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The thermodynamic freedom of a thermodynamic computer
Stephen Whitelam
Thermodynamic computers are stochastic physical devices designed to perform calculations at the thermal energy scale. Their operation is constrained by the equations of stochastic…
Evolutionary design of thermodynamic logic gates and their heat emission
Stephen Whitelam
Landauer's principle bounds the heat generated by logical operations, but in practice the thermodynamic cost of computation is dominated by the control systems that implement logic…
Training thermodynamic computers by gradient descent
Stephen Whitelam
We show how to adjust the parameters of a thermodynamic computer by gradient descent in order to perform a desired computation at a specified observation time. Within a digital sim…
Generative thermodynamic computing
Stephen Whitelam
We introduce a generative modeling framework for thermodynamic computing, in which structured data is synthesized from noise by the natural time evolution of a physical system gove…
Increasing the clock speed of a thermodynamic computer by adding noise
Stephen Whitelam
We describe a proposal for increasing the effective clock speed of a thermodynamic computer, by altering the interaction scale of the units within the computer and introducing to t…
Neural units with time-dependent functionality
Stephen Whitelam
We show that the time-resolved dynamics of an underdamped harmonic oscillator can be used to do multifunctional computation, performing distinct computations at distinct times with…