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Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata: Logic Without Current

Interactive quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) simulator: toggle a driver cell and watch its electrostatic polarization state cascade down a wire of nanoscale 4-dot cells purely through Coulomb repulsion, with zero current flow. Switch to a 3-input majority gate and program it as AND or OR by fixing one input.

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This simulator models quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), a nanoscale computing architecture that encodes a bit not as current flow but as the electrostatic polarization of a 4-dot cell shared by two electrons. Flip a driver cell and watch each neighbor re-settle into the Coulomb-energy-minimizing polarization in turn, cascading a logic signal down a wire with zero charge transport. Switch to the majority-gate mode to see three inputs vote on a shared device cell — the universal QCA primitive — and lock one input to turn it into an AND or OR gate.

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Interactive quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) simulator: toggle a driver cell and watch its electrostatic polarization state cascade down a wire of nanoscale 4-dot cells purely through Coulomb repulsion, with zero current flow. Switch to a 3-input majority gate and program it as AND or OR by fixing one input.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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