Large-scale Coherent Ising Machine

Today, world-wide efforts are being undertaken to explore non-von Neumann computation methods to overcome “the end of Moore’s law”. A promising approach is the coherent Ising machine (CIM), which utilizes a network of degenerate optical parametric oscillators for solving ground-state-search problems of the Ising model. Since its proposal in 2013 and the first proof-of-principle experiment in 2014, research on experimental CIMs has made rapid progress and now reached the level where we can find solutions to large-scale combinatorial optimization problems using a CIM system. In this paper, we review recent progress on CIMs, mainly focusing on the experimental side.