Using a Spatial Light Modulator to Achieve Massive-Parallelization in Analog Ising Machines

With the increasing demand for efficient computing to address complex real-world problems like combinatorial optimization, both academia and industry are exploring alternative computing paradigms. The Ising machine (IM) is one such approach, solving complex optimization problems by mapping their cost functions onto the interconnection matrix <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$J_{ij}$</tex> of the Ising model, given by