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Using a group-theoretic approach, a method for determining the equivalence classes (also called orbits) of the set of rules of one-dimensional cellular automata induced by the symmetry operations of reflection and permutation and their…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-10-07 Martin Schaller , Karl Svozil

Any algorithm (in the sense of Gurevich's abstract-state-machine axiomatization of classical algorithms) operating over any arbitrary unordered domain can be simulated by a dynamic cellular automaton, that is, by a pattern-directed cellular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Nachum Dershowitz , Evgenia Falkovich

We study transformations of 2-, 4- and 6-bit numbers in interactions between traveling and stationary localizations in the Spiral Rule reaction-diffusion cellular automaton. The Spiral Rule automaton is a hexagonal ternary-state…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Andrew Adamatzky , Genaro Martinez , Liang Zhang , Andrew Wuensche

Quantum cellular automata are important tools in understanding quantum dynamics, thanks to their simple and effective list of rules. Here we investigate explicitly how coherence is built and lost in the evolution of one-dimensional automata…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Federico Centrone , Marco Barbieri , Alessio Serafini

Cellular automata are a fundamental computational model with applications in mathematics, computer science, and physics. In this work, we explore the study of cellular automata to cases where the universe is a group, introducing the concept…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Tawfiq Hamed , Mohammad Saleh

A quantum cellular automaton (QCA) or a causal unitary is by definition an automorphism of local operator algebra, by which local operators are mapped to local operators. Quantum circuits of small depth, local Hamiltonian evolutions for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Jeongwan Haah

In the vicinity of a phase transition ergodicity can be broken. Here, different initial many-body configurations evolve towards one of several fixed points, which are macroscopically distinguishable through an order parameter. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Mario Boneberg , Simon Kochsiek , Gabriele Perfetto , Igor Lesanovsky

When $G$ is an arbitrary group and $V$ is a finite-dimensional vector space, it is known that every bijective linear cellular automaton $\tau \colon V^G \to V^G$ is reversible and that the image of every linear cellular automaton $\tau…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein , Michel Coornaert

Quantum computing is concerned with computer technology based on the principles of quantum mechanics, with operations performed at the quantum level. Quantum computational models make it possible to analyze the resources required for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Ajay Kumar

We extend Cellular Automata to time-varying discrete geometries. In other words we formalize, and prove theorems about, the intuitive idea of a discrete manifold which evolves in time, subject to two natural constraints: the evolution does…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Pablo Arrighi , Clément Chouteau , Stefano Facchini , Simon Martiel

We study classical and quantum spin models derived from one-dimensional cellular automata (CA) with nonlinear update rules, focusing on rules 30, 54 and 201. We argue that the classical models, defined such that their ground states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Luke Causer , Jamie F. Mair , Stephen Powell , Juan P. Garrahan

A necessary and sufficient condition for a one-dimensional q-state n-input cellular automaton rule to be number-conserving is established. Two different forms of simpler and more visual representations of these rules are given, and their…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 Nino Boccara , Henryk Fuks

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

Cellular automata are interacting classical bits that display diverse emergent behaviors, from fractals to random-number generators to Turing-complete computation. We discover that quantum cellular automata (QCA) can exhibit complexity in…

This paper deals with the theory and application of 2-Dimensional, nine-neighborhood, null- boundary, uniform as well as hybrid Cellular Automata (2D CA) linear rules in image processing. These rules are classified into nine groups…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-04-16 Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Birendra Kumar Nayak , Sudhakar Sahoo , Sunil Pankaj Rath

The model of cellular automata is fascinating because very simple local rules can generate complex global behaviors. The relationship between local and global function is subject of many studies. We tackle this question by using results on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Christoph Durr , Ivan Rapaport , Guillaume Theyssier

Probabilistic Cellular Automata are extended stochastic systems, widely used for modelling phenomena in many disciplines. The possibility of controlling their behaviour is therefore an important topic. We shall present here an approach to…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-03-07 Franco Bagnoli , Sara Dridi , Samira El Yacoubi , Raul Rechtman

Clifford quantum cellular automata (CQCAs) are a special kind of quantum cellular automata (QCAs) that incorporate Clifford group operations for the time evolution. Despite being classically simulable, they can be used as basic building…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-08 Johannes Gütschow

We study a coarse-graining procedure for quantum cellular automata on hypercubic lattices that consists in grouping neighboring cells into tiles and selecting a subspace within each tile. This is done in such a way that multiple evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Lorenzo Siro Trezzini , Alessandro Bisio , Paolo Perinotti

We show that conjugacy of reversible cellular automata is undecidable, whether the conjugacy is to be performed by another reversible cellular automaton or by a general homeomorphism. This gives rise to a new family of finitely-generated…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Ville Salo