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The increasing resource demands of artificial neural networks have prompted the exploration of novel platforms better suited for machine learning. In this context, phase oscillators represent a promising candidate due to their intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Andrea Gaspari , Rémi Avriller , Florian Marquardt , Fabio Pistolesi

Ising machines are an emerging class of hardware that promises ultrafast and energy-efficient solutions to NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. Spatial photonic Ising machines (SPIMs) exploit optical computing in free space to…

Oscillator-based Ising/Potts machines (OIMs/OPMs) are promising hardware accelerators for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems using coupled oscillator synchronization dynamics. Analog OIMs/OPMs offer speed advantages but have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yilmaz Ege Gonul , Baris Taskin

We propose a novel and systematic method for coarse-graining oscillator networks described by phase equations. Our coarse-graining method enables us to obtain the closed coarse-grained equations for a few effective eigenmodes, which is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-11-06 Yuki Izumida , Hiroshi Kori

The last couple of years have seen an ever-increasing interest in using different Ising solvers, like Quantum annealers, Coherent Ising machines, and Oscillator-based Ising machines, for solving tough computational problems in various…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Abhishek Kumar Singh , Kyle Jamieson

In this work, we experimentally demonstrate an integrated circuit (IC) of 30 relaxation oscillators with reconfigurable capacitive coupling to solve the NP-Hard Maximum Cut (Max-Cut) problem. We show that under the influence of an external…

Many combinatorial optimization problems fall into the non-polynomial time NP-hard complexity class, characterized by computational demands that increase exponentially with the size of the problem in the worst case. Solving large-scale…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Jonas Olivier Brown , Taosha Guo , Fabio Pasqualetti , Alexander A. Balandin

Optical computing often employs tailor-made hardware to implement specific algorithms, trading generality for improved performance in key aspects like speed and power efficiency. An important computing approach that is still missing its…

Spiking neural network is a kind of neuromorphic computing that is believed to improve the level of intelligence and provide advantages for quantum computing. In this work, we address this issue by designing an optical spiking neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Bo Lu , Yong-Pan Gao , Kai Wen , Chuan Wang

Ising machines are purported to be better at solving large-scale combinatorial optimisation problems better than conventional von Neumann computers. However, these Ising machines are widely believed to be heuristics, whose promise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Sayantan Pramanik , Sourav Chatterjee , Harshkumar Oza

This paper investigates the state estimation problem for a class of complex networks, in which the dynamics of each node is subject to Gaussian noise, system uncertainties and nonlinearities. Based on a regularized least-squares approach,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Peihu Duan , Qishao Wang , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

We contribute to the mathematical theory of the design of low temperature Ising machines, a type of experimental probabilistic computing device implementing the Ising model. Encoding the output of a function in the ground state of a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Andrew G. Moore , Zachary Richey , Isaac K. Martin

Efficiently optimizing Nondeterministic Polynomial time (NP) problems in polynomial time has profound implications in many domains. CMOS oscillator networks have been shown to be effective and efficient in approximating certain NP-hard…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wenxiao Cai , Zongru Li , Yu-Neng Wang , Sara Achour , Thomas H. Lee

Combinatorial optimization problems are computationally hard in general, but they are ubiquitous in our modern life. A coherent Ising machine (CIM) based on a multiple-pulse degenerate optical parametric oscillator (DOPO) is an alternative…

The quantum theory of coherent Ising machines, based on degenerate optical parametric oscillators and measurement-feedback circuits, is developed using the positive $P({\alpha},{\beta})$ representation of the density operator and the master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Taime Shoji , Kazuyuki Aihara , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

The oscillator-based Ising machine (OIM) is a network of coupled CMOS oscillators that solves combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, the distribution of the injection-locking oscillations throughout the circuit is proposed to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-17 M. Ali Vosoughi

Ising Machines (IMs) are physical systems designed to find solutions to combinatorial optimization (CO) problems mapped onto the IM via the coupling strengths of its binary spins. Using the intrinsic dynamics and different annealing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Afshin Houshang , Mohammad Zahedinejad , Shreyas Muralidhar , Jakub Checinski , Ahmad A. Awad , Johan Åkerman

Ising machines are dedicated hardware solvers of NP-hard optimization problems. However, they do not always find the most optimal solution. The probability of finding this optimal solution depends on the problem at hand. Using continuation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-10 Jacob Lamers , Guy Verschaffelt , Guy Van der Sande

Ising machines show promise as ultrafast hardware for optimizations encoded in Ising Hamiltonians but fall short in terms of success rate and performance scaling. Here, we propose a novel Ising machine that exploits the three-dimensional…

Networks of coupled parametric resonators (parametrons) hold promise for parallel computing architectures. En route to realizing complex networks, we report an experimental and theoretical analysis of two coupled parametrons. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Toni L. Heugel , Oded Zilberberg , Christian Marty , R. Chitra , Alexander Eichler