Spatial Quantum Optical Annealer for Spin Hamiltonians

Project Information

HEISINGBERG

Grant agreement ID: 101114978

DOI

10.3030/101114978

EC signature date 14 June 2023

Start date 1 November 2023

End date 31 October 2027

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

€ 3 260 250,00

EU contribution

€ 3 260 250,00

Coordinated by

UBITECH LIMITED
Cyprus

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

Risk management, Legal and Ethical issues and Guidelines

Evaluation of relevant issues and outlining of best use guidelines (T1.3, T1.4)

Plan for Dissemination and Communication Activities

Summary of planned dissemination and communication activities (T6.1)

Project handbook

Handbook with all essential project activities and information (T1.1)

Website and project logo

Website and project logo information with also social media links (T6.1)

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

Details about the management of Data within the consortium (T1.4)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (40)

Correlations in Circular Quantum Cascades

Author(s): Miguel Ángel Palomo Marcos, Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Elena del Valle, Fabrice P. Laussy
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272739

Unlocking multiphoton emission from a single-photon source through mean-field engineering

Author(s): Sang Kyu Kim, Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Katarina Boos, Friedrich Sbresny, Carolin Calcagno, Hubert Riedl, Jonathan J. Finley, Carlos Antón-Solanas, Fabrice P. Laussy, Kai Müller, Lukas Hanschke, Elena del Valle
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272895

Localization in quantum field theory for inertial and accelerated observers

Author(s): R Falcone; C Conti
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2025, ISSN 1751-8121
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272290

Efficient Computation Using Spatial-Photonic Ising Machines: Utilizing Low-Rank and Circulant Matrix Constraints

Author(s): Richard Zhipeng Wang, James S. Cummins, Marvin Syed, Nikita Stroev, George Pastras, Jason Sakellariou, Symeon Tsintzos, Alexis Askitopoulos, Daniele Veraldi, Marcello Calvanese Strinati, Silvia Gentilini, Davide Pierangeli, Claudio Conti, Natalia G. Berlo
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272569

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Author(s): Berloff, Gleb; Berloff, Natalia
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 2025, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2511.15756

Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

Author(s): Kalinin, Kirill P; Gladrow, Jannes; Chu, Jiaqi; Clegg, James H; Cletheroe, Daniel; Kelly, Douglas J; Rahmani, Babak; Brennan, Grace; Canakci, Burcu; Falck, Fabian; Hansen, Michael; Kleewein, Jim; Kremer, Heiner; O'Shea, Greg; Pickup, Lucinda; Rajmohan, Saravan; Rowstron, Ant; Ruhle, Victor; Braine, Lee; Khedekar, Shrirang; Berloff, Natalia G; Gkantsidis, Christos; Parmigiani, Francesca; Ballani, Hitesh
Published in: Nature, 2025, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.118719

Correlations in circular quantum cascades

Author(s): Miguel Ángel Palomo Marcos; Eduardo Zubizarret Casalengua; Elena del Valle; Fabrice P. Laussy
Published in: Physical Review A, 2025, ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272740

High-Fidelity Spatial Photonic Ising Machines via Precise Wavefront Shaping

Author(s): D. Karanikolopoulos, P. S. Karavelas, L. Mouchliadis, A. K. Spiliotis, N. L. Pitanios, S. Gentilini, D. Veraldi, P. Charlesworth, D. Pierangeli, J. Sakellariou, N. G. Berloff, S. I. Tsintzos, C. Conti, P. G. Savvidis Vie
Published in: CoRR, 2026, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2602.13714

Unveiling asymmetric topological photonic states in anisotropic 2D perovskite microcavities

Author(s): Emmanouil G. Mavrotsoupakis; Leonidas Mouchliadis; Junhui Cao; Minoas C. Chairetis; Marios E. Triantafyllou-Rundell; Eleni C. P. Macropulos; Giannis G. Paschos; Apostolos Pantousas; Huaying Liu; Alexey V. Kavokin; Hamid Ohadi; Constantinos C. Stoumpos; Pavlos G. Savvidis
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, 2025, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41377-025-01852-8

Mirror-mediated long-range coupling and robust phase locking of spatially separated exciton-polariton condensates

Author(s): Liang, Shuang; Alnatah, Hassan; Yao, Qi; Beaumariage, Jonathan; West, Ken; Baldwin, Kirk; Pfeiffer, Loren N.; Berloff, Natalia G.; Snoke, David W.
Published in: CoRR, 2025, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15753220

Nature

Author(s): Momeni, Ali; Rahmani, Babak; Scellier, Benjamin; Wright, Logan; Mcmahon, Peter; Wanjura, Clara; Li, Yuhang; Skalli, Anas; Berloff, Natalia; Onodera, Tatsuhiro; Oguz, Ilker; Morichetti, Francesco; del Hougne, Philipp; Le Gallo, Manuel; Sebastian, Abu; Mirhoseini, Azalia; Zhang, Cheng; Marković, Danijela; Brunner, Daniel; Moser, Christophe; Gigan, Sylvain; Marquardt, Florian; Ozcan, Aydogan; Grollier, Julie; Liu, Andrea; Psaltis, Demetri; Alù, Andrea; Fleury, Romain
Published in: Nature, 2025, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.03372

Fully Programmable Spatial Photonic Ising Machine by Focal Plane Division

Author(s): Daniele Veraldi, Davide Pierangeli, Silvia Gentilini, Marcello Calvanese Strinati, Jason Sakellariou, James S. Cummins, Airat Kamaletdinov, Marvin Syed, Richard Zhipeng Wang, Natalia G. Berloff, Dimitrios Karanikolopoulos, Pavlos G. Savvidis, Claudio Cont
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272805

Encoding arbitrary Ising Hamiltonians on Spatial Photonic Ising Machines

Author(s): Jason Sakellariou, Alexis Askitopoulos, Georgios Pastras, Symeon I. Tsintzos
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272712

Ising Hamiltonian minimization: Gain-based computing with manifold reduction of soft spins vs quantum annealing

Author(s): James S. Cummins, Hayder Salman, Natalia G. Berloff
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVRESEARCH.7.013150

Observation of Lump Solitons

Author(s): Ludovica Dieli, Davide Pierangeli, Fabio Baronio, Stefano Trillo, Claudio Conti
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 136, 2026, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/GGBS-Y21W

Complex Vector Gain-Based Annealer for Minimizing XY Hamiltonians

Author(s): James S. Cummins, Natalia G. Berloff
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272854

Spatial correlations of vortex quantum states

Author(s): Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Fabrice P. Laussy
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: ArXiv.org
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272344

Efficient computation using spatial-photonic Ising machines with low-rank and circulant matrix constraints

Author(s): Richard Zhipeng Wang; James S. Cummins; Marvin Syed; Nikita Stroev; George Pastras; Jason Sakellariou; Symeon Tsintzos; Alexis Askitopoulos; Daniele Veraldi; Marcello Calvanese Strinati; Silvia Gentilini; Davide Pierangeli; Claudio Conti; Natalia G. Berloff
Published in: Communications Physics, 2025, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.116145

Inequality for relativistic local quantum measurements

Author(s): Riccardo Falcone, Claudio Conti
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 113, 2026, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/YDMG-5VJM

Instantons and Rarefaction Pulses as Pathways to Global Phase Coherence in Gain-Based Optical Networks

Author(s): Wang, Richard Zhipeng; Berloff, Natalia G.
Published in: CoRR, 2025, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2505.04031

Localization in quantum field theory

Author(s): Riccardo Falcone, Claudio Conti
Published in: Reviews in Physics, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2405-4283
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.15348

Vector Ising spin annealer for minimizing Ising Hamiltonians

Author(s): James S. Cummins; Natalia G. Berloff
Published in: Communications Physics, 2025, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.118720

Fully Programmable Spatial Photonic Ising Machine by Focal Plane Division

Author(s): Daniele Veraldi; Davide Pierangeli; Silvia Gentilini; Marcello Calvanese Strinati; Jason Sakellariou; James S. Cummins; Airat Kamaletdinov; Marvin Syed; Richard Zhipeng Wang; Natalia G. Berloff; Dimitrios Karanikolopoulos; Pavlos G. Savvidis; Claudio Conti
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2025, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.10689

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Author(s): E. Zubizarreta Casalengua; F. P. Laussy; E.‍ ‍del Valle
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2024, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2402.14010

Macroscopic Noise Amplification by Asymmetric Dyads in Non-Hermitian Optical Systems for Generative Diffusion Models

Author(s): Alexander Johnston, Natalia G. Berloff
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 132, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2206.12200

Phase retrieval via gain-based photonic XY-Hamiltonian optimization

Author(s): Richard Zhipeng Wang; Guangyao Li; Silvia Gentilini; Davide Pierangeli; Marcello Calvanese Strinati; Claudio Conti; Natalia G. Berloff
Published in: Communications Physics, 2026, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15753173

Localization in Quantum Field Theory for inertial and accelerated observers

Author(s): Riccardo Falcone, Claudio Conti
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272290

Coupling Light with Matter for Identifying Dominant Subnetworks

Author(s): Airat Kamaletdinov, Natalia G. Berloff
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272547

Training of Physical Neural Networks

Author(s): Ali Momeni, Babak Rahmani, Benjamin Scellier, Logan G. Wright, Peter L. McMahon, Clara C. Wanjura, Yuhang Li, Anas Skalli, Natalia G. Berloff, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Ilker Oguz, Francesco Morichetti, Philipp del Hougne, Manuel Le Gallo, Abu Sebastian, Azalia
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272622

Photon liquefaction in time

Author(s): Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Elena del Valle, Fabrice P. Laussy
Published in: APL Quantum, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 2835-0103
Publisher: AIP Publising
DOI: 10.1063/5.0206213

Solving Distance-Based Optimization Problems Using Optical Hardware

Author(s): Li, Guangyao; Wang, Richard Zhipeng; Berloff, Natalia G.
Published in: CoRR, 2025, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2507.11378

Unlocking multiphoton emission from a single-photon source through mean-field engineering

Author(s): Sang Kyu Kim; Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua; Katarina Boos; Friedrich Sbresny; Carolin Calcagno; Hubert Riedl; Jonathan J. Finley; Carlos Antón-Solanas; Fabrice P. Laussy; Kai Müller; Lukas Hanschke; Elena del Valle
Published in: CLEO 2025, 2025, ISSN 2160-8989
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.ADW3395

Higher-Order Kuramoto Oscillator Network for Dense Associative Memory

Author(s): Nägerl, Jona; Berloff, Natalia
Published in: CoRR, 2025, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2507.21984

Encoding Arbitrary Ising Hamiltonians on Spatial Photonic Ising Machines

Author(s): Jason Sakellariou; Alexis Askitopoulos; Georgios Pastras; Symeon I. Tsintzos
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2025, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272712

Two photons everywhere

Author(s): E. Zubizarreta Casalengua; F. P. Laussy; E.‍ ‍del Valle
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2024, ISSN 1471-2962
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2402.14010

Benchmarking the optimization of optical machines with the planted solutions

Author(s): Nikita Stroev, Natalia G. Berloff, Nir Davidson
Published in: Communications Physics, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.06859

Observation of Two-Dimensional Dam Break Flow and a Gaseous Phase of Solitons in a Photon Fluid

Author(s): Ludovica Dieli, Davide Pierangeli, Eugenio DelRe, Claudio Conti
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 133, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14272783

Vector Ising Spin Annealer for Minimizing Ising Hamiltonians

Author(s): James S. Cummins, Natalia G. Berloff
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272383

A Fully Analog Pipeline for Portfolio Optimization

Author(s): Cummins, James;Berloff, Natalia
Published in: ArXiv.org, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14272870

Optimal quantum key distribution networks: capacitance versus security

Author(s): Cirigliano L.; Brosco V.; Castellano C.; Conti C.; Pilozzi L.
Published in: npj Quantum Information, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2024), 2024, ISSN 2056-6387
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.04221

Other (1)

Beyond Digital: Harnessing Analog Hardware for Machine Learning

Author(s): Marvin Syed, Kirill Kalinin, Natalia Berloff
Publisher: openreview.net