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An overview of Quantum Cellular Automata

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arxiv 1904.12956 v2 pith:MUU6I5VU submitted 2019-04-29 quant-ph cs.DMhep-latmath-phmath.DSmath.MP

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Quantum cellular automata consist in arrays of identical finite-dimensional quantum systems, evolving in discrete-time steps by iterating a unitary operator G. Moreover the global evolution G is required to be causal (it propagates information at a bounded speed) and translation-invariant (it acts everywhere the same). Quantum cellular automata provide a model/architecture for distributed quantum computation. More generally, they encompass most of discrete-space discrete-time quantum theory. We give an overview of their theory, with particular focus on structure results; computability and universality results; and quantum simulation results.

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