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In many mean-field glassy systems, the low-temperature Gibbs measure is dominated by exponentially many metastable states. We analyze the evolution of the metastable states as temperature changes adiabatically in the solvable case of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-09 YiFan Sun , Andrea Crisanti , Florent Krzakala , Luca Leuzzi , Lenka Zdeborová

The Gibbs distribution universally characterizes states of thermal equilibrium. In order to extend the Gibbs distribution to non-equilibrium steady states, one must relate the self-information $\mathcal{I}(x) = -\log(P_\text{ss}(x))$ of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-04 Nahuel Freitas , Massimiliano Esposito

Infinite-range spin-glass models with Levy-distributed interactions show a freezing transition similar to disordered spin systems on finite connectivity random graphs. It is shown that despite diverging moments of the local field…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Engel

In this article we propose a novel method for sampling from Gibbs distributions of the form $\pi(x)\propto\exp(-U(x))$ with a potential $U(x)$. In particular, inspired by diffusion models we propose to consider a sequence $(\pi^{t_k})_k$ of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Andreas Habring , Alexander Falk , Thomas Pock

We propose two efficient algorithms for configurational sampling of systems with rough energy landscape. The first one is a new method for the determination of the multicanonical weight factor. In this method a short replica-exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuji Sugita , Yuko Okamoto

The flexible profile approach proposed earlier to create CTM (compact or reduced order thermal models) is extended to cover the area of conjugate heat transfer. The flexible profile approach is a methodology that allows building a highly…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 M. -N. Sabry

Estimating thermal expectation values of quantum many-body systems is a central challenge in physics, chemistry, and materials science. Standard quantum Gibbs sampling protocols address this task by preparing the Gibbs state from scratch…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hongrui Chen , Jiaqing Jiang , Bowen Li , Lexing Ying

Integrable systems offer rare examples of solvable many-body problems in the quantum world. Due to the fine-tuned structure, their realization in nature and experiment is never completely accurate, therefore effects of integrability are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-24 Iris Ulčakar , Zala Lenarčič

We introduce a propagation-based approach to thermal state simulation by adapting Pauli and Majorana propagation to imaginary-time evolution in the Schr\"odinger picture. Our key observation is that high-temperature states can be sparse in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Manuel S. Rudolph , Armando Angrisani , Andrew Wright , Iwo Sanderski , Ricard Puig , Zoë Holmes

We introduce a tensor network method for approximating thermal equilibrium states of quantum many-body systems at low temperatures. Whereas the usual approach starts from infinite temperature and evolves the state in imaginary time (toward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Denise Cocchiarella , Mari Carmen Bañuls

We present a control scheme for quantum systems coupled to a thermal bath. We demonstrate state-to-state control between two Gibbs states. This scheme can be used to accelerate thermalization and cool the open system. Starting from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Roie Dann , Ander Tobalina , Ronnie Kosloff

Bayesian mixture models are widely applied for unsupervised learning and exploratory data analysis. Markov chain Monte Carlo based on Gibbs sampling and split-merge moves are widely used for inference in these models. However, both methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-03 Tue Herlau , Morten Mørup , Yee Whye Teh , Mikkel N. Schmidt

Inference for belief networks using Gibbs sampling produces a distribution for unobserved variables that differs from the correct distribution by a (usually) unknown error, since convergence to the right distribution occurs only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Michael Harvey , Radford M. Neal

We discuss the theory and implementation of the finite temperature coupled cluster singles and doubles (FT-CCSD) method including the equations necessary for an efficient implementation of response properties. Numerical aspects of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Alec F. White , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We reconsider the non-equilibrium dynamics of closed quantum systems. In particular we focus on the thermalization of integrable systems. Here we show how the generalized Gibbs Ensemble (GGE) can be constructed as the best approximation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Dries Sels , Michiel Wouters

We apply a recently developed adaptive algorithm that systematically improves the efficiency of parallel tempering or replica exchange methods in the numerical simulation of small proteins. Feedback iterations allow us to identify an…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Simon Trebst , Matthias Troyer , Ulrich H. E. Hansmann

We present an adaptive multi-GPU Exchange Monte Carlo method designed for the simulation of the 3D Random Field Model. The algorithm design is based on a two-level parallelization scheme that allows the method to scale its performance in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 C. A. Navarro , Wei Huang , Youjin Deng

We propose a method based on deep reinforcement learning that efficiently prepares a quantum many-body pure state in thermal or prethermal equilibrium. The main physical intuition underlying the method is that the information on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Shotaro Z. Baba , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

A general procedure of average-case performance evaluation for population dynamics such as genetic algorithms (GAs) is proposed and its validity is numerically examined. We introduce a learning algorithm of Gibbs distributions from training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-04-22 Manabu Kitagata , Jun-ichi Inoue

In this paper we discuss how partial knowledge of the density of states for a model can be used to give good approximations of the energy distributions in a given temperature range. From these distributions one can then obtain the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-29 P. H. Lundow , K. Markström