Building a simple oscillator based Ising machine for research and education

TL;DR

This paper presents a simple oscillator-based Ising machine designed for educational and research purposes, demonstrating its potential for solving complex combinatorial problems and exploring applications like quantum simulations and protein folding.

Contribution

It introduces a straightforward oscillator-based Ising machine model tailored for educational and research use, highlighting its simplicity and potential applications.

Findings

Demonstrates the feasibility of a simple oscillator-based Ising machine

Shows potential for solving combinatorial problems

Highlights applications in quantum simulations and protein folding

Abstract

Oscillator based Ising machines are non-von-Neumann machines ideally suited for solving combinatorial problems otherwise intractable on classic stored-program digital computers due to their run-time complexity. Possible future applications are manifold ranging from quantum simulations to protein folding and are of high academic and commercial interest as well. Described in the following is a very simple such machine aimed at educational and research applications.