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20142026
most citedThe Boundary for Quantum Advantage in Gaussian Boson Sampling

92 citations · 248 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.ET2026

Continuous-time nonlinear closed-loop in-memory computing for high-accuracy massive MIMO detection

Piergiulio Mannocci, Giacomo Pedretti, Fabian Böhm +1

Analog in-memory computing (IMC) has emerged as a promising approach for accelerating matrix operations by exploiting the intrinsic physics of memory arrays. To date, however, most…

quant-ph2026

Modeling the Quantum Photon Statistics in Hybrid Light-Matter Integrated Circuits

Mathias Van Regemortel, Vincenzo Ardizzone, Eugenio Maggiolini +3

Strong light-matter coupling between a guided electromagnetic mode and an excitonic semiconductor transition gives rise to exciton-polaritons with optical nonlinearities far exceed…

quant-ph2025

Optimizing Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits using Differentiable Tensor Networks

Mathias Van Regemortel, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

Recent reports of large photonic nonlinearities in integrated photonic devices, using the strong excitonic light-matter coupling in semiconductors, necessitate a tailored design fr…

cs.ET2025

Accelerating Hybrid XORCNF Boolean Satisfiability Problems Natively with In-Memory Computing

Haesol Im, Fabian Böhm, Giacomo Pedretti +14

The Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem is a computationally challenging decision problem central to many industrial applications. For SAT problems in cryptanalysis, circuit desig…

math.OC2025

Hardware-Compatible Single-Shot Feasible-Space Heuristics for Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem

Haesol Im, Chan-Woo Yang, Moslem Noori +10

Research into the development of special-purpose computing architectures designed to solve quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems has flourished in recent year…

cs.ET2024★ 3 cited

Parallel Tempering-Inspired Distributed Binary Optimization with In-Memory Computing

Xiangyi Zhang, Fabian Böhm, Elisabetta Valiante +7

In-memory computing (IMC) has been shown to be a promising approach for solving binary optimization problems while significantly reducing energy and latency. Building on the advant…

cs.ET2024

Invited: Neuromorphic architectures based on augmented silicon photonics platforms

Matěj Hejda, Federico Marchesin, George Papadimitriou +6

In this work, we discuss our vision for neuromorphic accelerators based on integrated photonics within the framework of the Horizon Europe NEUROPULS project. Augmented integrated p…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Separable Operator Networks

Xinling Yu, Sean Hooten, Ziyue Liu +4

Operator learning has become a powerful tool in machine learning for modeling complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Although Deep Operator Net…

cs.ET2024★ 1 cited

Computing High-Degree Polynomial Gradients in Memory

T. Bhattacharya, G. H. Hutchinson, G. Pedretti +6

Specialized function gradient computing hardware could greatly improve the performance of state-of-the-art optimization algorithms, e.g., based on gradient descent or conjugate gra…

cs.CE2023★ 3 cited

Automatic differentiation accelerated shape optimization approaches to photonic inverse design on rectilinear simulation grids

Sean Hooten, Peng Sun, Liron Gantz +3

Shape optimization approaches to inverse design offer low-dimensional, physically-guided parameterizations of structures by representing them as combinations of shape primitives. H…

cs.ET2023★ 22 cited

Memristor-based hardware and algorithms for higher-order Hopfield optimization solver outperforming quadratic Ising machines

Mohammad Hizzani, Arne Heittmann, George Hutchinson +6

Ising solvers offer a promising physics-based approach to tackle the challenging class of combinatorial optimization problems. However, typical solvers operate in a quadratic energ…

physics.optics2022★ 14 cited

Adjoint optimization of polarization-splitting grating couplers

Peng Sun, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Sean Hooten +1

We have designed a polarization-splitting grating coupler (PSGC) in silicon-oninsulator (SOI) that has 1.2 dB peak loss in numerical simulations, which is the best simulated perfor…

quant-ph2021★ 92 cited

The Boundary for Quantum Advantage in Gaussian Boson Sampling

Jacob F. F. Bulmer, Bryn A. Bell, Rachel S. Chadwick +9

Identifying the boundary beyond which quantum machines provide a computational advantage over their classical counterparts is a crucial step in charting their usefulness. Gaussian…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 37 cited

Inverse Design of Grating Couplers Using the Policy Gradient Method from Reinforcement Learning

Sean Hooten, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

We present a proof-of-concept technique for the inverse design of electromagnetic devices motivated by the policy gradient method in reinforcement learning, named PHORCED (PHotonic…

physics.app-ph2018

Thermally tunable hybrid photonic architecture for nonlinear optical circuits

Marina Radulaski, Ranojoy Bose, Tho Tran +3

We develop a thermally tunable hybrid photonic platform comprising gallium arsenide (GaAs) photonic crystal cavities, silicon nitride (SiN) grating couplers and waveguides, and…

cs.NE2015★ 4 cited

Towards Trainable Media: Using Waves for Neural Network-Style Training

Michiel Hermans, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

In this paper we study the concept of using the interaction between waves and a trainable medium in order to construct a matrix-vector multiplier. In particular we study such a dev…

cs.NE2014★ 70 cited

Trainable and Dynamic Computing: Error Backpropagation through Physical Media

Michiel Hermans, Michaël Burm, Joni Dambre +1

Machine learning algorithms, and more in particular neural networks, arguably experience a revolution in terms of performance. Currently, the best systems we have for speech recogn…