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Crossbar architectures have long been seen as a promising foundation for in-memory computing, using memristor arrays for high-density, energy-efficient analog computation. However, this conventional architecture suffers from a fundamental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Tingwei Zhang , Jiahui Liu , David Allstot , Huaping Liu

We consider quantum computer architectures where interactions are mediated between hot qubits that are not in their mechanical ground state. Such situations occur, e.g., when not cooling ideally, or when moving ions or atoms around. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Ferran Riera-Sàbat , Pavel Sekatski , Wolfgang Dür

The memristor is promising to be the basic cell of next-generation computation systems. Compared to the traditional MOSFET device, the memristor is efficient over energy and area. But one of the biggest challenges faced with researchers is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Junyi Li , Fulin Peng , Fan Yang , Xuan Zeng

Junctionless oxide-based neuron thin-film transistors with in-plane-gate structure are fabricated at room temperature with a laser scribing process. The neuron transistors are composed of a bottom ITO floating gate and multiples of two…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-19 Li Qiang Zhu , Guo Dong Wu , Ju Mei Zhou , Wei Dou , Hong Liang Zhang , Qing Wan

As it is getting increasingly difficult to achieve gains in the density and power efficiency of microelectronic computing devices because of lithographic techniques reaching fundamental physical limits, new approaches are required to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Jean C. Coulombe , Mark C. A. York , Julien Sylvestre

We propose an implementation of quantum logic gates via virtual vibrational excitations in an ion trap quantum computer. Transition paths involving unpopulated, vibrational states interfere destructively to eliminate the dependence of rates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anders Sorensen , Klaus Molmer

Mechanical metamaterials composed of bistable elements have recently emerged as promising platforms for mechanical memory. Traditional approaches to writing information in these systems typically rely on localized actuation or predefined…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Audrey A. Watkins , Giovanni Bordiga , Mingxing Mu , Vincent Tournat , Katia Bertoldi

Despite all the progress of semiconductor integrated circuit technology, the extreme complexity of the human cerebral cortex makes the hardware implementation of neuromorphic networks with a comparable number of devices exceptionally…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Mirko Prezioso , Farnood Merrikh-Bayat , Brian Hoskins , Gina Adam , Konstantin K. Likharev , Dmitri B. Strukov

As the world enters the age of ubiquitous computing, the need for reconfigurable hardware operating close to the fundamental limits of energy consumption becomes increasingly pressing. Simultaneously, scaling-driven performance improvements…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Alexantrou Serb , Ali Khiat , Themis Prodromakis

Human brain processes sensory information in real-time with extraordinary efficiency compared to the possibilities of current artificial computing systems. It operates as a complex nonlinear system, composed of interacting dynamic units -…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Manuel Escudero , Sabina Spiga , Stefano Brivio

The transistor celebrated its 75${}^\text{th}$ birthday in 2022. The continued scaling of the transistor defined by Moore's Law continues, albeit at a slower pace. Meanwhile, computing demands and energy consumption required by modern…

A heat engine is a machine which uses the temperature difference between a hot and a cold reservoir to extract work. Here both reservoirs are quantum systems and a heat engine is described by a unitary transformation which decreases the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dominik Janzing

Traditional studies of memristive devices have mainly focused on their applications in non-volatile information storage and information processing. Here, we demonstrate that the third fundamental component of information technologies { the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-04-26 V. A. Slipko , Y. V. Pershin

In this paper we review recent work on novel computing paradigms using coupled oscillatory dynamical systems. We explore systems of relaxation oscillators based on linear state transitioning devices, which switch between two discrete states…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Abhinav Parihar , Nikhil Shukla , Matthew Jerry , Suman Datta , Arijit Raychowdhury

We report a resistance based threshold logic family useful for mimicking brain like large variable logic functions in VLSI. A universal Boolean logic cell based on an analog resistive divider and threshold logic circuit is presented. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-08-03 A. P. James , L. R. V. J. Francis , D. Kumar

In-memory computing (IMC) is an emerging non-von Neumann paradigm that leverages the intrinsic physics of memory devices to perform computations directly within the memory array. Among the various candidates, phase-change memory (PCM) has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Davide G. F. Lombardo , Siddharth Gautam , Alberto Ferraris , Manuel Le Gallo , Abu Sebastian , Ghazi Sarwat Syed

Smart material implication (SIMPLY) logic has been recently proposed for the design of energy-efficient Logic-in-Memory (LIM) architectures based on non-volatile resistive memory devices. The SIMPLY logic is enabled by adding a comparator…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Raffaele De Rose , Tommaso Zanotti , Francesco Maria Puglisi , Felice Crupi , Paolo Pavan , Marco Lanuzza

We present both an overview and a perspective of recent experimental advances and proposed new approaches to performing computation using memristors. A memristor is a 2-terminal passive component with a dynamic resistance depending on an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Francesco Caravelli , Juan Pablo Carbajal

Thermodynamic RAM (kT-RAM) is a neuromemristive co-processor design based on the theory of AHaH Computing and implemented via CMOS and memristors. The co-processor is a 2-D array of differential memristor pairs (synapses) that can be…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Timothy W. Molter , M. Alexander Nugent

Developing a thermodynamic theory of computation is a challenging task at the interface of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and computer science. In particular, this task requires dealing with difficulties such as stochastic halting times,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-14 Gonzalo Manzano , Gülce Kardeş , Édgar Roldán , David Wolpert