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We present some new theoretical and computational results for the stationary points of bulk systems. First we demonstrate how the potential energy surface can be partitioned into catchment basins associated with every stationary point using…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 David J. Wales , Jonathan P. K. Doye

Complex phenomena in engineering and the sciences are often modeled with computationally intensive feed-forward simulations for which a tractable analytic likelihood does not exist. In these cases, it is sometimes necessary to estimate an…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-18 Niccolò Dalmasso , Ann B. Lee , Rafael Izbicki , Taylor Pospisil , Ilmun Kim , Chieh-An Lin

We construct classical algorithms computing an approximation of the ground state energy of an arbitrary $k$-local Hamiltonian acting on $n$ qubits. We first consider the setting where a good ``guiding state'' is available, which is the main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 François Le Gall

Quantum program generation demands a level of precision that may not be compatible with the statistical reasoning carried out in the inference of large language models (LLMs). Hallucinations are mathematically inevitable and not addressable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Xinliang Chia , William Knottenbelt , Yudong Cao

The certification of intrinsic randomness is foundational to quantum information theory and central in many practical applications thereof, such as in the generation of unquestionably random numbers and in cryptographic protocols.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Maria Ciudad Alañón , Daniel Centeno , Andrew Watford , Elie Wolfe

This paper is devoted to the estimation of a vector parametrizing an energy function associated to some "Nearest-Neighbours" Gibbs point process, via the pseudo-likelihood method. We present some convergence results concerning this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jean-Michel Billiot , Jean-François Coeurjolly , Rémy Drouilhet

We study random points on the real line generated by the eigenvalues in unitary invariant random matrix ensembles or by more general repulsive particle systems. As the number of points tends to infinity, we prove convergence of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Kristina Schubert , Martin Venker

Matrix rank minimization problem is in general NP-hard. The nuclear norm is used to substitute the rank function in many recent studies. Nevertheless, the nuclear norm approximation adds all singular values together and the approximation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng

An exact mapping is established between the $c\geq25$ Liouville field theory (LFT) and the Gibbs measure statistics of a thermal particle in a 2D Gaussian Free Field plus a logarithmic confining potential. The probability distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-16 Xiangyu Cao , Pierre Le Doussal , Alberto Rosso , Raoul Santachiara

Spectral clustering is a powerful unsupervised machine learning algorithm for clustering data with non convex or nested structures. With roots in graph theory, it uses the spectral properties of the Laplacian matrix to project the data in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Iordanis Kerenidis , Jonas Landman

A detailed mathematical proof is given that the energy spectrum of a non-relativistic quantum particle in multi-dimensional Euclidean space under the influence of suitable random potentials has almost surely a pure-point component. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner Fischer , Hajo Leschke , Peter Mueller

This paper studies a method, which has been proposed in the Physics literature by [8, 7, 10], for estimating the quasi-stationary distribution. In contrast to existing methods in eigenvector estimation, the method eliminates the need for…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn , Shuheng Zheng

We consider a stationary process (with either discrete or continuous time) and find an adaptive approximating stationary process combining approximation quality and supplementary good properties that can be interpreted as additional…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Zakhar Kabluchko , Mikhail Lifshits

The generation of certifiable randomness is one of the most promising applications of quantum technologies. Furthermore, the intrinsic non-locality of quantum correlations allow us to certify randomness in a device-independent way, i.e. one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Brian Coyle , Elham Kashefi , Matty Hoban

Working within the familiar local potential approximation, and concentrating on the example of a single scalar field in three dimensions, we show that the commonly used approximation method of identifying the total and background fields,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-21 I. Hamzaan Bridle , Juergen A. Dietz , Tim R. Morris

Particle filters are broadly used to approximate posterior distributions of hidden states in state-space models by means of sets of weighted particles. While the convergence of the filter is guaranteed when the number of particles tends to…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-01 Víctor Elvira , Joaquín Míguez , Petar M. Djurić

Particle-number projection within the Lipkin-Nogami (LN) method is applied to the self-consistent quasiparticle random-phase approximation (SCQRPA), which is tested in an exactly solvable multi-level pairing model. The SCQRPA equations are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Nguyen Quang Hung , Nguyen Dinh Dang

Energies with high-order non-submodular interactions have been shown to be very useful in vision due to their high modeling power. Optimization of such energies, however, is generally NP-hard. A naive approach that works for small problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Carl Olsson , Johannes Ulen , Yuri Boykov , Vladimir Kolmogorov

Aligning partially overlapping point sets where there is no prior information about the value of the transformation is a challenging problem in computer vision. To achieve this goal, we first reduce the objective of the robust point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Wei Lian , WangMeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Our work presents a new iterative scheme to approximate the fixed points of nonexpansive mapping. The proposed algorithm is constructed to enhance convergence efficiency while preserving theoretical robustness. Under appropriate assumptions…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Nida Izhar Mallick , Izhar Uddin
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