Ising machines are hardware solvers that aim to find the absolute or approximate ground
states of the Ising model. The Ising model is of fundamental computational interest because …

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in quantum communication and quantum
internet with the emerging quantum photonic chips, whose characteristics of scalability …

Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

In the context of quantum technologies, the generation and manipulation of single photons
has become a key element for applications such as quantum communication and quantum …

Abstract The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a highly promising
variational quantum algorithm that aims to solve combinatorial optimization problems that …

Growing interest in quantum computing for practical applications has led to a surge in the
availability of programmable machines for executing quantum algorithms,. Present-day …

Integrated photonics has profoundly affected a wide range of technologies underpinning
modern society,,–. The ability to fabricate a complete optical system on a chip offers …

The growing maturity of integrated photonic technology makes it possible to build
increasingly large and complex photonic circuits on the surface of a chip. Today, most of …

Quantum technologies comprise an emerging class of devices capable of controlling
superposition and entanglement of quantum states of light or matter, to realize fundamental …

Quantum computing (QC) is an emerging paradigm with the potential to offer significant
computational advantage over conventional classical computing by exploiting quantum …