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Transfer learning is a popular paradigm for utilizing existing knowledge from previous learning tasks to improve the performance of new ones. It has enjoyed numerous empirical successes and inspired a growing number of theoretical studies.…

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We propose a new Monte Carlo method for efficiently sampling trajectories with fixed initial and final conditions in a system with discrete degrees of freedom. The method can be applied to any stochastic process with local interactions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-30 Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Francesco Zamponi

We construct two spin models on lattices (both two and three-dimensional) to study the capability of quantum computational power as a function of temperature and the system parameter. There exists a finite region in the phase diagram such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-19 Tzu-Chieh Wei , Ying Li , Leong Chuan Kwek

In this paper we apply a scaling invariance analysis to reduce a class of parabolic moving boundary problems to free boundary problems governed by ordinary differential equations. As well known free boundary problems are always non-linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Riccardo Fazio

This paper proposes a new methodology to maximize the feasible set of power injections and cross-border power transfers in meshed multi-area power systems. The approach used polyhedral computation schemes and is an extension to the classic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Alexander Fuchs , Marc Scherer , Göran Andersson

In this paper we explore the practical use of the corner transfer matrix and its higher-dimensional generalization, the corner tensor, to develop tensor network algorithms for the classical simulation of quantum lattice systems of infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-11 Roman Orus

Statistical mechanics is a powerful framework for analyzing optimization yielding analytical results for matching, optimal transport, and other combinatorial problems. However, these methods typically target the zero-temperature limit,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-18 Riccardo Piombo , Lorenzo Buffa , Dario Mazzilli , Aurelio Patelli

We provide a complete thermodynamic solution of a 1D hopping model in the presence of a random potential by obtaining the density of states. Since the partition function is related to the density of states by a Laplace transform, the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Gelio Alves , Yi-Kuo Yu

A method is proposed for exactly calculating the partition function of a rectangular Ising lattice with the presence of a uniform external field. This approach is based on the method of the transfer matrix developed about seventy years ago…

General Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 C. B. Yang

One of the challenging problems in the condensed matter physics is to understand the quantum many-body systems, especially, their physical mechanisms behind. Since there are only a few complete analytical solutions of these systems, several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-27 Jozef Genzor , Tomotoshi Nishino , Andrej Gendiar

We study a class of statistical systems which simulate 3D gonihedric system on euclidean lattice. We have found the exact partition function of the 3D-model and the corresponding critical indices analysing the transfer matrix…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Jonsson , G. K. Savvidy

Entropy can signify different things: For instance, heat transfer in thermodynamics or a measure of information in data analysis. Many entropies have been introduced and it can be difficult to ascertain their different importance and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , Piergiulio Tempesta

Quantum graphs have recently been introduced as model systems to study the spectral statistics of linear wave problems with chaotic classical limits. It is proposed here to generalise this approach by considering arbitrary, directed graphs…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gregor Tanner

While true phase transitions are forbidden in one-dimensional systems with short-range interactions, several models have recently been shown to exhibit sharp yet analytic thermodynamic anomalies that mimic thermal phase transitions. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Onofre Rojas

This article is concerned with a mathematical tool, the Associated Transfer Matrix T, which proves useful in the study of a wide class of physical problems involving multilayer heterostructures. General properties of linear, second order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Perez-Alvarez , F. Garcia-Moliner

Transparent boundary conditions for the time-dependent Schrodinger equation are implemented using the R-matrix method. The employed scattering formalism is suitable for describing open quantum systems and provides the framework for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 G. A. Nemnes , Alexandra Palici , A. Manolescu

We derive some new structural results for the transfer matrix of square-lattice Potts models with free and cylindrical boundary conditions. In particular, we obtain explicit closed-form expressions for the dominant (at large |q|) diagonal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-08 Jesus Salas , Alan D. Sokal

We consider integrable quantum spin chains with competing interactions. We apply the quantum transfer matrix approach to these spin chains. This allowed us to derive a set of non-linear integral equations for the thermodynamics of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-05 T. S. Tavares , G. A. P. Ribeiro

We introduce a numerical tensor-network method to compute the statistics of the charge transferred across an interface partitioning an interacting one-dimensional many-body lattice system with $U(1)$ symmetry. Our approach is based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Mark T. Mitchison

In this paper, the transfer matrix technique using the $k$-matching vector is developed to compute the number of $k$-matchings in an arbitrary graph which can be constructed by successive amalgamations over sets of cardinality two. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Simon Grad , Sandi Klavžar