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p-spin glasses, characterized by frustrated many-body interactions beyond the conventional pairwise case (p>2), are prototypical disordered systems whose ground-state search is NP-hard and computationally prohibitive for large instances.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-19 Li Zeng , Mutian Shen , Tianle Pu , Zohar Nussinov , Qing Feng , Chao Chen , Zhong Liu , Changjun Fan

We consider whether it is possible to find ground states of frustrated spin systems by solving them locally. Using spin glass physics and Imry-Ma arguments in addition to numerical benchmarks we quantify the power of such local solution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-01-12 Ilia Zintchenko , Matthew B. Hastings , Matthias Troyer

Finding an exact ground state of a three-dimensional (3D) Ising spin glass is proven to be an NP-hard problem (i.e., at least as hard as any problem in the nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP) class). Given validity of the exponential time…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-30 Hao Zhang , Alex Kamenev

Due to an extremely rugged structure of the free energy landscape, the determination of spin-glass ground states is among the hardest known optimization problems, found to be NP-hard in the most general case. Owing to the specific structure…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-11-10 Martin Weigel

A new approach to combinatorial optimization based on systematic move-class deflation is proposed. The algorithm combines heuristics of genetic algorithms and simulated annealing, and is mainly entropy-driven. It is tested on two problems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reimer Kuehn , Yu-Cheng Lin , Gerhard Poeppel

We investigate the performance of the recently proposed stationary Fokker-Planck sampling method considering a combinatorial optimization problem from statistical physics. The algorithmic procedure relies upon the numerical solution of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Melchert , A. K. Hartmann

In Changjun Fan et al. [Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36363-w (2023)], the authors present a deep reinforced learning approach to augment combinatorial optimization heuristics. In particular, they present results…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-22 Stefan Boettcher

Spin glasses occupy a unique place in condensed matter: they freeze collectively while remaining struc-turally disordered, and they exhibit slow, history-dependent dynamics that reflect an exceptionally rug-ged free-energy landscape. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-25 Naeimeh Tahriri , Vahid Mahdikhah , Jahanfar Abouie , Daryoosh Vashaee

A spin glass is a diluted magnetic material in which the magnetic moments are randomly interacting, with a huge number of metastable states which prevent reaching equilibrium. Spin-glass models are conceptually simple, but require very…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-03 Eric Vincent

As spin glass materials have extremely slow dynamics, devious numerical methods are needed to study low-temperature states. A simple and fast optimization version of the classical Kasteleyn treatment of the Ising model is described and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-28 Creighton K. Thomas , A. Alan Middleton

We show several calculations to identify the critical point in the ground state in random spin systems including spin glasses on the basis of the duality analysis. The duality analysis is a profound method to obtain the precise location of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-21 Masayuki Ohzeki

We describe a numerical algorithm for computing spin glass ground states with a high level of reliability. The method uses a population based search and applies optimization on multiple scales. Benchmarks are given leading to estimates of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Jerome Houdayer , Olivier C. Martin

The Ising spin glass in two dimensions exhibits rich behavior with subtle differences in the scaling for different coupling distributions. We use recently developed mappings to graph-theoretic problems together with highly efficient…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-02 Hamid Khoshbakht , Martin Weigel

Computing the ground state of Ising spin-glass models with p-spin interactions is, in general, an NP-hard problem. In this work we show that unlike in the case of the standard Ising spin glass with two-spin interactions, computing ground…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Creighton K. Thomas , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Combinatorial optimization algorithms which compute exact ground state configurations in disordered magnets are seen to exhibit critical slowing down at zero temperature phase transitions. Using arguments based on the physical picture of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Alan Middleton

We investigate numerically disorder chaos in spin glasses, i.e. the sensitivity of the ground state to small changes of the random couplings. Our study focuses on the Edwards-Anderson model in d=1,2,3 and in mean-field. We find that in all…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Florent Krzakala , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Variational neural network models have achieved remarkable success in solving ground-state problems of quantum many-body systems. However, addressing classical and quantum spin glasses remains challenging, as disorder and energy frustration…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-18 Luca Leone , Arka Dutta , Markus Heyl , Enrico Prati , Pietro Torta

We propose a general learning algorithm for solving optimization problems, based on a simple strategy of trial and adaptation. The algorithm maintains a probability distribution of possible solutions (configurations), which is updated…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-30 Kan Chen

We analyze the zero-temperature behavior of the XY Edwards-Anderson spin glass model on a square lattice. A newly developed algorithm combining exact ground-state computations for Ising variables embedded into the planar spins with a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Weigel , Michel J. P. Gingras

In this article, we obtain the exact solutions for bound states of tilted anisotropic Dirac materials under the action of external electric and magnetic fields with translational symmetry. In order to solve the eigenvalue equation that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Julio A. Mojica-Zárate , Daniel O-Campa , Erik Díaz-Bautista
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