Recent progresses in magnetoionics offer exciting potentials to leverage its non-linearity, short-term memory, and energy-efficiency to uniquely advance the field of physical reservoir computing. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate the classification of temporal data using a magneto-ionic (MI) heterostructure. The device was specifically engineered to induce non-linear ion migration dynamics, which in turn imparted non-linearity and short-term memory (STM) to the magnetization. These capabilities, key features for enabling reservoir computing, were investigated, and the role of the ion migration mechanism, along with its history-dependent influence on STM, was explained. These attributes were utilized to distinguish between sine and square waveforms within a randomly distributed set of pulses. Additionally, two important performance metrics, short-term memory and parity check capacity (PC), were quantified, yielding promising values of 1.44 and 2, respectively, comparable to those of other state-of-the-art reservoirs. Our work paves the way for exploiting the relaxation dynamics of solid-state magneto-ionic platforms and developing energy-efficient magneto-ionic reservoir computing devices.
@article{arxiv.2412.06964,
title = {Magneto-Ionic Physical Reservoir Computing},
author = {Md Mahadi Rajib and Dhritiman Bhattacharya and Christopher J. Jensen and Gong Chen and Fahim F Chowdhury and Shouvik Sarkar and Kai Liu and Jayasimha Atulasimha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.06964},
year = {2025}
}