
Career
- 2002-present DAMTP faculty member, since 2013 Professor of Applied Mathematics
- 2002-present Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
- 2013-2016 on leave, Professor, Dean of Faculty, Director of Photonics and Quantum Materials Program, Skoltech
- 1999-2002 PIC Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, the University of California in Los Angeles
- 1997-1999 UC President's Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, the University of California in Los Angeles
Research
Natalia Berloff leads the Quantum Fluids\ Physics-inspired computing group. She is an applied mathematician with a range of research interests which focus on coherence in non-equilibrium quantum systems, superfluidity, quantum fluids, Bose-Einstein condensates, and classical and quantum simulators based on atomic and solid-state condensates.
Selected Publications
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/ngb23/publications.html
Publications
Vector Ising spin annealer for minimizing Ising Hamiltonians
– Communications Physics
(2025)
8,
225
(doi: 10.1038/s42005-025-02145-7)
Exact Spin Elimination in Ising Hamiltonians and Energy-Based Machine
Learning
(2025)
Instantons and Rarefaction Pulses as Pathways to Global Phase Coherence
in Gain-Based Optical Networks
(2025)
Efficient computation using spatial-photonic Ising machines with low-rank and circulant matrix constraints
– Communications Physics
(2025)
abs/2406.01400,
86
(doi: 10.1038/s42005-025-01987-5)
Fully Programmable Spatial Photonic Ising Machine by Focal Plane Division.
– Physical Review Letters
(2025)
134,
063802
Ising Hamiltonian minimization: Gain-based computing with manifold reduction of soft spins vs quantum annealing
– Physical Review Research
(2025)
7,
013150
Benchmarking the optimization of optical machines with the planted solutions
– Communications Physics
(2024)
7,
374
(doi: 10.1038/s42005-024-01870-9)
Complex Vector Gain-Based Annealer for Minimizing XY Hamiltonians
(2024)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.02010)
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