August 2019 issue of Laser Focus World reports on our Ising machine in a featured article
Researchers have built the largest photonic Ising machine to date – an optical processor for solving difficult optimization problems by modelin interacting spins via a spatially varying light field
Other web and press release on our Ising machine
Le Scienze : la piu’ grande macchina di calcolo con la luce
Repubblica : la macchina che risolve i problemi alla velocita’ della luce
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Check the top-level program here
Special issue of Optics Express and Optics Materials Express
OpEx: http://www.osapublishing.org/oe/journal/oe/feature_announce/no2019.cfm OMEx: http://www.osapublishing.org/ome/journal/ome/feature_announce/no2019.cfm
Toward NLO 2021
NLO 2021 in Maui will be announced soon, stay tuned!
New hardware for solving NP-complete problems is of paramount importance in the modern theory of complexity and computation. In the new era of machine learning and quantum computing, many groups are working for realizing “annealing devices.” Ising machines are a special class that finds the minima of spin-glass Hamiltonians, as Sherrington-Kirkpatrick and Mattis models. Our recent work on a new simple and scalable Ising machine [Phys.Rev.Lett. 122, 213902(2019) and arXiv:1905.11548] has been featured in Physics.
“Photonic Ising Machines Go Big: A new optical processor for solving hard optimization problems breaks previous size records and is based on a highly scalable technology”
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Our project within the Quantum Technologies Flagship has been launched. The topic is quantum simulations of fundamental physical processes, as Bose-Einstein condensation of photons and gravitational physics!
The project involves Sorbonne University, CNRS, Sapienza, UBO, IST, Imperial, CNR and UPDiderot
FET Quantum Technologies Flagship Grant Number 820392
