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20182026
most citedDeep physical neural networks enabled by a backpropagation algorithm for arbitrary physical systems

747 citations · 1.9k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

physics.optics2026

Lithography-free in situ photonic inverse design

Yiqi Zhao, Martin M. Stein, Fan O. Wu +6

Inverse design has emerged as a powerful engineering approach in nanophotonics, leading to devices with unintuitive designs that extend beyond human intuition. However, inverse-des…

physics.optics2026

Programmable nonlinearity within nanophotonic waveguides

Benjamin A. Ash, Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Mandar M. Sohoni +8

Nonlinear nanophotonics enables the engineering of optical functions using light-matter interactions in nanoscale structures with carefully designed geometries. Phase matching in n…

cs.LG2026

Physical Foundation Models: Fixed hardware implementations of large-scale neural networks

Logan G Wright, Tianyu Wang, Tatsuhiro Onodera +1

Foundation models are deep neural networks (such as GPT-5, Gemini~3, and Opus~4) trained on large datasets that can perform diverse downstream tasks -- text and code generation, qu…

physics.optics2026

TRON: Trainable, architecture-reconfigurable random optical neural networks

Ziao Wang, Fei Xia, Logan G. Wright +5

Deep learning has triggered explosive growth in the demand for specialized hardware processors, thus motivating the development of scalable and reconfigurable computing substrates.…

cs.CV2026

Ultra-low-light computer vision using trained photon correlations

Mandar M. Sohoni, Jérémie Laydevant, Mathieu Ouellet +7

Illumination using correlated photon sources has been established as an approach to allowing high-fidelity images to be reconstructed from noisy camera frames by taking advantage o…

quant-ph2025

Large-scale quantum reservoir computing using a Gaussian Boson Sampler

Valeria Cimini, Mandar M. Sohoni, Federico Presutti +7

A Gaussian boson sampler (GBS) is a special-purpose quantum computer that can be practically realized at large scale in optics. Here we report on experiments in which we used a fre…

physics.optics2025★ 21 cited

Programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Benjamin A. Ash, Mandar M. Sohoni +7

Nonlinear photonics uses coherent interactions between optical waves to engineer functionality that is not possible with purely linear optics. Traditionally, the function of a nonl…

physics.app-ph2024★ 4 cited

Training of Physical Neural Networks

Ali Momeni, Babak Rahmani, Benjamin Scellier +25

Physical neural networks (PNNs) are a class of neural-like networks that leverage the properties of physical systems to perform computation. While PNNs are so far a niche research…

physics.optics2024★ 7 cited

Arbitrary control over multimode wave propagation for machine learning

Tatsuhiro Onodera, Martin M. Stein, Benjamin A. Ash +10

Controlled multimode wave propagation can enable more space-efficient photonic processors than architectures based on discrete components connected by single-mode waveguides. Inste…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Tunable spectral correlations of highly multimode visible light via broadband quantum frequency conversion

Federico Presutti, Logan G. Wright, Shi-Yuan Ma +4

Multimode squeezed states of light are a resource for achieving quantum advantage in computing and sensing, where spatial or temporal modes have been the experimental norm. In our…

quant-ph2023★ 27 cited

Microwave signal processing using an analog quantum reservoir computer

Alen Senanian, Sridhar Prabhu, Vladimir Kremenetski +8

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) has been proposed as a paradigm for performing machine learning with quantum processors where the training is efficient in the number of required…

quant-ph2023★ 22 cited

Mesoscopic ultrafast nonlinear optics -- The emergence of multimode quantum non-Gaussian physics

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Marc Jankowski +8

Over the last few decades, nonlinear optics has become significantly more nonlinear, traversing nearly a billionfold improvement in energy efficiency, with ultrafast nonlinear nano…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Using system-reservoir methods to derive effective field theories for broadband nonlinear quantum optics: a case study on cascaded quadratic nonlinearities

Chris Gustin, Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng +2

In broadband quantum optical systems, nonlinear interactions among a large number of frequency components induce complex dynamics that may defy heuristic analysis. In this work we…

physics.optics2022★ 271 cited

Image sensing with multilayer, nonlinear optical neural networks

Tianyu Wang, Mandar M. Sohoni, Logan G. Wright +5

Optical imaging is commonly used for both scientific and technological applications across industry and academia. In image sensing, a measurement, such as of an object's position,…

quant-ph2021★ 25 cited

Onset of non-Gaussian quantum physics in pulsed squeezing with mesoscopic fields

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Atsushi Yamamura +6

We study the emergence of non-Gaussian quantum features in pulsed squeezed light generation with a mesoscopic number (i.e., dozens to hundreds) of pump photons. Due to the strong o…

quant-ph2021★ 13 cited

A Benchmarking Study of Quantum Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization

Krishanu Sankar, Artur Scherer, Satoshi Kako +8

We study the performance scaling of three quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization: measurement-feedback coherent Ising machines (MFB-CIM), discrete adiabatic quantum comp…

physics.optics2021★ 273 cited

An optical neural network using less than 1 photon per multiplication

Tianyu Wang, Shi-Yuan Ma, Logan G. Wright +3

Deep learning has rapidly become a widespread tool in both scientific and commercial endeavors. Milestones of deep learning exceeding human performance have been achieved for a gro…

cs.LG2021★ 747 cited

Deep physical neural networks enabled by a backpropagation algorithm for arbitrary physical systems

Logan G. Wright, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Martin M. Stein +4

Deep neural networks have become a pervasive tool in science and engineering. However, modern deep neural networks' growing energy requirements now increasingly limit their scaling…

quant-ph2021★ 35 cited

Efficient sampling of ground and low-energy Ising spin configurations with a coherent Ising machine

Edwin Ng, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Satoshi Kako +3

We show that the nonlinear stochastic dynamics of a measurement-feedback-based coherent Ising machine (MFB-CIM) in the presence of quantum noise can be exploited to sample degenera…

quant-ph2021★ 3 cited

Towards an Engineering Framework for Ultrafast Quantum Nonlinear Optics

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Tatsuhiro Onodera +1

The advent of dispersion-engineered and highly nonlinear nanophotonics is expected to open up an all-optical path towards the strong-interaction regime of quantum optics by combini…

quant-ph2021★ 13 cited

Efficient simulation of ultrafast quantum nonlinear optics with matrix product states

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Logan G. Wright +2

Ultra-short pulses propagating in nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides can simultaneously leverage both temporal and spatial field confinement, promising a route towards single-photon…

quant-ph2020★ 7 cited

Broadband Parametric Downconversion as a Discrete-Continuum Fano Interaction

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Marc P. Jankowski +3

We introduce a theoretical framework based on Fano's theory of discrete-continuum interactions to analyze the quantum dynamics of broadband parametric downconversion (PDC) in the f…

quant-ph2019★ 61 cited

Engineering a Kerr-based Deterministic Cubic Phase Gate via Gaussian Operations

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Edwin Ng +3

We propose a deterministic, measurement-free implementation of a cubic phase gate for continuous-variable quantum information processing. In our scheme, the applications of displac…

quant-ph2019★ 53 cited

A quantum annealer with fully programmable all-to-all coupling via Floquet engineering

Tatsuhiro Onodera, Edwin Ng, Peter L. McMahon

Quantum annealing is a promising approach to heuristically solving difficult combinatorial optimization problems. However, the connectivity limitations in current devices lead to a…