A reversible cellular automaton is a cellular automaton in which every configuration has a unique predecessor. That is, it is a regular grid of cells...
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A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is a discrete model of computation studied in automata theory. Cellular automata are also called...
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a cellular automaton is reversible globally if and only if it is reversible at the block level. The ease of designing reversible block cellular automata...
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experiment of 1867 Reverse computation Reversible cellular automaton – Cellular automaton that can be run backwards Reversible dynamics – Type of physical or...
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A second-order cellular automaton is a type of reversible cellular automaton (CA) invented by Edward Fredkin where the state of a cell at time t depends...
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A quantum cellular automaton (QCA) is an abstract model of quantum computation, devised in analogy to conventional models of cellular automata introduced...
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Critters is a reversible block cellular automaton with similar dynamics to Conway's Game of Life, first described by Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus...
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In a cellular automaton, a Garden of Eden is a configuration that has no predecessor. It can be the initial configuration of the automaton but cannot...
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Norman Margolus (category Cellular automatists)
Canadian-American physicist and computer scientist, known for his work on cellular automata and reversible computing. He is a research affiliate with the Computer Science...
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Tommaso Toffoli (category Cellular automatists)
computer Block cellular automaton CAM-6 Computronium Critters (cellular automaton) Programmable matter Reversible cellular automaton Toffoli, Tommaso...
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(asymptotical) stability of motion? Is every reversible cellular automaton in three or more dimensions locally reversible? Sudoku: How many puzzles have exactly...
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Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem (category Cellular automata)
theorem is that, for reversible cellular automata, the reverse dynamics of the automaton can also be described by a cellular automaton. An alphabet is any...
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Billiard-ball computer (category Reversible computing)
computers on several types of reversible cellular automaton, including block cellular automata and second-order cellular automata. In these simulations...
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Automata theory (redirect from Automaton theory)
of automaton. This automaton consists of states (represented in the figure by circles) and transitions (represented by arrows). As the automaton sees...
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semigroup Special classes of semigroups Orthodox semigroup Reversible cellular automaton § One-dimensional automata Biryukov (1970); Fennemore (1970);...
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Surjunctive group (category Cellular automata)
mathematics, a surjunctive group is a group such that every injective cellular automaton with the group elements as its cells is also surjective. Surjunctive...
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making it extremely practical to perform computing with them. A cellular automaton (CA) is a discrete dynamical system consisting of a uniform (finite...
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translation-invariant and continuous) stating that every injective automaton is surjective and therefore also reversible. Ceccherini-Silberstein & Coornaert (2010) p. 276...
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queries; in 2010, iMaat, a digital universe based on a proprietary reversible cellular automaton. The department of Psychoneurophysiology was one of the first...
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quantum logic gates are reversible. It is possible to perform classical computing using only reversible gates. For example, the reversible Toffoli gate can implement...
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Natural computing (redirect from Cellular computing)
dating back to the 1960s, states that the entire universe is a huge cellular automaton which continuously updates its rules. Recently it has been suggested...
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(SRDs), reversible proposals are presented in the "Synthesis Strategy of Reversible Circuits on DNA Computers" paper for implementing reversible gates and...
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Edward Fredkin (category Cellular automatists)
work on reversible computing and cellular automata. While Konrad Zuse's book, Calculating Space (1969), mentioned the importance of reversible computation...
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Unconventional computing (section Reversible computing)
physical entropy. Quantum circuits are reversible as long as they do not collapse quantum states, and reversible functions are bijective, meaning they...
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block cellular automata in which the cells of the automaton are the rhombi of a rhombille tiling and the blocks in alternating steps of the automaton are...
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logic-based automaton, not requiring a physical body but based on the changing states of the cells in an infinite grid – the first cellular automaton. It was...
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Dynamical system (section Cellular automaton)
to the non-negative integers we call the system a semi-cascade. A cellular automaton is a tuple (T, M, Φ), with T a lattice such as the integers or a higher-dimensional...
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Jarkko Kari (category Cellular automatists)
whether a given cellular automaton rule in two or more dimensions is reversible. For one-dimensional cellular automata, reversibility is known to be decidable...
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and half-adders. The same circuits can also be implemented in classical reversible computation, as both CNOT and Toffoli are also classical logic gates....
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spanned across several orders of magnitude. Some of these systems are reversible, such as demagnetisation (by heating a magnet to its Curie temperature)...
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