Single-Electron Information-Processing Circuit Inspired by Principles of Molecular Computing

We propose a new single-electron (SE) circuit inspired by the principles of molecular computing. SE circuits can control individual electrons and have features such as stochastic operation and nonlinearity. However, an optimal information processing method has not been established yet. In contrast, molecular computing is being studied as an information-processing method using molecular reactions
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. In the referenced molecular computing theory, the problem is solved by mapping the concentration of molecules to initial and steady states, the reaction rate of molecules to state transition probabilities, and for each state to the type of molecule (Fig. 1). By mapping the behavior exhibited by SE circuits to this model, we believe that a new SE information-processing circuit can be realized.