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We propose a simple dynamical model of the glass transition based on the results from a non-randomly frustrated spin model which is known to form a glassy state below a characteristic quench temperature. The model is characterized by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Michael Ignatiev , Lei Gu , Bulbul Chakraborty

The gauge theory of spin glasses and statistical-mechanical formulation of error-correcting codes are reviewed with an emphasis on their similarities. For the gauge theory, we explain the functional identities on dynamical autocorrelation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Hidetoshi Nishimori

This paper studies a Large Language Model's ability to exhibit intelligence equivalent to that of a human by analyzing temperature-induced phase transitions, abrupt changes in the macroscopic behavior of a system, in the Turing test. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-16 Jackson George , Zachariah Yusaf , Stephanie Zoltick , Linh Huynh

Soft-granular media, such as dense emulsions, foams or tissues, exhibit either fluid- or solid-like properties depending on the applied external stresses. Whereas bulk rheology of such materials has been thoroughly investigated, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-04 Michal Bogdan , Jesus Pineda , Mihir Durve , Leon Jurkiewicz , Sauro Succi , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Guzowski

A feedback vertex set (FVS) of an undirected graph contains vertices from every cycle of this graph. Constructing a FVS of sufficiently small cardinality is very difficult in the worst cases, but for random graphs this problem can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-28 Shao-Meng Qin , Ying Zeng , Hai-Jun Zhou

We discuss an analysis of Constraint Satisfaction problems, such as Sphere Packing, K-SAT and Graph Coloring, in terms of an effective energy landscape. Several intriguing geometrical properties of the solution space become in this light…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-08-28 Florent Krzakala , Jorge Kurchan

We develop an effective nonhierarchical data clustering method using an analogy to the dynamic coarse graining of a stochastic system. Analyzing the eigensystem of an interitem transition matrix identifies fuzzy clusters corresponding to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Korenblum , David Shalloway

Glass transition where viscosity of liquids increases dramatically upon decrease of temperature without any major change in structural properties, remains one of the most challenging problems in condensed matter physics (Cavagna, 2009;…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-29 Smarajit Karmakar , Giorgio Parisi

We consider the approach describing glass formation in liquids as a progressive trapping in an exponentially large number of metastable states. To go beyond the mean-field setting, we provide a real-space renormalization group (RG) analysis…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-03-15 Chiara Cammarota , Giulio Biroli , Marco Tarzia , Gilles Tarjus

We study the equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of Boolean decision problems with competing interactions on scale-free networks in an external bias (magnetic field). Previous studies at zero field have shown a remarkable equilibrium…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-02-19 Zheng Zhu , Juan Carlos Andresen , M. A. Moore , Helmut G. Katzgraber

A systematic investigation is presented of grain boundaries and grain boundary networks in two dimensional flexible membranes with crystalline order. An isolated grain boundary undergoes a buckling transition at a critical value of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Carlo Carraro , David R. Nelson

This article reviews recent studies of mean-field and one dimensional quantum disordered spin systems coupled to different types of dissipative environments. The main issues discussed are: (i) The real-time dynamics in the glassy phase and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Leticia F. Cugliandolo

In this work it is studied the Hopfield fermionic spin glass model which allows interpolating from trivial randomness to a highly frustrated regime. Therefore, it is possible to investigate whether or not frustration is an essential…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-14 S. G. Magalhaes , C. V. Morais , F. M. Zimmer

The class of random-cluster models is a unification of a variety of stochastic processes of significance for probability and statistical physics, including percolation, Ising, and Potts models; in addition, their study has impact on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Geoffrey Grimmett

We prove that the Aizenman-Contucci relations, well known for fully connected spin glasses, hold in diluted spin glasses as well. We also prove more general constraints in the same spirit for multi-overlaps, systematically confirming and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 Adriano Barra , Luca De Sanctis

We study the problem of predictability, or "nature vs. nurture", in several disordered Ising spin systems evolving at zero temperature from a random initial state: how much does the final state depend on the information contained in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-18 J. Ye , R. Gheissari , J. Machta , C. M. Newman , D. L. Stein

The existence of definite orders in frustrated quantum systems is related rigorously to the occurrence of fully factorized ground states below a threshold value of the frustration. Ground-state separability thus provides a natural measure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-21 Salvatore M. Giampaolo , Gerardo Adesso , Fabrizio Illuminati

Quantum kinetically constrained models can exhibit a wealth of dynamical phenomena ranging from anomalous transport to Hilbert-space fragmentation (HSF). We study a class of one-dimensional particle number conserving systems where particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-02 Cheng Wang , Zhi-Cheng Yang

The zero range process is of particular importance as a generic model for domain wall dynamics of one-dimensional systems far from equilibrium. We study this process in one dimension with rates which induce an effective attraction between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-26 Stefan Grosskinsky , Gunter M. Schuetz , Herbert Spohn

A particle in a random potential with logarithmic correlations in dimensions $d=1,2$ is shown to undergo a dynamical transition at $T_{dyn}>0$. In $d=1$ exact results demonstrate that $T_{dyn}=T_c$, the static glass transition temperature,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Horacio Castillo , Pierre Le Doussal