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We present a novel self-correcting, high-speed optoelectronic probabilistic computer architecture that leverages source-device independent (SDI) quantum photonic p-bits integrated with robust electronic control. Our approach combines the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Ramy Aboushelbaya , Annika Moslein , Hadi Azar , Hamid Tanhaei , Marko von der Leyen

The advancement of information processing into the realm of quantum mechanics promises a transcendence in computational power that will enable problems to be solved which are completely beyond the known abilities of any "classical"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 Parsa Bonderson , Sankar Das Sarma , Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak

Emerging analog computing substrates, such as oscillator-based Ising machines, offer rapid convergence times for combinatorial optimization but often suffer from limited scalability due to physical implementation constraints. To tackle…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ruihong Yin , Yue Zheng , Chaohui Li , Ahmet Efe , Abhimanyu Kumar , Ziqing Zeng , Ulya R. Karpuzcu , Sachin S. Sapatnekar , Chris H. Kim

This paper draws attention to a hardware system which can be engineered so that its intrinsic physics is described by the generalized Ising model and can encode the solution to many important NP-hard problems as its ground state. The basic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 Brian Sutton , Kerem Yunus Camsari , Behtash Behin-Aein , Supriyo Datta

Ising machines based on analog systems have the potential of acceleration in solving ubiquitous combinatorial optimization problems. Although some artificial spins to support large-scale Ising machine is reported, e.g. superconducting…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Qizhuang Cen , Tengfei Hao , Hao Ding , Shanhong Guan , Zhiqiang Qin , Kun Xu , Yitang Dai , Ming Li

True random number generators are of great interest in many computing applications such as cryptography, neuromorphic systems and Monte Carlo simulations. Here we investigate perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction nanopillars (pMTJs)…

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

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…

Invertible logic can operate in one of two modes: 1) a forward mode, in which inputs are presented and a single, correct output is produced, and 2) a reverse mode, in which the output is fixed and the inputs take on values consistent with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sean C. Smithson , Naoya Onizawa , Brett H. Meyer , Warren J. Gross , Takahiro Hanyu

The spatial photonic Ising machine (SPIM) [D. Pierangeli et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 213902 (2019)] is a promising optical architecture utilizing spatial light modulation for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-09 Hiroshi Yamashita , Ken-ichi Okubo , Suguru Shimomura , Yusuke Ogura , Jun Tanida , Hideyuki Suzuki

Four decades after Richard Feynman's famous remark, we have reached a stage at which nature can be simulated quantum mechanically. Quantum simulation is among the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, like many quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Mahmood Hasani , Hadis Salasi , Negar Ashari Astani

Ising solvers offer a promising physics-based approach to tackle the challenging class of combinatorial optimization problems. However, typical solvers operate in a quadratic energy space, having only pair-wise coupling elements which…

We propose a post-processing variationally scheduled quantum algorithm (pVSQA) for solving constrained combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). COPs are typically transformed into ground-state search problems of the Ising model on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Tatsuhiko Shirai , Nozomu Togawa

Specialized function gradient computing hardware could greatly improve the performance of state-of-the-art optimization algorithms, e.g., based on gradient descent or conjugate gradient methods that are at the core of control, machine…

Oscillator-based Ising machines (OIMs) and oscillator-based Potts machines (OPMs) have emerged as promising hardware accelerators for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems by leveraging the phase dynamics of coupled…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yilmaz Ege Gonul , Ceyhun Efe Kayan , Ilknur Mustafazade , Nagarajan Kandasamy , Baris Taskin

In this work, we present a heretofore unseen application of Ising machines to perform trust region-based optimisation with box constraints. This is done by considering a specific form of opto-electronic oscillator-based coherent Ising…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Sayantan Pramanik , Kaumudibikash Goswami , Sourav Chatterjee , M Girish Chandra

The search of hardware-compatible strategies for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) is an important challenge of today s computing research because of their wide range of applications in real world optimization…

Ising machines (IM) have recently been proposed as unconventional hardware-based computation accelerators for solving NP-hard problems. In this work, we present a model for a time-multiplexed IM based on the nonlinear oscillations in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Roman V. Ovcharov , Victor H. González , Artem Litvinenko , Johan Åkerman , Roman S. Khymyn

Recently, nature-inspired computing approaches have gained significant attention for solving difficult optimization problems, particularly through Ising machines for NP-complete applications. Existing Ising accelerators range from quantum…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Lizy K. John , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni

The Ising model is of prime importance in the field of statistical mechanics. Here we show that Ising-type interactions can be realized in periodically-driven circuits of stochastic binary resistors with memory. A key feature of our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 V. J. Dowling , Y. V. Pershin