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The aim of this short note is to draw attention to a method by which the partition function and marginal probabilities for a certain class of random fields on complete graphs can be computed in polynomial time. This class includes Ising…

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We establish the average-case hardness of the algorithmic problem of exact computation of the partition function associated with the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses with Gaussian couplings and random external field. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-19 David Gamarnik , Eren Kizildag

A new and efficient algorithm is presented for the calculation of the partition function in the $S=\pm 1$ Ising model. As an example, we use the algorithm to obtain the thermal dependence of the magnetic spin susceptibility of an Ising…

We give a fully polynomial-time randomized approximation scheme (FPRAS) for the all-terminal network reliability problem, which is to determine the probability that, in a undirected graph, assuming each edge fails independently, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Heng Guo , Mark Jerrum

We consider the problem of approximating the partition function of the hard-core model on planar graphs of degree at most 4. We show that when the activity lambda is sufficiently large, there is no fully polynomial randomised approximation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum , Colin McQuillan

We study the computational complexity of approximating the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model with the external field parameter $\lambda$ on the unit circle in the complex plane. Complex-valued parameters for the Ising…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Pjotr Buys , Andreas Galanis , Viresh Patel , Guus Regts

We present a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the minimum value of the classical Ising Hamiltonian with linear terms on the Chimera graph structure as defined in the recent work of McGeoch and Wang. The result follows from a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Rishi Saket

Hardcore and Ising models are two most important families of two state spin systems in statistic physics. Partition function of spin systems is the center concept in statistic physics which connects microscopic particles and their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Pinyan Lu , Kuan Yang , Chihao Zhang

We design a recursive algorithm to compute the partition function of the Ising model, summed over cubic maps with fixed size and genus. The algorithm runs in polynomial time, which is much faster than methods based on a Tutte-like, or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou , Ariane Carrance , Baptiste Louf

Partition functions are an important research object in combinatorics and mathematical physics [Barvinok, 2016]. In this work, we consider the partition function of the Ising antiferromagnet on random regular graphs and characterize its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Christian Fabian , Philipp Loick

Seymour's Decomposition Theorem for regular matroids states that any matroid representable over both GF(2) and GF(3) can be obtained from matroids that are graphic, cographic, or isomorphic to R10 by 1-, 2-, and 3-sums. It is hoped that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Dillon Mayhew , Geoff Whittle , Stefan H. M. van Zwam

We propose a method for generalizing the Ising model in magnetic fields and calculating the partition function (exact solution) for the Ising model of an arbitrary shape. Specifically, the partition function is calculated using matrices…

General Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Akira Saito

We (claim to) prove the extremely surprising fact that NP=RP. It is achieved by creating a Fully Polynomial-Time Randomized Approximation Scheme (FPRAS) for approximately counting the number of independent sets in bounded degree graphs,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-06 András Faragó

We design an FPRAS to count the number of bases of any matroid given by an independent set oracle, and to estimate the partition function of the random cluster model of any matroid in the regime where $0<q<1$. Consequently, we can sample…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Nima Anari , Kuikui Liu , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Cynthia Vinzant

In this paper we propose and realize (the code is publicly available at https://github.com/Thrawn1985/2D-Partition-Function) an algorithm for exact calculation of partition function for planar graph models with binary spins. The complexity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-04 Yakov M. Karandashev , Magomed Yu. Malsagov

We study the complexity of testing if two given matroids are isomorphic. The problem is easily seen to be in $\Sigma_2^p$. In the case of linear matroids, which are represented over polynomially growing fields, we note that the problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Raghavendra Rao B. V. , Jayalal M. N. Sarma

Instantaneous quantum polynomial-time (IQP) computation is a class of quantum computation consisting only of commuting two-qubit gates and is not universal in the sense of standard quantum computation. Nevertheless, it has been shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Keisuke Fujii , Tomoyuki Morimae

A family of multispecies Ising models on generalized regular random graphs is investigated in the thermodynamic limit. The architecture is specified by class-dependent couplings and magnetic fields. We prove that the magnetizations,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Diego Alberici , Pierluigi Contucci , Emanuele Mingione , Filippo Zimmaro

Matrix representations are a powerful tool for designing efficient algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems such as matching, and linear matroid intersection and parity. In this paper, we initiate the study of matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Taihei Oki , Tasuku Soma

We achieve a quantum speed-up of fully polynomial randomized approximation schemes (FPRAS) for estimating partition functions that combine simulated annealing with the Monte-Carlo Markov Chain method and use non-adaptive cooling schedules.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Pawel Wocjan , Chen-Fu Chiang , Anura Abeyesinghe , Daniel Nagaj