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA). Partitioned QCA (PQCA) are the most canonical of these non-axiomatic definitions. In this work we show that any QCA can be put into the form…

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

There have been several non-axiomatic approaches taken to define Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA). Partitioned QCA (PQCA) are the most canonical of these non-axiomatic definitions. In this work we first show that any QCA can be put into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-14 Pablo Arrighi , Jonathan Grattage

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

Quantum walks on lattices can give rise to one-particle relativistic wave equations in the long-wavelength limit. In going to multiple particles, quantum cellular automata (QCA) are natural generalizations of quantum walks. In one spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Todd A. Brun , Leonard Mlodinow

Quantum computation based on quantum cellular automata (QCA) can greatly reduce the control and precision necessary for experimental implementations of quantum information processing. A QCA system consists of a few species of qubits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yaakov S. Weinstein , C. Stephen Hellberg

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

We consider discrete and integer-valued cellular automata (CA). A particular class of which comprises "Hamiltonian CA" with equations of motion that bear similarities to Hamilton's equations, while they present discrete updating rules. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Hans-Thomas Elze

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

There exists an index theory to classify strictly local quantum cellular automata in one dimension. We consider two classification questions. First, we study to what extent this index theory can be applied in higher dimensions via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 M. Freedman , M. B. Hastings

We build a quantum cellular automaton (QCA) which coincides with 1+1 QED on its known continuum limits. It consists in a circuit of unitary gates driving the evolution of particles on a one dimensional lattice, and having them interact with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Kevissen Sellapillay , Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

This study presents a unitary quantum cellular automaton (QCA) that, in the continuum limit, converges to the (1+1)-dimensional Generalized Dirac Equation (GDE). We outline the construction of the unitary, discrete-time evolution and derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Xingyou Song

Quantum dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a novel and potentially attractive technology for implementing computing architectures at the nanoscale. The basic Boolean primitive in QCA is the majority gate. In this paper we present a novel design…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , O. Kavehie , K. Navi

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 show that quantum cellular automata naturally form the degree-zero part of a coarse homology theory. The recent result of Ji and Yang that the space of QCA forms an Omega-spectrum in the sense of algebraic topology is a direct…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Matthias Ludewig