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Computing-in-Memory (CiM) is a promising paradigm to address the memory bottleneck constraining traditional systems. Most power-efficient CiM variants can directly perform Boolean operations in non-volatile memory arrays. Higher…

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We present Quasar-1, a novel architecture that introduces temperature-guided reasoning to large language models through the Token Temperature Mechanism (TTM) and Guided Sequence of Thought (GSoT). Our approach leverages the concept of hot…

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For a high temperature non-Abelian plasma, we reformulate the hard thermal loop approximation as an effective classical thermal field theory for the soft modes. The effective theory is written in local Hamiltonian form, and the thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Edmond Iancu

In this thesis we deal with two different topics. In the first half we investigate how the Bayesian formalism can be introduced into the problem of quantum thermometry -- a field which exploits the high level of control in coherent devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Gabriel O. Alves

With increased power consumption of modern computer components, heat-based circuitry has become ever more relevant due to a lower power expense to process logic bits of information. In heat-based circuits, computations are performed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Kasper Poulsen , Nikolaj T. Zinner

Thermal energy agitates all matter and its competition with ordering tendencies is one of the most fundamental organizing principles in the physical world. Thus, it is natural to enquire if an effective temperature could result when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-10 Ming Han , Jing Yan , Steve Granick , Erik Luijten

In this paper we argue that one-way quantum computation can be seen as a form of phase transition with the available information about the solution of the computation being the order parameter. We draw a number of striking analogies between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Janet Anders , Damian Markham , Vlatko Vedral , Michal Hajdušek

Current computers operate at enormous speeds of ~10^13 bits/s, but their principle of sequential logic operation has remained unchanged since the 1950s. Though our brain is much slower on a per-neuron base (~10^3 firings/s), it is capable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Anirban Bandyopadhyay , Ranjit Pati , Satyajit Sahu , Ferdinand Peper , Daisuke Fujita

Following the success of Moore's predictions, we are approaching a limit in the miniaturization of semiconductors for computing materials. This has led to the exploration of various research paths to develop alternative computing paradigms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Dawit Hiluf Hailu

Interest in the thermodynamics of computation has revived in recent years, driven by developments in science, economics and technology. Given the consequences of the growing demand for computational power, the idea of reducing the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-31 Thomas E Ouldridge , Rory A. Brittain , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

A programmable optical computer has remained an elusive concept. To construct a practical computing primitive equivalent to an electronic Boolean logic, one should find a nonlinear phenomenon that overcomes weaknesses present in many…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Tuomo von Lerber , Matti Lassas , Quang Trung Le , Vladimir Lyubopytov , Arkadi Chipouline , Klaus Hofmann , Franko Kueppers

Quantum computing raises the possibility of solving a variety of problems in physics that are presently intractable. A number of such problems involves the physics of systems in or near thermal equilibrium. There are two main ways to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Carter Ball , Thomas D. Cohen

It is proposed that the ability for a quantum circuit to thermalize under time evolution is a valid way to compute linear algebra problems. The algorithm makes use of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and full ergodicity in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Thomas E. Baker

We present the design for a thermodynamic computer that can perform arbitrary nonlinear calculations in or out of equilibrium. Simple thermodynamic circuits, fluctuating degrees of freedom in contact with a thermal bath and confined by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-08 Stephen Whitelam , Corneel Casert

Traditional logic programming relies on symbolic computation on the CPU, which can limit performance for large-scale inference tasks. Recent advances in GPU hardware enable high-throughput matrix operations, motivating a shift toward…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Lun Ai

Emulating thermal observables on a digital quantum computer is essential for quantum simulation of many-body physics. However, thermalization typically requires a large system size due to incorporating a thermal bath, whilst limited…

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Electronic ratchets transduce local spatial asymmetries into directed currents in the absence of a global drain bias, by rectifying temporal signals that reside far from thermal equilibrium. We show that the absence of a drain bias can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mehdi Kabir , Dincer Unluer , Lijun Li , Avik W. Ghosh , Mircea R. Stan

In this paper we consider thermal power of a heat flow through a qubit between two baths. The baths are modeled as set of harmonic oscillators initially at equilibrium, at two temperatures. Heat is defined as the change of energy of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Erik Aurell , Federica Montana

Recent progress in nonlinear optical materials and microresonators has brought quantum computing with bulk optical nonlinearities into the realm of possibility. This platform is of great interest, not only because photonics is an obvious…

We report the first use of "logical labeling" to perform a quantum computation with a room-temperature bulk system. This method entails the selection of a subsystem which behaves as if it were at zero temperature - except for a decrease in…