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Quantum Actin Automata and Three-Valued Logics

Siccardi, Stefano; Adamatzky, Andrew

Authors

Stefano Siccardi



Abstract

© 2016 IEEE. Actin is a filament-forming protein responsible for communication, information processing and decision making in eukariotic cells. To show how computation can be implemented on actin filaments we model actin as a helix of two 1-D quantum automata arrays. The model advances our previous work by exploiting the quantum aspects of the automaton (superposition). We use selected functions of automaton state transitions to compute examples of actin automata evolution and to realize three-valued logical gates in the actin automata. Implementation of operators of several three-valued logical systems is demonstrated on examples. Our results lay a ground for theoretical studies, and possible future experimental laboratory implementations of multiple-valued logical circuits.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 1, 2015
Publication Date Mar 1, 2016
Deposit Date Feb 6, 2018
Journal IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
Print ISSN 2156-3357
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 6
Issue 1
Pages 53-61
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/JETCAS.2016.2528722
Keywords quantum, actin, automata
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/916140
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1109/JETCAS.2016.2528722
Contract Date Feb 6, 2018