Paper ID: 2410.12211

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 the computer an additional source of noise. The resulting thermodynamic computer program is equivalent to the original computer program, but runs at a higher clock speed. This approach offers a way of increasing the speed of thermodynamic computing while preserving the fidelity of computation.

Submitted: Oct 16, 2024