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In this study the magnetization phenomenon has been investigated as a behavior of interacting elementary moments ensemble, with the help of Ising model [1] in the frame of non-extensive statistical mechanics. To investigate the physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Karabekirogullari , F. Buyukkilic , D. Demirhan

Spin glasses are fundamental probability distributions at the core of statistical physics, the theory of average-case computational complexity, and modern high-dimensional statistical inference. In the mean-field setting, we design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ferenc Bencs , Brice Huang , Daniel Z. Lee , Kuikui Liu , Guus Regts

In the Ising model, we consider the problem of estimating the covariance of the spins at two specified vertices. In the ferromagnetic case, it is easy to obtain an additive approximation to this covariance by repeatedly sampling from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

We use the class of commuting quantum computations known as IQP (Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial time) to strengthen the conjecture that quantum computers are hard to simulate classically. We show that, if either of two plausible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Michael J. Bremner , Ashley Montanaro , Dan J. Shepherd

The bulk and boundary magnetizations are calculated for the critical Ising model on a randomly triangulated disk in the presence of a boundary magnetic field h. In the continuum limit this model corresponds to a c = 1/2 conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean M. Carroll , Miguel E. Ortiz , Washington Taylor

The Ising model is important in statistical modeling and inference in many applications, however its normalizing constant, mean number of active vertices and mean spin interaction -- quantities needed in inference -- are computationally…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-23 Alejandro Murua-Sazo , Ranjan Maitra

We contribute to the mathematical theory of the design of low temperature Ising machines, a type of experimental probabilistic computing device implementing the Ising model. Encoding the output of a function in the ground state of a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Andrew G. Moore , Zachary Richey , Isaac K. Martin

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 review is given on some recent developments in the theory of the Ising model in a random field. This model is a good representation of a large number of impure materials. After a short repetition of earlier arguments, which prove the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. Nattermann

We consider the problem of estimating the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model in a consistent external magnetic field. The estimation is done via importance sampling in the dual of the Forney factor graph representing the…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-27 Mehdi Molkaraie

Studying the complexity of states sampled from various ensembles is a central component of quantum information theory. In this work we establish the average-case hardness of learning, in the statistical query model, the Born distributions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Maxwell West

The Ising model is a simple statistical model for ferromagnetism. There are analytic solutions for low dimensions and very efficient Monte Carlo methods, such as cluster algorithms, for simulating this model in special cases. However most…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Johann Ostmeyer , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Marcus Petschlies , Ferenc Pittler

Although the fully connected Ising model does not have a length scale, we show that its critical exponents can be found using finite size scaling with the scaling variable equal to N, the number of spins. We find that at the critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-15 Louis Colonna-Romano , Harvey Gould , W. Klein

The Lenz-Ising model has served for almost a century as a basis for understanding ferromagnetism, and has become a paradigmatic model for phase transitions in statistical mechanics. While retaining the Ising energy arguments, we use…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-18 Haley A. Yaple , Daniel M. Abrams

We investigate analytically and numerically an Ising spin model with ferromagnetic coupling defined on random graphs corresponding to Feynman diagrams of a $\phi^q$ field theory, which exhibits a mean field phase transition. We explicitly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-21 Piotr Bialas , Andrzej K. Oleś

We study the problem of approximating the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model in graphs and hypergraphs. Our first result is a deterministic approximation scheme (an FPTAS) for the partition function in bounded degree graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Jingcheng Liu , Alistair Sinclair , Piyush Srivastava

A dimer mean-field model for the Ising spin-glass is presented. Despite its simplicity it captures some of the essential features of the spin-glass physics. The distribution of the single-spin magnetization is determined from a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-12-16 Yonatan Dubi , Massimiliano Di Ventra

As powerful as machine learning (ML) techniques are in solving problems involving data with large dimensionality, explaining the results from the fitted parameters remains a challenging task of utmost importance, especially in physics…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-15 Roberto C. Alamino

We use network analysis to describe and characterize an archetypal quantum system - an Ising spin chain in a transverse magnetic field. We analyze weighted networks for this quantum system, with link weights given by various measures of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Marc Andrew Valdez , Lincoln D. Carr , Kaden R. A. Hazzard

The two-dimensional Ising model of a ferromagnet allows for many ways of computing its partition function and other properties. Each way reveals surprising features of what we might call Ising Matter. Moreover, the various ways would appear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-28 Martin H. Krieger