Thermodynamic computing swish gadget

Abstract

An analog Swish gadget is implemented using one or more thermodynamic chips (neuro-thermodynamic processors). The analog Swish gadget takes a thermodynamic input and calculates a result of the Swish function thermodynamically according to an engineered potential used for oscillators and oscillator couplings for a set of oscillators that implement the analog Swish gadget. The analog Swish gadget returns the result of the Swish function as a thermodynamic output that may be relayed to other energy-based models of a thermodynamic computer. The input, processing, and output are all performed thermodynamically (e.g., in an analog fashion) without a need to convert the information into a classical representation (e.g., a classical representation such as information stored in memory of a classical computing device).

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