Ising machines as hardware solvers of combinatorial optimization problems

N Mohseni, PL McMahon, T Byrnes - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithms

K Bharti, A Cervera-Lierta, TH Kyaw, T Haug… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
A universal fault-tolerant quantum computer that can efficiently solve problems such as
integer factorization and unstructured database search requires millions of qubits with low …

Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate

M Yu, D Barton III, R Cheng, C Reimer, P Kharel, L He… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Integrated femtosecond pulse and frequency comb sources are critical components for a
wide range of applications, including optical atomic clocks, microwave photonics …

2022 roadmap on neuromorphic computing and engineering

DV Christensen, R Dittmann… - Neuromorphic …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Modern computation based on von Neumann architecture is now a mature cutting-edge
science. In the von Neumann architecture, processing and memory units are implemented …

Photonics for artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing

BJ Shastri, AN Tait, T Ferreira de Lima, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Research in photonic computing has flourished due to the proliferation of optoelectronic
components on photonic integration platforms. Photonic integrated circuits have enabled …

Large-scale neuromorphic optoelectronic computing with a reconfigurable diffractive processing unit

T Zhou, X Lin, J Wu, Y Chen, H **e, Y Li, J Fan, H Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
There is an ever-growing demand for artificial intelligence. Optical processors, which
compute with photons instead of electrons, can fundamentally accelerate the development …

100,000-spin coherent Ising machine

T Honjo, T Sonobe, K Inaba, T Inagaki, T Ikuta… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Computers based on physical systems are increasingly anticipated to overcome the
impending limitations on digital computer performance. One such computer is a coherent …

Combinatorial optimization with physics-inspired graph neural networks

MJA Schuetz, JK Brubaker… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Combinatorial optimization problems are pervasive across science and industry. Modern
deep learning tools are poised to solve these problems at unprecedented scales, but a …

An optical neural network using less than 1 photon per multiplication

T Wang, SY Ma, LG Wright, T Onodera… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep learning has become a widespread tool in both science and industry. However,
continued progress is hampered by the rapid growth in energy costs of ever-larger deep …

Quantum approximate optimization algorithm: Performance, mechanism, and implementation on near-term devices

L Zhou, ST Wang, S Choi, H Pichler, MD Lukin - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid quantum-classical
variational algorithm designed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems. Despite its …