Towards energy efficient magnetic in materio computing

Karin Everschor-Sitte, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Fig. 1: Artistic view superimposing the spatially resolved non-linearity and memory measure of a skyrmion fabrics.

Novel computational paradigms in combination with proper hardware solutions are required to overcome the limitations of our state-of-the-art computer technology [1-3]. In this talk, I will focus on the potential of magnetic textures for energy efficient reservoir computing. Reservoir computing is a computational scheme that allows to drastically simplify spatial-temporal recognition tasks. We have shown that random skyrmion fabrics provide a suitable physical implementation of the reservoir [4,5] and allow to classify patterns via their complex resistance responses either by tracing the signal over time or by a single spatially resolved measurement [6]. Efficient task agnostic metrics benchmarking the reservoir’s key features – non-linearity, complexity and fading memory – drastically speed up the parameter search to design efficient and high-performance reservoirs [7].

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