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We investigate deep learning autoencoders for the unsupervised recognition of phase transitions in physical systems formulated on a lattice. We focus our investigation on the 2-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model and then test the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-15 Constantia Alexandrou , Andreas Athenodorou , Charalambos Chrysostomou , Srijit Paul

Nanopatterned magnetic thin films offer a platform for exploration of tailored magnetic properties such as emergent long-range order. A prominent example is artificial spin ice (ASI), where an arrangement of nanoscale magnetic elements,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Anders Strømberg , Einar Digernes , Rajesh Vilas Chopdekar , Jostein Grepstad , Erik Folven

We investigate the structural similarities between liquid water and 53 ices, including 20 knowncrystalline phases. We base such similarity comparison on the local environments that consist of atoms within a certain cutoff radius of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Bartomeu Monserrat , Jan Gerit Brandenburg , Edgar A. Engel , Bingqing Cheng

We consider an active Ising model in which spins both diffuse and align on lattice in one and two dimensions. The diffusion is biased so that plus or minus spins hop preferably to the left or to the right, which generates a flocking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-09 A. Solon , J. Tailleur

Dynamical quantum phase transitions are at the forefront of current efforts to understand quantum matter out of equilibrium. Except for a few exactly solvable models, predictions of these critical phenomena typically rely on advanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Fredrik Brange , Sebastiano Peotta , Christian Flindt , Teemu Ojanen

Artificial spin ice (ASI) are nanomagnetic metamaterials exhibiting a wide range of emergent properties, which have recently shown promise for neuromorphic computing. However, the lack of efficient protocols to control the state evolution…

After removal of an applied magnetic field, artificial square spin ice can be left in a metastable remanent state, with nonzero residual magnetization and excess energy above the ground state. Using a model of magnetic islands with dipoles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 G. M. Wysin

There are some particular one-dimensional models, such as the Ising-Heisenberg spin models with a variety of chain structures, which exhibit unexpected behaviors quite similar to the first and second order phase transition, which could be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-06 S. M. de Souza , Onofre Rojas

Water exhibits rich polymorphism, where more than 20 crystalline phases have been experimentally reported. Five of them are metastable and form at low temperatures by either heating amorphous ice or degassing clathrate hydrates. However,…

The classical XY model has been consistently studied since it was introduced more than six decades ago. Of particular interest has been the two-dimensional spin model's exhibition of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Brandon Willnecker , Mervlyn Moodley

We study the thermodynamic properties and the phase diagrams of a multi-spin antiferromagnetic spherical spin-glass model using the replica method. It is a two-sublattice version of the ferromagnetic spherical p-spin glass model. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-22 D. B. Liarte , C. S. O. Yokoi

We report on the realization of artificial ice using superconducting vortices in geometrically frustrated pinning arrays. This vortex ice shows two unique properties among artificial ice systems. The first comes from the possibility to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-29 J. Trastoy , M. Malnou , C. Ulysse , R. Bernard , N. Bergeal , G. Faini , J. Lesueur , J. Briatico , Javier E. Villegas

Coarsening dynamics, the canonical theory of phase ordering following a quench across a symmetry breaking phase transition, is thought to be driven by the annihilation of topological defects. Here we show that this understanding is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-09-11 L. A. Williamson , P. B. Blakie

Predicting solid-solid phase transitions remains a long-standing challenge in materials science. Solid-solid transformations underpin a wide range of functional properties critical to energy conversion, information storage, and thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Cibrán López , Joshua Ojih , Ming Hu , Josep Lluis Tamarit , Edgardo Saucedo , Claudio Cazorla

We consider an Ising model where longitudinal components of every pair of spins have antiferromagnetic interaction of the same magnitude. When subjected to a transverse magnetic field at zero temperature, the system undergoes a phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Anindita Ganguli , Subinay Dasgupta

The search for new topological materials and states of matter is presently at the forefront of quantum materials research. One powerful approach to novel topological phases beyond the thermodynamic space is to combine different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Pavel P. Shibayev , Elio J. König , Maryam Salehi , Jisoo Moon , Myung-Geun Han , Seongshik Oh

Artificial ices enable the study of geometrical frustration by design and through direct observation. However, it has proven difficult to achieve tailored long-range ordering of their diverse configurations, limiting both fundamental and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Yong-Lei Wang , Zhi-Li Xiao , Alexey Snezhko , Jing Xu , Leonidas E. Ocola , Ralu Divan , John E. Pearson , George W. Crabtree , Wai-Kwong Kwok

The spin-1 quantum Ising systems with three-spin interactions on two-dimensional triangular lattices are studied by mean-field method. The thermal variations of order parameters and phase diagrams are investigated in detail. The stable,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hui Jiang , Xiang-Mu Kong

The square ice is a canonical example of a Coulomb phase in two dimensions: Its ground state is extensively degenerate and satisfies a local constraint on the spin arrangement (the so-called ice rule). In this paper, we use a loop flip…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Johann Coraux , Nicodème Rougier , Benjamin Canals , Nicolas Rougemaille

A macroscopic square artificial spin ice, or macro-ASI, is a collection of bar magnets placed in a square lattice arrangement. Each magnet is supported by hinges that allow their mechanical rotation. Previous investigations in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 L. Scafuri , D. A. Bozhko , E. Iacocca