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Quantum Cellular Automata workshop

Event Details:

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - Thursday, March 12, 2026

Location

CoDa - 450 Simonyi Center
389 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

This workshop is co-hosted by Jeongwan Haah, David Long and Dominic Williamson

Quantum cellular automata (QCA), or more properly locality-preserving unitaries, have emerged as a new frontier in the study of topological phases and symmetries in theoretical physics. In the context of the topological phases of matter, QCA appear as disentangling transformations of invertible states and localized phases and are destined to provide a new homotopy spectrum indexed by spatial dimensions. The subject calls for renewed attention to operator algebras in many-body physics and finds growing connections to recent generalized symmetries. This Q-FARM workshop aims to enhance appreciation of these facets and facilitate further developments.

Confirmed Speakers - View schedule here

Dominic ElsePerimeter 
Corey JonesNC StateClassification of categorical dualities on spin chains
Bowen YangHarvardGroup Completion and the Classification of Quantum Cellular Automata
Nat TantivasadakarnCaltech/Stony BrookGeneralized Kramers-Wannier Self-Duality in Hopf-Ising Models
Lukasz FidkowskiUniv. WashingtonA QCA for every SPT
Carolyn ZhangHarvardNon-onsiteable symmetries and symmetry-protected quantum cellular automata (and beyond)
Xie ChenCaltechSequential Quantum Circuit
Meng ChengYale 
Ryan ThorngrenUCLAQCAs, Invertible States, and Anomalies on the Lattice
Wilbur ShirleyU of ChicagoBraided Fusion Complexes: An Algebraic Theory of Abelian Excitations
Roman GeikoUCLAInvertible codes and QCA
Laurens LootensCambridge 
Dan RanardCaltechApproximate QCAs and approximate algebras
Andreas BauerMITDisentangling modular Walker-Wang models via fermionic invertible boundaries
Meng SunPeking Univ.Constructing QCA from TQFT and Invertible Subalgebra——From Clifford to Non-Clifford
Sahand SeifnashriIASNon-invertible Quantum Cellular Automata
David PenneysOhio State Univ.2D Braided categorical nets and restricted local operators

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