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Oscillators do the hard bits

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A network of coupled electronic oscillators can be engineered to find ground states of Ising Hamiltonians and solve various combinatorial optimization problems.

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Fig. 1: The compute flow of an Ising solver.

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Wang, T. Oscillators do the hard bits. Nat Electron 6, 728–729 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-023-01046-3

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