Sounds like some of the trendy analogy computing approaches, like this one for example: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/05/Analog-It

Sounds like some of the trendy analogy computing approaches, like this one for example: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/05/Analog-Iterative-Machine-AIM-using-light-to-solve-quadratic-optimization-problems-with-mixed-variables.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/0...