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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 34: Magnetic textures: Transport and dynamics II
MA 34.1: Invited Talk
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 15:00–15:30, H37
Reservoir Computing with Random Skyrmion Fabrics — •Daniele Pinna1, George Bourianoff2, and Karin Everschor-Sitte1 — 1Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Institute of Physics TWIST Group Staudingerweg 7 D 55128 Mainz — 2Intel Corp., retired
In this talk we will discuss how a random skyrmion ``fabric'' composed of skyrmion clusters embedded in a magnetic substrate can be effectively employed to implement a functional Reservoir Computing device for recognizing and predicting spatio-temporal events. This is achieved by leveraging the nonlinear resistive response of the individual skyrmions arising from their current dependent anisotropic magneto-resistance effect (AMR). Complex time-varying current signals injected via contacts into the magnetic substrate are shown to be modulated nonlinearly by the fabric's AMR due to the current distribution following paths of least resistance as it traverses the geometry. By tracking resistances across multiple input and output contacts, we show how the instantaneous current distribution effectively carries temporally correlated information about the injected signal. This in turn allows us to numerically demonstrate simple pattern recognition. We argue that the fundamental ingredients for such a device to work are threefold: i) Concurrent probing of the magnetic state; ii) stable ground state when forcings are removed; iii) nonlinear response to input forcing. Whereas we demonstrate this by employing skyrmion fabrics, the basic ingredients should be general enough to spur the interest of the greater magnetism and magnetic materials community to explore novel reservoir computing systems.