2023/03/01 by Durham, Ian T.
#Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2303.00174
Boolean networks, first developed in the late 1960s as a tool for studying complex disordered dynamical systems, consist of nodes governed by Boolean functions whose evolution is entirely deterministic in that the state of the network at a given time fully determines the state of the network at some future time. They are known for exhibiting a high degree of spontaneous order and have since become a fundamental tool for modeling a wide variety of systems. In this article I develop a model for quantum autonomous Boolean networks that exhibits many of the same properties as the classical model while also demonstrating uniquely quantum properties within a rich landscape of behavior.