A fully programmable 100-spin coherent Ising machine with all-to-all connections
- PMID: 27811274
- DOI: 10.1126/science.aah5178
A fully programmable 100-spin coherent Ising machine with all-to-all connections
Abstract
Unconventional, special-purpose machines may aid in accelerating the solution of some of the hardest problems in computing, such as large-scale combinatorial optimizations, by exploiting different operating mechanisms than those of standard digital computers. We present a scalable optical processor with electronic feedback that can be realized at large scale with room-temperature technology. Our prototype machine is able to find exact solutions of, or sample good approximate solutions to, a variety of hard instances of Ising problems with up to 100 spins and 10,000 spin-spin connections.
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