{"id":171793,"date":"2023-09-11T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-physics-based-ising-solver-based-on-standard-cmos-technology"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:29:31","slug":"a-physics-based-ising-solver-based-on-standard-cmos-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-physics-based-ising-solver-based-on-standard-cmos-technology","title":{"rendered":"A physics-based Ising solver based on standard CMOS technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-physics-based-ising-solver-based-on-standard-cmos-technology3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers, systems that perform computations by exploiting quantum mechanics phenomena, could help to efficiently tackle several complex tasks, including so-called combinatorial optimization problems. These are problems that entail identifying the optimal combination of variables among several options and under a series of constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers that can tackle these problems should be based on reliable hardware systems, which have an intricate all-to-all node connectivity. This connectivity ultimately allows <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphs<\/a> representing arbitrary dimensions of a problem to be directly mapped onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer+hardware\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University of Minnesota recently developed a new electronic device based on standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology that could support this crucial mapping process. This device, introduced in a paper in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i>, is a physics-based Ising solver comprised of coupled ring oscillators and an all-to-all node connected architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers, systems that perform computations by exploiting quantum mechanics phenomena, could help to efficiently tackle several complex tasks, including so-called combinatorial optimization problems. These are problems that entail identifying the optimal combination of variables among several options and under a series of constraints. Quantum computers that can tackle these problems should be based on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1965,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mapping","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}