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Designing metamaterials that carry out advanced computations poses a significant challenge. A powerful design strategy splits the problem into two steps: First, encoding the desired functionality in a discrete or tight-binding model, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Sima Zahedi Fard , Paolo Tiso , Parisa Omidvar , Marc Serra-Garcia

The spectra of silicon integrated waveguides are tailored to process analog computing (i.e.,differential and integral) in optical domain with huge bandwidth.With the theory of signal and system, we design some silicon integrated devices to…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-10 Jianji Dong , Ting Yang , Aoleng Zheng , Xinliang Zhang

Performing computational tasks with wave-based devices is becoming a groundbreaking paradigm that can open new opportunities for the next generation of efficient analogue and digital computing systems. Decision-making processes for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Ross Glyn MacDonald , Alex Yakovlev , Victor Pacheco-Peña

Various wireless sensor network applications involve the computation of a pre-defined function of the measurements without the need for reconstructing each individual sensor reading. Widely-considered examples of such functions include the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Mario Goldenbaum , Sławomir Stańczak

Electromagnetic wave-based computing has emerged as an exciting paradigm with the potential to enable high-speed, parallel operations. In conventional computing, elementary logic gates, such as AND, OR, NOT and XOR, form the building blocks…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ross Glyn MacDonald , Alex Yakovlev , Victor Pacheco-Peña

For most acoustic metamaterials, once they have been fabricated, their operating frequencies and functions cannot be adjusted, which is an intrinsic barrier for development of realistic applications. The study to overcome this limit has…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xiang Xiao , Hongxing Tian , Yingzhou Huang , Xiaoxiao Wu , Weijia Wen

Space-time modulated metamaterials support extraordinary rich applications, such as parametric amplification, frequency conversion and non-reciprocal transmission. However, experimental realization of space-time modulation is highly…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Xinhua Wen , Xinghong Zhu , Alvin Fan , Wing Yim Tam , Jie Zhu , Fabrice Lemoult , Mathias Fink , Jensen Li

In passive linear systems, complete combining of powers carried by waves from several input channels into a single output channel is forbidden by the energy conservation law. Here, we demonstrate that complete combination of both coherent…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-01 Xuchen Wang , Viktar S. Asadchy , Shanhui Fan , Sergei. A. Tretyakov

Reservoir computing is an information processing technique, derived from the theory of neural networks, which is easy to implement in hardware. Several reservoir computer hardware implementations have been realized recently with performance…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-06-13 François Duport , Akram Akrout , Anteo Smerieri , Marc Haelterman , Serge Massar

The present von Neumann computing paradigm involves a significant amount of information transfer between a central processing unit (CPU) and memory, with concomitant limitations in the actual execution speed. However, it has been recently…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Fabio Lorenzo Traversa , Fabrizio Bonani , Yuriy V. Pershin , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The rapidly increasing demands for computational throughput, bandwidth, and memory capacity fueled by breakthroughs in machine learning pose substantial challenges for conventional electronic computing platforms. For digital scaling to keep…

Modulation of metasurfaces in time gives rise to several exotic space-time scattering phenomena by violating the reciprocity and generation of higher-order frequency harmonics. We introduce a new design paradigm for time-modulated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Mohammad Mahdi Salary , Samad Jafar-Zanjani , Hossein Mosallaei

The original Pascaline was a mechanical calculator able to sum and subtract integers. It encodes information in the angles of mechanical wheels and through a set of gears, and aided by gravity, could perform the calculations. Here, we show…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Y. V. Pershin , L. K. Castelano , F. Hartmann , V. Lopez-Richard , M. Di Ventra

Computational methods are the most effective tools we have besides scientific experiments to explore the properties of complex biological systems. Progress is slowing because digital silicon computers have reached their limits in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Viv Kendon

The ever increasing challenges introduced by the diversity of current and envisioned network technologies and IT infrastructure draw a highly distributed and heterogeneous topology where innovative services must be optimally deployed to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xavi Masip-Bruin , Jordi Garcia , Adrian Asensio , Francesco DAndria , Admela Jukan , Shahrok Daijavad , Panos Trakadas

As neural computation is revolutionizing the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), rethinking the ideal neural hardware is becoming the next frontier. Fast and reliable von Neumann architecture has been the hosting platform for neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yigit Demirag

Space-time metamaterials are redefining wave engineering by enabling fully dynamic four-dimensional control of electromagnetic fields, allowing simultaneous manipulation of frequency, amplitude, momentum, and propagation direction. This…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-26 Sajjad Taravati

Metamaterials are a new generation of advanced materials, exhibiting engineered microstructures that enable customized material properties not found in nature. The dynamics of metamaterials are particularly fascinating, promising the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Charles Dorn , Vignesh Kannan , Ute Drechsler , Dennis M. Kochmann

Over the past decade, the usefulness of quantum annealing hardware for combinatorial optimization has been the subject of much debate. Thus far, experimental benchmarking studies have indicated that quantum annealing hardware does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Byron Tasseff , Tameem Albash , Zachary Morrell , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov , Sidhant Misra , Carleton Coffrin

The present work attempts both a review of previous methods for transferring digital and symbolic computations in an analog or optical substrate and also to offer certain alternatives not yet fully explored. The essential difference from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 T. E. Raptis