[ThF1] Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Photonics

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[ThF1-2] Oscillator-less Photonic Ising Machine with Digital-nonlinearity-based Bifurcation and Its Simulated Application to a 1 Million-node Fully Connected Max-cut Problem

○Masataka Nakazawa¹, Toshihiko Hirooka¹ (1. Tohoku University (Japan))

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Ising machines and building blocks

We propose a large-scale photonic Ising machine (PIM) employing ultrafast pulse propagation in 50-km recirculating loss-less fiber loop and digital feedback nonlinearity without pulse oscillation. A 10⁶-node max-cut problem is solved with the PIM software.