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Many combinatorial optimization problems can be mapped to finding the ground states of the corresponding Ising Hamiltonians. The physical systems that can solve optimization problems in this way, namely Ising machines, have been attracting…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Tianshi Wang , Jaijeet Roychowdhury

Oscillator neural networks (ONN) are a promising hardware option for artificial intelligence. With an abundance of theoretical treatments of ONNs, few experimental implementations exist to date. In contrast to prior publications of only…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-10-28 D. E. Nikonov , P. Kurahashi , J. S. Ayers , H. -J. Lee , Y. Fan , I. A. Young

Many network applications rely on the synchronization of coupled oscillators. For example, such synchronization can provide networked devices with a common temporal reference necessary for coordinating actions or decoding transmitted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Enrique Mallada , Randy A. Freeman , Ao Tang

The synchronization of coupled oscillators is a phenomenon found throughout nature. Mechanical oscillators are paradigmatic among such systems, but realising them at the nanoscale is challenging. We report synchronization of the mechanical…

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 -…

Simulators based on neural networks offer a path to orders-of-magnitude faster electromagnetic wave simulations. Existing models, however, only address narrowly tailored classes of problems and only scale to systems of a few dozen degrees…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-02 Charles Dove , Jatearoon Boondicharern , Laura Waller

We describe the use of quasiperiodic oscillators for computation and control of robots. We also describe their relationship to central pattern generators in simple organisms and develop a group theory for describing the dynamics of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 E. A. Rietman , R. W. Hillis

Neuromorphic Computing implemented in photonic hardware is one of the most promising routes towards achieving machine learning processing at the picosecond scale, with minimum power consumption. In this work, we present a new concept for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-01 K. Sozos , A. Bogris , P. Bienstman , G. Sarantoglou , S. Deligiannidis , C. Mesaritakis

Chronic diseases can greatly benefit from bioelectronic medicine approaches. Neuromorphic electronic circuits present ideal characteristics for the development of brain-inspired low-power implantable processing systems that can be…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Elisa Donati , Renate Krause , Giacomo Indiveri

In the pursuit of scalable and energy-efficient neuromorphic devices, recent research has unveiled a novel category of spiking oscillators, termed "thermal neuristors." These devices function via thermal interactions among neighboring…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-12 Yuan-Hang Zhang , Chesson Sipling , Erbin Qiu , Ivan K. Schuller , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Neuromorphic computing seeks to replicate the remarkable efficiency, flexibility, and adaptability of the human brain in artificial systems. Unlike conventional digital approaches, which suffer from the Von Neumann bottleneck and depend on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Marcel van Gerven

We propose and analyze a nanomechanical architecture where light is used to perform linear quantum operations on a set of many vibrational modes. Suitable amplitude modulation of a single laser beam is shown to generate squeezing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 Michael Schmidt , Max Ludwig , Florian Marquardt

In this work we present a novel implementation of delay line free reservoir computing based on state-of-the-art photonic technologies, which exploits chaotic optical frequency comb formation in optical microresonator as the nonlinear…

Pulse-coupled systems such as spiking neural networks exhibit nontrivial invariant sets in the form of attracting yet unstable saddle periodic orbits where units are synchronized into groups. Heteroclinic connections between such orbits may…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-11-03 Fabio Schittler Neves , Marc Timme

Interest in non-algorithmic, unconventional computing is rising in recent years due to more and more apparent short comings of classic stored-program digital computers, such as energy efficiency, degree of parallelism in computations, clock…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Shrish Roy , Bernd Ulmann

Optomechanical oscillators (OMOs) combine the co-existing high quality factor mechanical and optical resonances in an integrated device to realize low phase noise RF oscillations. While several attempts have been demonstrated towards…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-08 Cijy Mathai , Sunil A. Bhave , Siddharth Tallur

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

Optomechanical systems driven by an effective blue detuned laser can exhibit self-sustained oscillations of the mechanical oscillator. These self-oscillations are a prerequisite for the observation of synchronization. Here, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Ehud Amitai , Niels Lörch , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Stefan Walter , Christoph Bruder

Programmable optical neural networks (ONNs) can offer high-throughput and energy-efficient solutions for accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) computing. However, existing ONN architectures, typically based on cascaded unitary…

Optics is an exciting route for the next generation of computing hardware for machine learning, promising several orders of magnitude enhancement in both computational speed and energy efficiency. However, to reach the full capacity of an…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 James Spall , Xianxin Guo , A. I. Lvovsky