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Optical polarization for ultrafast computing

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ultrafast computing Computing impacts every aspect of modern science and society. Von-Neumann computers are inefficient in addressing important combinatorial optimizations widespread from networks to artificial intelligence. Finding alternative paradigms to tackle these intractable problems is now vital as digital hardware approaches its ultimate performance limit. A promising strategy maps the optimization in spin models implemented on a physical setup that evolves as a spin system to the solution. This fascinating scheme has recently attracted huge interest, leading to various electronic and optical Ising machines that, however, remain challenging to scale and speed up. LOOP is an experimental proposal that aims at creating ultrafast optical hardware for combinatorial optimization by exploiting the polarization of light. The optical polarization is a new ingredient in computing that is absent in electronics. The original idea is to use the polarization as an ultrafast nonlinear oscillator that encodes the spin. We demonstrate the concept by controlling polarization bifurcation in

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