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The voter model with multiple states has found applications in areas as diverse as population genetics, opinion formation, species competition and language dynamics, among others. In a single step of the dynamics, an individual chosen at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-09 Federico Vazquez , Ernesto S. Loscar , Gabriel Baglietto

A two-state, three-dimensional, deterministic, reversible cellular automaton is shown to be capable of approximately circular orbits, wavelike undulations, and particle-like configurations that decay in accordance with a half-life law.

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-06-12 Daniel B. Miller , Edward Fredkin

The electoral college of voting system for the US presidential election is analogous to a coarse graining procedure commonly used to study phase transitions in physical systems. In a recent paper, opinion dynamics models manifesting a phase…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-22 Kathakali Biswas , Soumyajyoti Biswas , Parongama Sen

Bistable autonomous systems can be found inmany areas of science. When the intrinsic noise intensity is large, these systems exhibits stochastic transitions from onemetastable steady state to another. In electronic bistable memories, these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-14 Léopold Van Brandt , Jean-Charles Delvenne

We study the emergence of information integration in cellular automata (CA) with respect to states in the long run. Information integration is in this case quantified by applying the information-theoretic measure known as total correlation…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-06-04 Kátia K. Cassiano , Valmir C. Barbosa

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 propose and investigate a probabilistic model of sublinear-time one-dimensional cellular automata. In particular, we modify the model of ACA (which are cellular automata that accept if and only if all cells simultaneously accept) so that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Augusto Modanese

In this paper, we start reviewing the main features of the one-dimensional Ising model with long-range interactions, where the spin-spin coupling decays as a power law, $J(r) \propto r^{-\alpha}$. We then discuss the key properties of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Federico Corberi , Eugenio Lippiello , Paolo Politi , Luca Smaldone

We consider a new class of interacting particle systems with a countable number of interacting components. The system represents the time evolution of the membrane potentials of an infinite set of interacting neurons. We prove the existence…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-23 Karina Y. Yaginuma

Starting from preferences on N proposed policies obtained via questionnaires from a sample of the electorate, an Ising spin-glass model in a field can be constructed from which a political party could find the subset of the proposed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-13 M. A. Moore , Helmut G. Katzgraber

This short note aims at proving that the isolation problem is undecidable for probabilistic automata with only one probabilistic transition. This problem is known to be undecidable for general probabilistic automata, without restriction on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Youssouf Oualhadj

Partitioned cellular automata are known to be an useful tool to simulate linear and nonlinear problems in physics, specially because they allow for a straightforward way to define conserved quantities and reversible dynamics. Here we show…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-12-17 Pedro C. S. Costa , Fernando de Melo

We propose some conjectures for asymptotic distribution of probabilistic Burgers cellular automaton (PBCA) which is defined by a simple motion rule of particles including a probabilistic parameter. Asymptotic distribution of configurations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Kazushige Endo

Cellular automata have been useful artificial models for exploring how relatively simple rules combined with spatial memory can give rise to complex emergent patterns. Moreover, studying the dynamics of how rules emerge under artificial…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2014-07-11 Theodore P. Pavlic , Alyssa M. Adams , Paul C. W. Davies , Sara Imari Walker

In this paper we present two interesting properties of stochastic cellular automata that can be helpful in analyzing the dynamical behavior of such automata. The first property allows for calculating cell-wise probability distributions over…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Witold Bołt , Jan M. Baetens , Bernard DeBaets

We demonstrate a discrete implementation of a wave-based majority gate in a chaotic Life-like cellular automaton. The gate functions via controlling of patterns' propagation into stationary channels. The gate presented is realisable in many…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Shigeru Ninagawa , Kenichi Morita

A cellular automaton is a parallel synchronous computing model, which consists in a juxtaposition of finite automata whose state evolves according to that of their neighbors. It induces a dynamical system on the set of configurations, i.e.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-08-25 Pierre Guillon , Gaétan Richard

Presented here is an algorithm for a type-II quantum computer which simulates the Ising model in one and two dimensions. It is equivalent to the Metropolis Monte-Carlo method and takes advantage of quantum superposition for random number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Cole , L. C. L. Hollenberg , S. Prawer

This paper presents a novel approach to the description and understanding of two-dimensional binary cellular automata with the Moore neighborhood that preserve the number of active cells. Such dynamical systems are known to successfully…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-10 B. Wolnik , D. M. Falkiewicz , W. Bołt , A. Rutkowski , B. De Baets

In this paper, we discuss a voting model in which voters can obtain information from a finite number of previous voters. There exist three groups of voters: (i) digital herders and independent voters, (ii) analog herders and independent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Masato Hisakado , Shintaro Mori