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A Non-Qubit Quantum Adder as One-Dimensional Cellular Automaton
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
  • Cheng-Hsiao Wu, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • C. A. Cain
Abstract

A complete quantum addition machine is presented and compared with methods employing unitary transformations first. A quantum half-adder circuit shown earlier can be implemented into each cell of a 1D cellular automaton. An electric Aharonov-Bohm effect version of the quantum circuit is used to illustrate this implementation. Whatever a quantum Turing machine can achieve is realized in the cellular automata architecture we propose here. The coherence requirement is limited to one cell area. The magnetic flux needed is 0.1Φ0, corresponding to 0.414 mT for a ring area of 1 square micron or an electric potential of 0.414 mV at 1 ps with an energy dissipation of 0.041 eV per iteration.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Aharonov-Bohm effect,
  • Cellular Automaton,
  • Electronic transport,
  • Quantum computing,
  • Turing machine
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2014 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Publication Date
01 Jan 2014
Citation Information
Cheng-Hsiao Wu and C. A. Cain. "A Non-Qubit Quantum Adder as One-Dimensional Cellular Automaton" Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures Vol. 59 (2014) p. 244 - 247 ISSN: 1386-9477
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cheng-hsiao-wu/4/