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Quantum Spin Glass in the Two-Dimensional Disordered Heisenberg Model via Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2026-03-27 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the two-dimensional frustrated quantum Heisenberg model with bond disorder on nearest-neighbor couplings using the recently introduced Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States framework, which enables accurate and efficient computation of disorder-averaged observables with a single variational optimization. Simulations on large lattices reveal an extended region of the phase diagram where long-range magnetic order vanishes in the thermodynamic limit, while the overlap order parameter, which characterizes quantum spin glass states, remains finite. These findings, supported by a semiclassical analysis based on a large-spin expansion, provide compelling evidence that the spin glass phase is stable against quantum fluctuations, unlike the classical case where it disappears at any finite temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2507.05073,
  title  = {Quantum Spin Glass in the Two-Dimensional Disordered Heisenberg Model via Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States},
  author = {Luciano Loris Viteritti and Riccardo Rende and Giacomo Bracci-Testasecca and Jacopo Niedda and Roderich Moessner and Giuseppe Carleo and Antonello Scardicchio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05073},
  year   = {2026}
}

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19 pages (including Supplemental Material), 9 figures