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Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Quantum Game of Life

Daniela Bleh, Tommaso Calarco, Simone Montangero

Published Jan 1, 2012• 32 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a quantum version of the Game of Life and we use it to study the emergence of complexity in a quantum world. We show that the quantum evolution displays signatures of complex behaviour similar to the classical one, however a regime exists, where the quantum Game of Life creates more complexity, in terms of diversity, with respect to the corresponding classical reversible one. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2012

DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/97/20012

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