Published July 24, 2019 | public
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Reversible Computation Using Swap Reactions on a Surface

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Abstract

Chemical reaction networks (CRNs) and DNA strand displacement systems have shown potential for implementing logically and physically reversible computation. It has been shown that CRNs on a surface allow highly scalable and parallelizable computation. In this paper, we demonstrate that simple rearrangement reactions on a surface, which we refer to as swaps, are capable of physically reversible Boolean computation. We present designs for elementary logic gates, a method for constructing arbitrary feedforward digital circuits, and a proof of their correctness.

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© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. First Online: 24 July 2019. T. Brailovskaya, G. Gowri and S. Yu—Equal contribution. Support from National Science Foundation grant CCF-1317694 is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank Lulu Qian and Chris Thachuk for helpful discussion and comments.

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