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We study the generic limit sets of one-dimensional cellular automata, which intuitively capture their asymptotic dynamics while discarding transient phenomena. As our main results, we characterize the automata whose generic limit set is a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Ilkka Törmä

We present the first experimental realization of a ratchet cellular automaton (RCA) which has been recently suggested as an alternative approach for performing logical operations with interacting (quasi) particles. Our study was performed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Dusan Babic , Clemens Bechinger

In this paper we investigate certain properties of semi-totalistic cellular automata (CA) on the well known quasi-periodic kite and dart two dimensional tiling of the plane presented by Roger Penrose. We show that, despite the irregularity…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Katsunobu Imai , Takahiro Hatsuda , Victor Poupet , Kota Sato

We define and explore in simulation several rules for the local evolution of generative rules for 1D and 2D cellular automata. Our implementation uses strategies from conceptual blending. We discuss potential applications to modelling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Joseph Corneli , Ewen Maclean

One can think of some physical evolutions as being the emergent-effective result of a microscopic discrete model. Inspired by classical coarse-graining procedures, we provide a simple procedure to coarse-grain color-blind quantum cellular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 O. Duranthon , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

Since first introduced by John von Neumann, the notion of cellular automaton has grown into a key concept in computer science, physics and theoretical biology. In its classical setting, a cellular automaton is a transformation of the set of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Alonso Castillo-Ramirez , Maximilien Gadouleau

The compact Genetic Algorithm (cGA) is an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm that generates offspring population according to the estimated probabilistic model of the parent population instead of using traditional recombination and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-01-07 Reza Rastegar , Arash Hariri

Cellular automata are arrays of finite state machines that can exist in a finite number of states. These machines update their states simultaneously based on specific local rules that govern their interactions. This framework provides a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-08-11 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Guanrong Chen

We consider the typical asymptotic behaviour of cellular automata of higher dimension (greater than 2). That is, we take an initial configuration at random according to a Bernoulli (i.i.d) probability measure, iterate some cellular…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Martin Delacourt , Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus

This investigation studies the ergodic properties of reversible linear cellular automata over $\mathbb{Z}_m$ for $m \in \mathbb{N}$. We show that a reversible linear cellular automaton is either a Bernoulli automorphism or non-ergodic. This…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Chih-Hung Chang , Huilan Chang

Cellular automata are a discrete dynamical system which models massively parallel computation. Much attention is devoted to computations with small time complexity for which the parallelism may provide further possibilities. In this paper,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Anaël Grandjean , Gaétan Richard , Véronique Terrier

Cellular automata have long been celebrated for their ability to generate complex behaviors from simple, local rules, with well-known discrete models like Conway's Game of Life proven capable of universal computation. Recent advancements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Gabriel Béna , Maxence Faldor , Dan F. M. Goodman , Antoine Cully

A brief introduction to Wolfram's work on cellular automata.

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Pratip Bhattacharyya

In this paper we consider the identification problem of Cellular Automata (CAs). The problem is defined and solved in the context of partial observations with time gaps of unknown length, i.e. pre-recorded, partial configurations of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Witold Bołt , Jan M. Baetens , Bernard De Baets

In this paper we introduce a new quantum computation model, the linear quantum cellular automaton. Well-formedness is an essential property for any quantum computing device since it enables us to define the probability of a configuration in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christoph Durr , Huong LeThanh , Miklos Santha

We introduce a novel framework of reservoir computing, that is capable of both connectionist machine intelligence and symbolic computation. Cellular automaton is used as the reservoir of dynamical systems. Input is randomly projected onto…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Ozgur Yilmaz

In structural proof theory, designing and working on large calculi make it difficult to get intuitions about each rule individually and as part of a whole system. We introduce two novel tools to help working on calculi using the approach of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Valentin D. Richard

In this paper, we prove that there is a strongly universal cellular automaton on the heptagrid with seven states which is rotation invariant. This improves a previous paper of the author where the automaton required ten states.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Maurice Margenstern

In this paper, we show a construction of a weakly universal cellular automaton in the 3D hyperbolic space with two states. The cellular automaton is rotation invariant and, moreover, based on a new implementation of a railway circuit in the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-27 Maurice Margenstern

A classical local cellular automaton can describe an interacting quantum field theory for fermions. We construct a simple classical automaton for a particular version of the Thirring model with imaginary coupling. This interacting fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 C. Wetterich