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Perovskite neural trees
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Perovskite neural trees

Hai-Tian Zhang, Tae Joon Park, Ivan A Zaluzhnyy, Qi Wang, Shakti Nagnath Wadekar, Sukriti Manna, Robert Andrawis, Peter O Sprau, Yifei Sun, Zhen Zhang, …
Nature communications, Vol.11(1), pp.2245-2245
05/07/2020
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16105-y
PMCID: PMC7206050
PMID: 32382036
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16105-yView
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Abstract

Trees are used by animals, humans and machines to classify information and make decisions. Natural tree structures displayed by synapses of the brain involves potentiation and depression capable of branching and is essential for survival and learning. Demonstration of such features in synthetic matter is challenging due to the need to host a complex energy landscape capable of learning, memory and electrical interrogation. We report experimental realization of tree-like conductance states at room temperature in strongly correlated perovskite nickelates by modulating proton distribution under high speed electric pulses. This demonstration represents physical realization of ultrametric trees, a concept from number theory applied to the study of spin glasses in physics that inspired early neural network theory dating almost forty years ago. We apply the tree-like memory features in spiking neural networks to demonstrate high fidelity object recognition, and in future can open new directions for neuromorphic computing and artificial intelligence. Designing energy efficient and scalable artificial networks for neuromorphic computing remains a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate tree-like conductance states at room temperature in strongly correlated perovskite nickelates by modulating proton distribution under high speed electric pulses.
Electronics, photonics and device physics Materials for devices

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