Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are one of the most promising alternative platforms of the future. Recent years have witnessed the development of basic logic structures as well as more complex processing structures, however most in the realm of binary logic. On the grounds that future platforms should not disregard the advantages of multi-valued logic, Lebar Bajec et al. were the first to s...

While still relatively “new”, the quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) appears to be able to provide many of the properties and functionalities that have made CMOS successful over the past several decades. Early experiments have demonstrated and realized most, if not all, of the “fundamentals” needed for a computational circuit – devices, logic gates, wires, etc. This study introduces the beginn...

We investigate the benefit of using ESOP minimization in the synthesis of quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA). We determine the size and delay of multi-input XOR and AND/OR gates when implemented in using 3-input majority gates that are easily realized in QCA, and use our results in our QCAexor estimator tool. We found that most benchmarks have at least one output that can be better minimized u...

Our interest in this article is prompted by the vibronic problem of charge polarized states in the four-dot molecular quantum cellular automata (mQCA), a paradigm for nanoelectronics, in which binary information is encoded in charge configuration of the mQCA cell. The polarization of the cell is evaluated and we show how the partial delocalization caused by the joint action of the vibronic coup...

Quantum-dot cellular automaton (QCA) is a novel nanotechnology that provides a very different computation platform than traditional CMOS, in which polarization of electrons indicates the digital information. This paper demonstrates designing combinational circuits based on quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) nanotechnology, which offers a way to implement logic and all interconnections with onl...

Novel digital technologies always lead to high density and very low power consumption. One of these concepts is Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA), which is one of the new emerging nanotechnology-based on Coulomb repulsion. This article presents three architectures of logical “XOR” gate, a novel structure of two inputs “XOR” gate, which is used as a module to implement four inputs “XOR” gate a...

Among emerging technologies, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an attractive alternative for transistor based technologies. In this paper, novel efficient Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) devices are proposed that provide 3-input and 4-input AND & OR gates. These gates have simple structure and are efficient in term of cell counts, complexity and latency. These components are suitable f...

In this paper, the different types of logical structure based on Quantum dot Cellular Automata (QCA) design are discussed. The QCA offers a new transistorless computing paradigm in nanotechnology. It has the potential for attractive features such as faster speed , smaller size and low power consumption than transistor based technology .By taking the advantages of QCA we are able to design inter...

we study the eigenenergies and eigenfunctions of the ground and first excited states (gfes) of an electron strongly coupled to the lo-phonon in an asymmetry quantum dot (aqd) under an applied electric field by using a variational method of the pekar type (vmpt). this aqd two-level system may be viewed as a single qubit. when the electron is in the superposition state (ss) of the gfes, the effec...