With demands for ever more powerful computing devices, researchers are pushing at the limits of physics to explore alternatives to conventional computing, such as with photonics, quantum simulators, and spintronics.
“Quantum materials hold great promise for improving the capacities of today’s computers,” said Professor Andrew Kent, a senior investigator. “The work draws upon their properties in establishing a new structure for computation.”
Kent worked alongside collaborators from the University of California-San Diego and the University of Paris-Saclay on the project. Professor Ivan Schuller, a San Diego physicist, explained: “Since conventional computing has reached its limits, new computational methods and devices are being developed. These have the potential of revolutionising computing and in ways that may one day rival the human brain.”
The physicists built on work in neuromorphic computing, a field of computing which seeks to mimic the human brain...