Relative computational power of integrable and nonintegrable soliton systems

  • Mariusz Jakubowski ,
  • Ken Steiglitz ,
  • Richard K. Squier

Fourth Workshop on Physics and Computation: PhysComp '96 |

The present document is devoted to the question of whether eff ective computation can be performed by the interaction of solitons [24, 34] in a bulk medium. The resulting computational system would fulfi ll the promise of To oli’s “programmable matter” [42] | off ering computation that is very close to the underlying physics, and therefore potentially providing ultra-scale parallel processing.