Simulation of Quantum Mechanics Using Reactive Programming

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how reactive programming can be used to simulate key quantum mechanics phenomena like superposition, interference, and entanglement through a cellular automaton model within a synchronous environment.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to quantum simulation using reactive programming and cellular automata, highlighting the potential for simplified, modular quantum models.

Findings

Successful simulation of quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement

Implementation of a cellular automaton within a synchronous reactive framework

Demonstrates the feasibility of modeling quantum mechanics with elementary components

Abstract

We implement in a reactive programming framework a simulation of three aspects of quantum mechanics: self-interference, state superposition, and entanglement. The simulation basically consists in a cellular automaton embedded in a synchronous environment which defines global discrete instants and broadcast events. The implementation shows how a simulation of fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics can be obtained from the synchronous parallel combination of a small number of elementary components.