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Ising machines are physical platforms designed to minimize the energy of classical Ising Hamiltonians, yet accessing specific excited states remains an open challenge of both fundamental and practical relevance. In this letter we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jacopo Tosca , Cristiano Ciuti , Claudio Conti , Marcello Calvanese Strinati

Coupled parametric oscillators were recently employed as simulators of artificial Ising networks, with the potential to solve computationally hard minimization problems. We demonstrate a new dynamical regime within the simplest network -…

Many combinatorial problems can be mapped to Ising machines, i.e., networks of coupled oscillators that settle to a minimum-energy ground state, from which the problem solution is inferred. This work proposes DROID, a novel event-driven…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Abhimanyu Kumar , Ramprasath S. , Chris H. Kim , Ulya R. Karpuzcu , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

Nonlinear dynamical systems such as coupled oscillators are being actively investigated as Ising machines for solving computationally hard problems in combinatorial optimization. Prior works have established the equivalence between the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Mohammad Khairul Bashar , Zongli Lin , Nikhil Shukla

Ising Machines are emerging hardware architectures that efficiently solve NP-Hard combinatorial optimization problems. Generally, combinatorial problems are transformed into quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) form, but this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chirag Garg , Sayeef Salahuddin

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 well-posedness of a class of optimal control problems is analysed, where the state equation couples a nonlinear degenerate Fokker-Planck equation with a system of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). Such problems naturally arise as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Francesca Anceschi , Giacomo Ascione , Daniele Castorina , Francesco Solombrino

In distributed model predictive control (DMPC), where a centralized optimization problem is solved in distributed fashion using dual decomposition, it is important to keep the number of iterations in the solution algorithm, i.e. the amount…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Pontus Giselsson , Anders Rantzer

The Ising model is well-known for illustrating the fundamental characteristics of phase transitions in closed systems. In this article, we propose a generalization of the two-dimensional Ising model to open systems, considering the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-11 Andriy Gusak , Serhii Abakumov

A coherent Ising machine (CIM) is a network of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), in which the "strongest" collective mode of oscillation at well above threshold corresponds to an optimum solution of a given Ising problem. When a pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Y. Yamamoto , T. Leleu , S. Ganguli , H. Mabuchi

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

We present a framework for distributed Pose Graph Optimization (PGO) by formulating the problem as a second-order continuous-time dynamical system evolving on Lie groups. By modeling pose variables as massive particles subject to damping,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jaeho Shin , Maani Ghaffari , Yulun Tian

Systems with nonreciprocal interactions generically display time-dependent states. These are routinely observed in finite systems, from neuroscience to active matter, in which globally ordered oscillations exist. However, the stability of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , David Martin , Daniel Seara , Vincenzo Vitelli

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems with optimal stopping by establishing a density-based deterministic representation of the underlying diffusion. For state-independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Akan Selim , Siddhartha Ganguly , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Networks of coupled Kerr parametric oscillators (KPOs) are a leading physical platform for analog solving of complex optimization problems. These systems are colloquially known as ``Ising machines''. We experimentally and theoretically…

Periodically driven parametric oscillators offer a convenient way to simulate classical Ising spins. When many parametric oscillators are coupled dissipatively, they can be analogous to networks of Ising spins, forming an effective coherent…

Dynamical Ising machines achieve accelerated solving of complex combinatorial optimization problems by remapping the convergence to the ground state of the classical spin networks to the evolution of specially constructed continuous…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Aditya Shukla , Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder

The massive integration of distributed energy resources changes the operational demands of the electric power distribution system, motivating optimization-based approaches. The added computational complexities of the resulting optimal power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Yunqi Luo , Rabayet Sadnan , Bala Krishnamoorthy , Anamika Dubey

Networks of coupled nonlinear oscillators can display a wide range of emergent behaviours under variation of the strength of the coupling. Network equations for pairs of coupled oscillators where the dynamics of each node is described by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Rachel Nicks , Robert Allen , Stephen Coombes

We investigate the performance of the recently proposed stationary Fokker-Planck sampling method considering a combinatorial optimization problem from statistical physics. The algorithmic procedure relies upon the numerical solution of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Melchert , A. K. Hartmann