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Cellular automata (CA) are a class of computational models that exhibit rich dynamics emerging from the local interaction of cells arranged in a regular lattice. In this work we focus on a generalised version of typical CA, called graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

We discuss the role of classical control in the context of reversible quantum cellular automata. Employing the structure theorem for quantum cellular automata, we give a general construction scheme to turn an arbitrary cellular automaton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. J. Shepherd , T. Franz , R. F. Werner

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…

A universal map is derived for all deterministic 1D cellular automata (CA) containing no freely adjustable parameters. The map can be extended to an arbitrary number of dimensions and topologies and its invariances allow to classify all CA…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-03-20 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

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

In this paper, we introduce classically time-controlled quantum automata or CTQA, which is a reasonable modification of Moore-Crutchfield quantum finite automata that uses time-dependent evolution and a "scheduler" defining how long each…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Marcos Villagra

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

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 present a quantum cellular automaton model in one space-dimension which has the Dirac equation as emergent. This model, a discrete-time and causal unitary evolution of a lattice of quantum systems, is derived from the assumptions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Alessandro Bisio , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Alessandro Tosini

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

This paper studies the number conservation property of 1-dimensional non-uniform cellular automata (CAs). In a non-uniform cellular automaton (CA), different cells may follow different rules. The present work considers that the cells follow…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Raju Hazari , Sukanta Das

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

In recent work [quant-ph/0405174] by Schumacher and Werner was discussed an abstract algebraic approach to a model of reversible quantum cellular automata (CA) on a lattice. It was used special model of CA based on partitioning scheme and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

Cellular automata (CA) consist of an array of identical cells, each of which may take one of a finite number of possible states. The entire array evolves in discrete time steps by iterating a global evolution G. Further, this global…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Pablo Arrighi , Renan Fargetton , Vincent Nesme , Eric Thierry

Classical Cellular Automata (CCAs) are a powerful computational framework widely used to model complex systems driven by local interactions. Their simplicity lies in the use of a finite set of states and a uniform local rule, yet this…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-03-20 Enrico Formenti , Faizal Hafiz , Amelia Kunze , Davide La Torre

Classical Cellular Automata (CCAs) are a powerful computational framework for modeling global spatio-temporal dynamics with local interactions. While CCAs have been applied across numerous scientific fields, identifying the local rule that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Faizal Hafiz , Amelia Kunze , Enrico Formenti , Davide La Torre

In this thesis we will work under the premises of the Cellular Automata Interpretation of QM, by Gerard 't Hooft, according to whom particles evolve following the rules of Cellular Automata (CA), a mathematical model consisting of discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Bianca Rizzo

We propose an iterative algorithm to investigate the cooperative evolution dominated by information encoded within state spaces in a random quantum cellular automaton. Inspired by the 2-gram model in statistical linguistics, the updates of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Guanhua Chen , Yao Yao

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

We investigate a connection between a property of the distribution and a conserved quantity for the reversible cellular automaton derived from a discrete-time quantum walk in one dimension. As a corollary, we give a detailed information of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norio Konno , Kenichi Mitsuda , Takahiro Soshi , Hyun Jae Yoo