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The global majority problem, often referred to as the Density Classification Task, is a classical benchmark in the context of probing the computational capabilities of automata networks. It poses the simple yet challenging problem of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Pedro Paulo Balbi , Kévin Perrot , Marius Rolland , Eurico Ruivo

We introduce an action principle for a class of integer valued cellular automata and obtain Hamiltonian equations of motion. Employing sampling theory, these discrete deterministic equations are invertibly mapped on continuum equations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Hans-Thomas Elze

We introduce unitary network, an oriented architecture for tensor network unitaries. Compared to existing architectures, in a unitary network each local tensor is required to be a unitary matrix upon suitable reshaping. Global unitarity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Wenqing Xie , Seishiro Ono , Hoi Chun Po

Cellular Automata (CA) are discrete dynamical systems and an abstract model of parallel computation. The limit set of a cellular automaton is its maximal topological attractor. A well know result, due to Kari, says that all nontrivial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-02-10 Pietro Di Lena , Luciano Margara

Simulation of quantum matters is a significant application of quantum computers. In contrast to the unitary operation which can be realized naturally on a quantum computer, the implementation of nonunitary operation, widely used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Tong Liu , Jin-Guo Liu , Heng Fan

We describe a simple n-dimensional quantum cellular automaton (QCA) capable of simulating all others, in that the initial configuration and the forward evolution of any n-dimensional QCA can be encoded within the initial configuration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 Pablo Arrighi , Jonathan Grattage

A quantum cellular automaton (QCA) is an abstract model consisting of an array of finite-dimensional quantum systems that evolves in discrete time by local unitary operations. Here we propose a simple coarse-graining map, where the spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Pedro C. S. Costa

By using an exact analytical non-Hermitian formalism involving the full set of resonance (quasinormal) states and complex energy eigenvalues for quantum tunneling decay, we show that unitarity holds at any instant of time for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-13 Gastón García-Calderón , Roberto Romo

We show that the linearity of an evolution of Quantum Mechanics follows from the definition of kinematics. The same result is obtained for an arbitrary theory with the state space that includes mixtures of different preparations. Next, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Ziman , Peter Stelmachovic

Attempts to consider evolution across space-time singularities often lead to quantum systems with time-dependent Hamiltonians developing an isolated singularity as a function of time. Examples include matrix theory in certain singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin

The stabilization of nonlinear systems under zero-state-detectability assumption or its analogues is considered. The proposed supervisory control provides a finite time practical stabilization of output and it is based on uniting local and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Denis Efimov , Alexander L. Fradkov

We investigate critical properties of a class of number-conserving cellular automata (CA) which can be interpreted as deterministic models of traffic flow with anticipatory driving. These rules are among the only known CA rules for which…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-12-18 Henryk Fuks

We employ $(1 + 1)$-dimensional quantum cellular automata to study the evolution of entanglement and coherence near criticality in quantum systems that display non-equilibrium steady-state phase transitions. This construction permits direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Edward Gillman , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

Every transitive cellular automaton (CA) is sensitive to initial conditions. We study this implication in the more general context of non-uniform cellular automata (NUCA) with finitely many different local update rules assigned to cells. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Supreeti Kamilya , Jarkko Kari , Katariina Paturi

Optimal realizations of quantum technology tasks lead to the necessity of a detailed analytical study of the behavior of a $d$-level quantum system (qudit) under a time-dependent Hamiltonian. In the present article, we introduce a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Elena R. Loubenets , Christian Käding

Cellular automata, CA for short are continuous maps defined on the set of configurations over a finite alphabet A that commutes with the shift. They are characterized by the existence of local function which determine by local behavior the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Rezki Chemlal

We show that quantum cellular automata naturally form the degree-zero part of a coarse homology theory. The recent result of Ji and Yang that the space of QCA forms an Omega-spectrum in the sense of algebraic topology is a direct…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Matthias Ludewig

An automata network (AN) is a finite graph where each node holds a state from a finite alphabet and is equipped with a local map defining the evolution of the state of the node depending on its neighbors. They are studied both from the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Martín Ríos-Wilson , Guillaume Theyssier

We formalize a notion of discrete Lorentz transforms for Quantum Walks (QW) and Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA), in (1 + 1)-dimensional discrete spacetime. The theory admits a diagrammatic representation in terms of a few local, circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Pablo Arrighi , Stefano Facchini , Marcelo Forets

One of the core questions of quantum physics is how to reconcile the unitary evolution of quantum states, which is information-preserving and time-reversible, with evolution following the second law of thermodynamics, which, in general, is…