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Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

This paper studies three classes of cellular automata from a computational point of view: freezing cellular automata where the state of a cell can only decrease according to some order on states, cellular automata where each cell only makes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Nicolas Ollinger , Guillaume Theyssier

We present results from an experiment similar to one performed by Packard (1988), in which a genetic algorithm is used to evolve cellular automata (CA) to perform a particular computational task. Packard examined the frequency of evolved CA…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Melanie Mitchell , Peter Hraber , James P. Crutchfield

The local rules of Wolfram cellular automata with one-dimensional three-cell neighborhoods are represented by eight-bit binary that encode deterministic update rules. These automata are widely utilized to investigate self-organization…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Kui Tuo , Shengfeng Deng , Yuxiang Yang , Yanyang Wang , Qiuping A. Wang , Wei Li , Wenjun Zhang

We consider a finite collection of reinforced stochastic processes with a general network-based interaction among them. We provide sufficient and necessary conditions in order to have some form of almost sure asymptotic synchronization,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Giacomo Aletti , Irene Crimaldi , Andrea Ghiglietti

Neural synchrony in the brain at rest is usually variable and intermittent, thus intervals of predominantly synchronized activity are interrupted by intervals of desynchronized activity. Prior studies suggested that this temporal structure…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-26 Joel Zirkle , Leonid L Rubchinsky

Computers are deterministic dynamical systems (CHAOS 19:033124, 2009). Among other things, that implies that one should be able to use deterministic forecast rules to predict their behavior. That statement is sometimes-but not always-true.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-24 Joshua Garland , Ryan James , Elizabeth Bradley

Adaptive network is a powerful presentation to describe different real-world phenomena. However, current models often neglect higher-order interactions (beyond pairwise interactions) and diverse adaptation types (cooperative and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-24 S. Nirmala Jenifer , Dibakar Ghosh , Paulsamy Muruganandam

Boolean automata networks (aka Boolean networks) are space-time discrete dynamical systems, studied as a model of computation and as a representative model of natural phenomena. A collection of simple entities (the automata) update their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kévin Perrot , Sylvain Sené , Léah Tapin

The control of chaotic systems implies inducing an unpredictable system to follow a desired trajectory using the smallest "force". In low-dimensional continuous systems, one method is that of reconstructing the tangent space, so that the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-02-03 Franco Bagnoli , Raul Rechtman

Synchronization phenomena are pervasive in biology. In neuronal networks, the mechanisms of synchronization have been extensively studied from both physiological and computational viewpoints. The functional role of synchronization has also…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-06-18 Nicolas Tabareau , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Quang-Cuong Pham

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

Cellular automata provide a fascinating class of dynamical systems capable of diverse complex behavior. These include simplified models for many phenomena seen in nature. Among other things, they provide insight into self-organized…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-02-03 Michael Creutz

Given a synchronous system, we study the question whether the behaviour of that system can be exhibited by a (non-trivially) distributed and hence asynchronous implementation. In this paper we show, by counterexample, that synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Jens-Wolfhard Schicke , Kirstin Peters , Ursula Goltz

A cellular automaton is a deterministic and exactly computable dynamical system which mimics certain fundamental aspects of physical dynamics such as spatial locality and finite entropy. CA systems can be constructed which have additional…

comp-gas · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Margolus

Complex networks are the subject of fundamental interest from the scientific community at large. Several metrics have been introduced to characterize the structure of these networks, such as the degree distribution, degree correlation, path…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-14 Francesco Sorrentino , Abu Bakar Siddique , Louis M. Pecora

Cellular Automata are discrete--time dynamical systems on a spatially extended discrete space which provide paradigmatic examples of nonlinear phenomena. Their stochastic generalizations, i.e., Probabilistic Cellular Automata, are discrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-06 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Francesca R. Nardi , Cristian Spitoni

We investigate the dynamics of a network consisting of an array of identical cortical units with nearest neighbor interactions under periodic arousal. Each unit consists of two interconnected populations of neurons tuned to a state in which…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-12 Leandro M. Alonso

This article is set in the field of regulation networks modeled by discrete dynamical systems. It focuses on Boolean automata networks. In such networks, there are many ways to update the states of every element. When this is done…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Mathilde Noual

Synchrony is one of the most common dynamical states emerging on networks. The speed of convergence towards synchrony provides a fundamental collective time scale for synchronizing systems. Here we study the asymptotic synchronization times…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-30 Carsten Grabow , Stefan Grosskinsky , Marc Timme