Charlot × Hiner · energy-native compute

The reproducibility you can afford

Collapse the crossings between the energy source and the compute state and efficiency climbs — but the computation inherits the raw noise of its carrier. You can buy reproducibility back without paying a conversion crossing: let the substrate's own dissipation settle into attractor basins, and commit the basin label, not the microstate. The barrier height you must spend to reject a given supply noise is a Landauer-analog — a thermodynamic price on a reproducible bit.

Energy efficiency

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Supply noise σ

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Label invariance

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Bits / device

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Free-energy landscape — an ensemble settles into basins · committed label = the basin the ensemble holds

The crossings spectrum — S0 separated → S5 identity

Landauer-analog for reproducibility

Crossings collapsed — Barrier ΔE — Supply noise σ —

The tension in one line: reversible substrates dissipate least but build no basins, so they preserve noise; the basins that reject supply noise for free are made by dissipation, just above the Landauer floor. Illustrative model — the signs and the floor are the point, not the units.