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The phase transition in the mean-field XY model is shown analytically to be related to a topological change in its configuration space. Such a topology change is completely described by means of Morse theory allowing a computation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lapo Casetti , E. G. D. Cohen , Marco Pettini

We study a random matrix model for the statistical properties of the purity of a bipartite quantum system at a finite (fictitious) temperature. This enables us to write the generating function for the cumulants, for both balanced and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-30 P. Facchi , U. Marzolino , G. Parisi , S. Pascazio , A. Scardicchio

In quantum many-body systems, characterizing topological phase transitions typically requires complex many-body topological invariants, which are costly to compute and measure. Inspired by quantum reservoir computing, we propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Li Xin , Da Zhang , Zhang-Qi Yin

We propose a systematic methodology to identify the topological phase transition through a self-supervised machine learning model, which is trained to correlate system parameters to the non-local observables in time-of-flight experiments of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-01 Chi-Ting Ho , Daw-Wei Wang

The use of machine learning algorithms to investigate phase transitions in physical systems is a valuable way to better understand the characteristics of these systems. Neural networks have been used to extract information of phases and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Rodrigo Carmo Terin , Zochil González Arenas , Roberto Santana

The application of state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to statistical physic problems has seen a surge of interest for their ability to discriminate phases of matter by extracting essential features in the many-body wavefunction or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-04 Peter Broecker , Fakher F. Assaad , Simon Trebst

At low temperature a thermodynamic system undergoes a phase transition when a physical parameter passes through a singularity point of the free energy, corresponding to formation of a new order. At high temperature the thermal fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-17 Bo-Bo Wei , Shao-Wen Chen , Hoi-Chun Po , Ren-Bao Liu

Quantum walks are versatile simulators of topological phases and phase transitions as observed in condensed matter physics. Here, we utilize a step dependent coin in quantum walks and investigate what topological phases we can simulate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 S. Panahiyan , S. Fritzsche

A new formulation of statistical mechanics is put forward according to which a random variable characterizing a macroscopic body is postulated to be infinitely divisible. It leads to a parametric representation of partition function of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 E. D. Belokolos

We apply the Wigner function formalism from quantum optics via two approaches, Wootters' discrete Wigner function and the generalized Wigner function, to detect quantum phase transitions in critical spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ systems. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Zakaria Mzaouali , Steve Campbell , Morad El Baz

Quantum phase transitions occur when the ground state of a quantum system undergoes a qualitative change when an external control parameter reaches a critical value. Here, we demonstrate a technique for studying quantum systems undergoing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-14 Jingfu Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Nageswaran Rajendran , Dieter Suter

In this article, we provide theoretical support for the use of geometric measures of nonclassicality as a general tool to identify quantum phase transitions. We argue that divergences in the susceptibility of any geometric measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Kok Chuan Tan

The classification of phases and the detection of phase transitions are central and challenging tasks in diverse fields. Within physics, it relies on the identification of order parameters and the analysis of singularities in the free…

In recent years, machine learning has been adopted to complex networks, but most existing works concern about the structural properties. To use machine learning to detect phase transitions and accurately identify the critical transition…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-08 Qi Ni , Ming Tang , Ying Liu , Ying-Cheng Lai

We study topological properties of phase transition points of topological quantum phase transitions by assigning a topological invariant defined on a closed circle or surface surrounding the phase transition point in the parameter space of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-13 Linhu Li , Shu Chen

We describe how to characterize dynamical phase transitions in open quantum systems from a purely dynamical perspective, namely, through the statistical behavior of quantum jump trajectories. This approach goes beyond considering only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-26 Igor Lesanovsky , Merlijn van Horssen , Madalin Guta , Juan P. Garrahan

Certain geometric properties of submanifolds of configuration space are numerically investigated for classical lattice phi^4 models in one and two dimensions. Peculiar behaviors of the computed geometric quantities are found only in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roberto Franzosi , Lapo Casetti , Lionel Spinelli , Marco Pettini

Experimental quantum simulators have become large and complex enough that discovering new physics from the huge amount of measurement data can be quite challenging, especially when little theoretical understanding of the simulated model is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Alexander Lidiak , Zhexuan Gong

We consider a system of clusters made of elementary building blocks, monomers, and evolving via collisions between diffusing monomers and immobile composite clusters. In our model, the cluster-monomer collision can lead to the attachment of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 P. L. Krapivsky , W. Otieno , N. V. Brilliantov

The study of phase transitions using data-driven approaches is challenging, especially when little prior knowledge of the system is available. Topological data analysis is an emerging framework for characterizing the shape of data and has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Quoc Hoan Tran , Mark Chen , Yoshihiko Hasegawa