Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 14, April 2026. SignificanceAs modern computing becomes limited by energy consumption, there is growing interest in physical computing paradigms that can operate closer to fundamental thermodynamic limits. Thermodynamic computing is an emerging field in which computation …
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