2022/03/22 by Massimiliano Di Ventra, Di Ventra, Massimiliano
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Mechanics and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.12031
openalex publication_date 2022/03/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Quantum computing employs some quantum phenomena to process information. It has been hailed as the future of computing but it is plagued by serious hurdles when it comes to its practical realization. MemComputing is a new paradigm that instead employs non-quantum dynamical systems and exploits time non-locality (memory) to compute. It can be efficiently emulated in software and its path towards hardware is more straightforward. I will discuss some analogies between these two computing paradigms, and the major differences that set them apart.