Maxwell Aifer, Zach Belateche, Suraj Bramhavar, Kerem Y. Camsari, Patrick J. Coles, Gavin Crooks, Douglas J. Durian, Andrea J. Liu, Anastasia Marchenkova, Antonio J. Martinez, Peter L. McMahon, Faris Sbahi, Benjamin Weiner, Logan G. Wright
arXiv:2507.10463
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.
Communications of the ACM article on thermodynamic computing and Normal Computing.
