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ArticleScience advances2019

Avalanches and criticality in self-organized nanoscale networks.

J B Mallinson, S Shirai, S K Acharya, S K Bose, E Galli, S A Brown

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Article in Science advances, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

J B MallinsonThe MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0001-6611-245X
S ShiraiThe MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-4125-6195
S K AcharyaThe MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-1912-2521
S K BoseThe MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0001-8848-5097
E GalliThe MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-2356-2837
S A BrownThe MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-6041-4331

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current efforts to achieve neuromorphic computation are focused on highly organized architectures, such as integrated circuits and regular arrays of memristors, which lack the complex interconnectivity of the brain and so are unable to exhibit brain-like dynamics. New architectures are required, both to emulate the complexity of the brain and to achieve critical dynamics and consequent maximal computational performance. We show here that electrical signals from self-organized networks of nanoparticles exhibit brain-like spatiotemporal correlations and criticality when fabricated at a percolating phase transition. Specifically, the sizes and durations of avalanches of switching events are power law distributed, and the power law exponents satisfy rigorous criteria for criticality. These signals are therefore qualitatively and quantitatively similar to those measured in the cortex. Our self-organized networks provide a low-cost platform for computational approaches that rely on spatiotemporal correlations, such as reservoir computing, and are an important step toward creating neuromorphic device architectures.

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PMCPMC6824861

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