Chase Broedersz and Pierre Ronceray wrote a great retrospective on the Jarzynski equality for Nature Reviews Physics, celebrating the 25th anniversary. But I’ve gotta dispute the final sentence: “Rarely has a breakthrough discovery been so clearly evident at the time of its publication.” It took almost a year to get the paper past the referees!
Amica Conference: Thermodynamic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence. March 9-11, 2026, Karuizawa, Japan.
Notes on the circuit model of quantum computing. Currently mostly an exposition on the menagerie of quantum gates.
We show that natural gradient descent can have a similar computational complexity per iteration to a first-order method, when employing appropriate hardware.
Physics-based Application-Specific Integrated Circuits present a transformative paradigm by directly harnessing intrinsic physical dynamics for computation.
