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By implementing algorithmic versions of Sapozhenko's graph container methods, we give new algorithms for approximating the number of independent sets in bipartite graphs. Our first algorithm applies to $d$-regular, bipartite graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Matthew Jenssen , Will Perkins , Aditya Potukuchi

Approximate counting via correlation decay is the core algorithmic technique used in the sharp delineation of the computational phase transition that arises in the approximation of the partition function of anti-ferromagnetic two-spin…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Ivona Bezakova , Andreas Galanis , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Heng Guo , Daniel Stefankovic

We show that spin systems with bounded degrees and coupling independence admit fully polynomial time approximation schemes (FPTAS). We design a new recursive deterministic counting algorithm to achieve this. As applications, we give the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xiaoyu Chen , Weiming Feng , Heng Guo , Xinyuan Zhang , Zongrui Zou

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 introduce a problem class we call Polynomial Constraint Satisfaction Problems, or PCSP. Where the usual CSPs from computer science and optimization have real-valued score functions, and partition functions from physics have monomials,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Alexander D. Scott , Gregory B. Sorkin

We study the problem of deterministic approximate counting of matchings and independent sets in graphs of bounded connective constant. More generally, we consider the problem of evaluating the partition functions of the monomer-dimer model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Alistair Sinclair , Piyush Srivastava , Daniel Štefankovič , Yitong Yin

We suggest a generalization of the Feynman path integral to an integral over random surfaces. The proposed action is proportional to the linear size of the random surfaces and is called gonihedric. The convergence and the properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-13 George Savvidy

There is no an accepted exact partition function (PF) for the two-dimensional (2D) Ising model with a non-zero external magnetic field to our knowledge. Here we infer an empirical PF for such an Ising model. We compare the PFs for two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-27 Rong Qiang Wei

We prove a hardness of sampling result for the anti-ferromagnetic Ising model on random graphs of average degree $d$ for large constant $d$, proving that when the normalized inverse temperature satisfies $\beta>1$ (asymptotically…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Neng Huang , Will Perkins , Aaron Potechin

Using a combinatorial method, the partition functions for two-dimensional nearest neighbour Ising models have been derived for a square lattice of 16 sites in the presence of the magnetic field. A novel hierarchical method of enumeration of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-24 Anshu Priya , M V Sangaranarayanan

A scheme for measuring complex temperature partition functions of Ising models is introduced. In the context of ordered qubit registers this scheme finds a natural translation in terms of global operations, and single particle measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 S. Iblisdir , M. Cirio , O. Boada , G. K. Brennen

We identify a sufficient condition, treewidth-pliability, that gives a polynomial-time algorithm for an arbitrarily good approximation of the optimal value in a large class of Max-2-CSPs parameterised by the class of allowed constraint…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Miguel Romero , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

We present a Weitz-type FPTAS for the ferromagnetic Ising model across the entire Lee--Yang zero-free region, without relying on the strong spatial mixing (SSM) property. Our algorithm is Weitz-type for two reasons. First, it expresses the…

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We discuss analytical approximation schemes for the dynamics of diluted spin models. The original dynamics of the complete set of degrees of freedom is replaced by a hierarchy of equations including an increasing number of global…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Guilhem Semerjian , Martin Weigt

We study the approximability of the four-vertex model, a special case of the six-vertex model.We prove that, despite being NP-hard to approximate in the worst case, the four-vertex model admits a fully polynomial randomized approximation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Zhiguo Fu , Tianyu Liu , Xiongxin Yang

A powerful existing technique for evaluating statistical mechanical quantities in two-dimensional Ising models is based on constructing a matrix representing the nearest neighbor spin couplings and then evaluating the Pfaffian of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-16 Creighton K. Thomas , A. Alan Middleton

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 establish tight results for rapid mixing of Gibbs samplers for the Ferromagnetic Ising model on general graphs. We show that if \[(d-1)\tanh\beta<1,\] then there exists a constant C such that the discrete time mixing time of Gibbs…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Elchanan Mossel , Allan Sly

We investigate the Gibbs-measures of ferromagnetically coupled continuous spins in double-well potentials subjected to a random field (our specific example being the $\phi^4$ theory), showing ferromagnetic ordering in $d\geq 3$ dimensions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Christof Kuelske

We introduce an efficient finite-element approach for large-scale real-space pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) calculations incorporating noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. The approach, implemented within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Nikhil Kodali , Phani Motamarri