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Probabilistic bits (p-bits) are stochastic hardware elements whose output probability can be tuned by an input bias, offering a route to energy-efficient architectures that exploit, rather than suppress, fluctuations. Here we report p-bit…

We propose a novel hybrid single-electron device for reprogrammable low-power logic operations, the magnetic single-electron transistor (MSET). The device consists of an aluminium single-electron transistors with a GaMnAs magnetic…

Probabilistic bits (p-bits) offer an energy-efficient hardware abstraction for stochastic optimization; however, existing p-bit-based simulated annealing accelerators suffer from poor scalability and limited support for fully connected…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Naoya Onizawa , Taiga Kubuta , Duckgyu Shin , Takahiro Hanyu

The success of the transistor as the cornerstone of digital computation motivates analogous efforts to identify an equivalent hardware primitive, the probabilistic bit or p-bit, for the emerging paradigm of probabilistic computing. Here, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Abir Hasan , Nikhil Shukla

Stochastic p-Bit devices play a pivotal role in solving NP-hard problems, neural network computing, and hardware accelerators for algorithms such as the simulated annealing. In this work, we focus on Stochastic p-Bits based on high-barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 X. H. Li , M. K. Zhao , R. Zhang , C. H. Wan , Y. Z. Wang , X. M. Luo , S. Q. Liu , J. H. Xia , G. Q. Yu , X. F. Han

Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) provide a path to solving many computationally hard problems more efficiently than deterministic algorithms on von Neumann computers. Stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions (S-MTJs), which are engineered to…

Probabilistic graphical models are powerful mathematical formalisms for machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty that are widely used for cognitive computing. However they cannot be employed efficiently for large problems (with…

Emerging non-volatile memories have been proposed for a wide range of applications from easing the von-Neumann bottleneck to neuromorphic applications. Specifically, scalable RRAMs based on Pr$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$MnO$_3$ (PCMO) exhibit analog…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Vivek Saraswat , Udayan Ganguly

In this paper we present a concrete design for a probabilistic (p-) computer based on a network of p-bits, robust classical entities fluctuating between -1 and +1, with probabilities that are controlled through an input constructed from the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Brian Sutton , Rafatul Faria , Lakshmi A. Ghantasala , Risi Jaiswal , Kerem Y. Camsari , Supriyo Datta

The possible use of spin and magnets in place of charge and capacitors to store and process information is well known. Magnetic tunnel junctions are being widely investigated and developed for magnetic random access memories. These are two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Behtash Behin-Aein , Jian-Ping Wang , Roland Wiesendanger

Binary stochastic neurons (BSNs) are excellent activators for machine learning. An ideal platform for implementing them are low- or zero-energy-barrier nanomagnets (LBMs) possessing in-plane anisotropy (e.g. circular or slightly elliptical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Despite their appeal as physics-inspired, energy-based and generative nature, general Boltzmann Machines (BM) are considered intractable to train. This belief led to simplified models of BMs with restricted intralayer connections or…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Shuvro Chowdhury , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

The Boltzmann Machine (BM) is a neural network composed of stochastically firing neurons that can learn complex probability distributions by adapting the synaptic interactions between the neurons. BMs represent a very generic class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Brian Kiraly , Elze J. Knol , Hilbert J. Kappen , Alexander A. Khajetoorians

The brain interprets ambiguous sensory information faster and more reliably than modern computers, using neurons that are slower and less reliable than logic gates. But Bayesian inference, which underpins many computational models of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Vikash Mansinghka , Eric Jonas

Directed acyclic graphs or Bayesian networks that are popular in many AI related sectors for probabilistic inference and causal reasoning can be mapped to probabilistic circuits built out of probabilistic bits (p-bits), analogous to binary…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Rafatul Faria , Jan Kaiser , Kerem Y. Camsari , Supriyo Datta

The end of Moore's law for CMOS technology has prompted the search for low-power computing alternatives, resulting in several promising proposals based on magnetic logic[1-8]. One approach aims at tailoring arrays of nanomagnetic islands in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Pieter Gypens , Jonathan Leliaert , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Bartel Van Waeyenberge , Daniele Pinna

True random number generators are of great interest in many computing applications such as cryptography, neuromorphic systems and Monte Carlo simulations. Here we investigate perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction nanopillars (pMTJs)…

Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) based p-bit neuromorphic computing devices are garnering increasing interest as a means to compactly and efficiently realize machine learning operations in Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs). When…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Paul Wood , Hossein Pourmeidani , Ronald F. DeMara

Stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions (s-MTJ) is a promising component of probabilistic bit (p-bit), which plays a pivotal role in probabilistic computers. For a standard cell structure of the p-bit, s-MTJ is desired to be insensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Rikuto Ota , Keito Kobayashi , Keisuke Hayakawa , Shun Kanai , Kerem Y. Çamsarı , Hideo Ohno , Shunsuke Fukami

Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs) are of great interest for non-conventional computing applications. The Toffoli gate is a universal reversible logic gate, enabling the construction of arbitrary boolean circuits. Here, we present a…