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The area of Machine learning (ML) has seen exceptional growth in recent years. Successful implementation of ML methods in various branches of physics has led to new insights. These methods have been shown to classify phases in condensed…

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With the recent developments in machine learning, Carrasquilla and Melko have proposed a paradigm that is complementary to the conventional approach for the study of spin models. As an alternative to investigating the thermal average of…

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Using the technique of supervised neural networks (NN), we study the phase transitions of two-dimensional (2D) 6- and 8-state clock models on the square lattice. The employed NN has only one input layer, one hidden layer of 2 neurons, and…

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Topological phase transitions, which do not adhere to Landau's phenomenological model (i.e. a spontaneous symmetry breaking process and vanishing local order parameters) have been actively researched in condensed matter physics. Machine…

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Localized topological defects inherently possess a multiscale character. While their microstructure configuration depends on the specific physical system, their topological features and mutual interactions can be described on the macroscale…

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As a simplified model of randomly pinned vortex lattices or charge-density waves, we study the random-field XY model on square ($d=2$) and simple cubic ($d=3$) lattices. We verify in Monte Carlo simulations, that the average spacing between…

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Machine-learning driven models have proven to be powerful tools for the identification of phases of matter. In particular, unsupervised methods hold the promise to help discover new phases of matter without the need for any prior…

Machine learning offers an unprecedented perspective for the problem of classifying phases in condensed matter physics. We employ neural-network machine learning techniques to distinguish finite-temperature phases of the strongly correlated…

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In this Letter we supervisedly train neural networks to distinguish different topological phases in the context of topological band insulators. After training with Hamiltonians of one-dimensional insulators with chiral symmetry, the neural…

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Machine learning has become a useful tool for studying phase transitions in statistical systems.For the two-dimensional classical XY model, however, the topological character of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-02 Qingao Fan , Xu Li , Tingting Xue

This work aims at the goal whether the artificial intelligence can recognize phase transition without the prior human knowledge. If this becomes successful, it can be applied to, for instance, analyze data from quantum simulation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-01 Ce Wang , Hui Zhai

We apply modern methods in computational topology to the task of discovering and characterizing phase transitions. As illustrations, we apply our method to four two-dimensional lattice spin models: the Ising, square ice, XY, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Alex Cole , Gregory J. Loges , Gary Shiu

We investigate the advantages of machine learning techniques to recognize the dynamics of topological objects in quantum field theories. We consider the compact U(1) gauge theory in three spacetime dimensions as the simplest example of a…

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We apply variational tensor-network methods for simulating the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in the classical two-dimensional XY model. In particular, using uniform matrix product states (MPS) with non-abelian O(2) symmetry, we…

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This paper presents a systematic study of the application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as an efficient and versatile tool for the analysis of critical and low-temperature phase states in spin system models. The problem of…

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In tensor network representation, the partition function of a generalized two-dimensional XY spin model with topological integer and half-integer vortex excitations is mapped to a tensor product of one-dimensional quantum transfer operator,…

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Detection of phase transitions is a critical task in statistical physics, traditionally pursued through analytic methods and direct numerical simulations. Recently, machine-learning techniques have emerged as promising tools in this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-19 Burak Çivitcioğlu , Rudolf A. Römer , Andreas Honecker

We employ a convolutional neural network to explore the distinct phases in random spin systems with the aim to understand the specific features that the neural network chooses to identify the phases. With the energy spectrum normalized to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-24 Rubah Kausar , Wen-Jia Rao , Xin Wan

Polaritonic lattices offer a unique testbed for studying nonlinear driven-dissipative physics. They show qualitative changes of a steady state as a function of system parameters, which resemble non-equilibrium phase transitions. Unlike…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 D. Zvyagintseva , H. Sigurdsson , V. K. Kozin , I. Iorsh , I. A. Shelykh , V. Ulyantsev , O. Kyriienko

We examine the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class and show that essential scaling at this type of phase transition is not self-consistent unless multiplicative logarithmic corrections are included. In the case of specific heat these…

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