Photonic Integrated-Based Memristor Gives AI Applicability in Quantum Computing

By developing a photonic quantum memristor, researchers at the University of Vienna, the National Research Council (CNR), and the Polytechnic University of Milan may have found a way to link artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. The researchers engineered a device that works the same as a memristor, while encoding and transmitting quantum information and acting on quantum states. Memristive devices are electrical components that change their resistance depending on the memory of the previous electrical current flowing through them. They are used in neuromorphic architectures such as neural networks because their behavior is similar to that of a neural synapse. Abstract representation of a neural network that is made...