MemComputing vs. Quantum Computing: some analogies and major differences

TL;DR

This paper compares MemComputing and Quantum Computing, highlighting their similarities and key differences, emphasizing MemComputing's practical advantages and its reliance on non-quantum dynamical systems with memory.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of analogies and major differences between MemComputing and Quantum Computing, clarifying their respective mechanisms and potential advantages.

Findings

MemComputing uses non-quantum dynamical systems with memory.

Quantum computing relies on quantum phenomena and faces practical hurdles.

MemComputing can be efficiently emulated in software and has a more straightforward hardware path.

Abstract

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.