Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2009-07-22
Physics
Quantum Physics
26 pages, 15 figures. Journal paper incorporating arXiv:0907.3827 and arXiv:1002.1015
Scientific paper
There have been several non-axiomatic approaches taken to define Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA). Partitioned QCA (PQCA) are the most canonical of these non-axiomatic definitions. In this work we first show that any QCA can be put into the form of a PQCA. Our construction reconciles all the non-axiomatic definitions of QCA, showing that they can all simulate one another, and hence that they are all equivalent to the axiomatic definition. Next, we describe a simple n-dimensional 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 the intrinsically universal QCA, and that several steps of the intrinsically universal QCA then correspond to one step of the simulated QCA. Both results are made formal by defining generalised n-dimensional intrinsic simulation, i.e. a notion of simulation which preserves the topology in the sense that each cell of the simulated QCA is encoded as a group of adjacent cells in the universal QCA. We argue that this notion brings the computer science based concepts of simulation and universality one step closer to theoretical physics.
Arrighi Pablo
Grattage Jonathan
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