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Determining the universality class of a system exhibiting critical phenomena is one of the central problems in physics. There are several methods to determine this universality class from data. As methods performing collapse plots onto…

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Inverse problems arise in situations where data is available, but the underlying model is not. It can therefore be necessary to infer the parameters of the latter starting from the former. Statistical mechanics offers a toolbox of…

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The potential for complex systems to exhibit tipping points in which an equilibrium state undergoes a sudden and often irreversible shift is well established, but prediction of these events using standard forecast modeling techniques is…

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Machine learning has been successfully used to study phase transitions. One of the most popular approaches to identifying critical points from data without prior knowledge of the underlying phases is the learning-by-confusion scheme. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Julian Arnold , Frank Schäfer , Niels Lörch

We study graphical representations for two related models. The first model is the transverse field quantum Ising model, an extension of the original Ising model which was introduced by Lieb, Schultz and Mattis in the 1960's. The second…

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We extend the Prometheus framework for unsupervised phase transition discovery from two-dimensional classical systems to three-dimensional classical systems and quantum many-body systems. Building upon preliminary observations from a 2D…

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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…

The Potts model is one of the most popular spin models of statistical physics. The prevailing majority of work done so far corresponds to the lattice version of the model. However, many natural or man-made systems are much better described…

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Unsupervised learning is a discipline of machine learning which aims at discovering patterns in big data sets or classifying the data into several categories without being trained explicitly. We show that unsupervised learning techniques…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-04 Lei Wang

Exploration of the QCD phase diagram and critical point is one of the main goals in current relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The QCD critical point is expected to belong to a three-dimensional (3D) Ising universality class. Machine…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-02 Xiaobing Li , Ranran Guo , Yu Zhou , Kangning Liu , Jia Zhao , Fen Long , Yuanfang Wu , Zhiming Li

We employ unsupervised machine learning techniques to learn latent parameters which best describe states of the two-dimensional Ising model and the three-dimensional XY model. These methods range from principal component analysis to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Sebastian Johann Wetzel

The detection of phase transitions is a central task in many-body physics. To automate this process, the task can be phrased as a classification problem. Classification problems can be approached in two fundamentally distinct ways: through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-03 Difei Zhang , Frank Schäfer , Julian Arnold

We investigate the connection between the supervised learning of the binary phase classification in the ferromagnetic Ising model and the standard finite-size-scaling theory of the second-order phase transition. Proposing a minimal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-18 Dongkyu Kim , Dong-Hee Kim

We investigate quantum phase transitions in the transverse field Ising chain with algebraically decaying long-range (LR) antiferromagnetic interactions using the variational Monte Carlo method with the restricted Boltzmann machine employed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-14 Jicheol Kim , Dongkyu Kim , Dong-Hee Kim

An analysis is presented of the phase transition of the quantum Ising model with transverse field on the d-dimensional hypercubic lattice. It is shown that there is a unique sharp transition. The value of the critical point is calculated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. E. Björnberg , G. R. Grimmett

Conditional probability distributions describe the effect of learning an initially unknown classical state through Bayesian inference. Here we demonstrate the existence of a \textit{learning transition}, having signatures in the long…

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We consider the ground-state properties of the s=1/2 Ising chain in a transverse field which varies regularly along the chain having a period of alternation 2. Such a model, similarly to its uniform counterpart, exhibits quantum phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg Derzhko , Taras Krokhmalskii

The critical phenomena of two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic $q$-state Potts model on the square lattice with $q=2,3,4,5$ and 6 are investigated using the technique of supervised neural network (NN). Unlike the conventional NN…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-26 Shang-Wei Li , Kai-Wei Huang , Chien-Ting Chen , Fu-Jiun Jiang

The application of machine learning in the study of phase transitions has achieved remarkable success in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems. It is widely recognized that unsupervised learning can retrieve phase transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Dian Xu , Shanshan Wang , Weibing Deng , Feng Gao , Wei Li , Jianmin Shen

Employing a deep convolutional neural network (deep CNN) trained on spin configurations of the 2D Ising model and the temperatures, we examine whether the deep CNN can detect the phase transition of the 2D $q$-state Potts model. To this…

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