Since the invention of the solid-state transistor, the overwhelming majority
of computers followed the von Neumann architecture that strictly separates
logic operations and memory. Today, there is a revived interest in alternative
computation models accompanied by the necessity to develop corresponding
hardware architectures. The Ising machine, for example, is a variant of the
celebrated Hopfield network based on the Ising model. It can be realized with
artifcial spins such as the `parametron' that arises in driven nonlinear
resonators. The parametron encodes binary information in the phase state of its
oscillation. It enables, in principle, logic operations without energy transfer
and the corresponding speed limitations. In this work, we experimentally
demonstrate flipping of parametron phase states on a timescale of an
oscillation period, much faster than the ringdown time \tau that is often
(erroneously) deemed a fundamental limit for resonator operations. Our work
establishes a new paradigm for resonator-based logic architectures.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
