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The optical Ising machine

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A network of optical parametric oscillators has been harnessed to find solutions to a complex problem in statistical physics that is difficult to solve using numerical computing algorithms.

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Figure 1: The loss of the optical parametric oscillator (OPO) network (blue line) for each spin configuration (top).

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Fabre, C. The optical Ising machine. Nature Photon 8, 883–884 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.292

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