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We combine the hyper-netted chain approximation of liquid state theory with the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition to analyze the structure and dynamics of soft spheres interacting via harmonic repulsion. We determine the locus of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-29 Ludovic Berthier , Elijah Flenner , Hugo Jacquin , Grzegorz Szamel

Optimizing a high-dimensional non-convex function is, in general, computationally hard and many problems of this type are hard to solve even approximately. Complexity theory characterizes the optimal approximation ratios achievable in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-25 Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari

We present a novel approach to quantizing Markov chains. The approach is based on the Markov chain coupling method, which is frequently used to prove fast mixing. Given a particular coupling, e.g., a grand coupling, we construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Kristan Temme , Pawel Wocjan

Mean field-like approximations (including naive mean field, Bethe and Kikuchi and more general Cluster Variational Methods) are known to stabilize ordered phases at temperatures higher than the thermodynamical transition. For example, in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Lage-Castellanos , R. Mulet , F. Ricci-Tersenghi

Infinite-range spin-glass models with Levy-distributed interactions show a freezing transition similar to disordered spin systems on finite connectivity random graphs. It is shown that despite diverging moments of the local field…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Engel

We study a three-dimensional plaquette spin model whose low temperature dynamics is glassy, due to localised defects and effective kinetic constraints. While the thermodynamics of this system is smooth at all temperatures, we show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-10 Robert L. Jack , Juan P. Garrahan

Computing smoothing distributions, the distributions of one or more states conditional on past, present, and future observations is a recurring problem when operating on general hidden Markov models. The aim of this paper is to provide a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Randal Douc , Aurélien Garivier , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson

We propose a new effective cluster algorithm of tuning the critical point automatically, which is an extended version of Swendsen-Wang algorithm. We change the probability of connecting spins of the same type, $p = 1 - e^{- J/ k_BT}$, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yusuke Tomita , Yutaka Okabe

Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms have important applications in counting problems and in machine learning problems, settings that involve estimating quantities that are difficult to compute exactly. How much can quantum computers speed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Aram W. Harrow , Annie Y. Wei

We have simulated $(3+1)-$dimensional finite temperature $Z_2$ gauge theory by using Metropolis algorithm. We aimed to observe the deconfinement phase transitions by using geometric methods. In order to do so we have proposed two different…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-16 Semra Gündüç , Mehmet Dilaver , Yiğit Gündüç

State-of-the-art algorithms in lattice gauge theory typically rely heavily on detailed balance, which is an instrumental tool to prove the correct convergence of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm. In this work, we investigate an…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-05 Marina Krstic Marinkovic , Joao C. Pinto Barros

Markov chain methods are remarkably successful in computational physics, machine learning, and combinatorial optimization. The cost of such methods often reduces to the mixing time, i.e., the time required to reach the steady state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Davide Orsucci , Hans J. Briegel , Vedran Dunjko

As a guideline for experimental tests of the ideal glass transition (Random Pinning Glass Transition, RPGT) that shall be induced in a system by randomly pinning particles, we performed first-principle computations within the Hypernetted…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-07 Chiara Cammarota , Beatriz Seoane

Correlations of an environment are crucial for the dynamics of non-Markovian quantum systems, which may not be known in advance. In this paper, we propose a gradient algorithm for identifying the correlations in terms of time-varying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Shibei Xue , Jun Zhang , Ian R. Petersen

We present a nonequilibrium strong-coupling approach to inhomogeneous systems of ultracold atoms in optical lattices. We demonstrate its application to the Mott-insulating phase of a two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model in the presence of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-25 A. Dirks , K. Mikelsons , H. R. Krishnamurthy , J. K. Freericks

Exotic phases of matter can emerge from strong correlations in quantum many-body systems. Quantum gas microscopy affords the opportunity to study these correlations with unprecedented detail. Here we report site-resolved observations of…

We consider algorithms that, from an arbitrarily sampling of $N$ spheres (possibly overlapping), find a close packed configuration without overlapping. These problems can be formulated as minimization problems with non-convex constraints.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Pierre Degond , Marina A. Ferreira , Sébastien Motsch

One-shot coupling is a method of bounding the convergence rate between two copies of a Markov chain in total variation distance, which was first introduced by Roberts and Rosenthal and generalized by Madras and Sezer. The method is divided…

Computation · Statistics 2022-07-04 Sabrina Sixta , Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

We propose a robust approach to spin squeezing with local interactions that approaches the Heisenberg limit of phase sensitivity. To generate the requisite entanglement, we generalize the paradigmatic two-axis countertwisting Hamiltonian --…

Spin-glass systems are universal models for representing many-body phenomena in statistical physics and computer science. High quality solutions of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems can be encoded into low energy states of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-14 Gavin S. Hartnett , Masoud Mohseni