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A cryogenic memristor

Tunable anomalous Hall resistive states of magnetic topological insulators are utilized to achieve analogue in-memory computing at cryogenic temperatures.

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Fig. 1: Material systems for memristor technology.

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D.M. and D.R. acknowledge support from the TOPOCOM project, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme Horizon.1.2 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), grant agreement number 101119608.

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Meier, D., Rodrigues, D. A cryogenic memristor. Nat. Mater. 24, 482–483 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02125-w

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