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Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in using machine learning to predict and identify phase transitions in various systems. Here we adopt convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to study the phase transitions of Vicsek model,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Tingting Xue , Xu Li , Xiaosong Chen , Li Chen , Zhangang Han

The vast complexity is a daunting property of generic quantum states that poses a significant challenge for theoretical treatment, especially in non-equilibrium setups. Therefore, it is vital to recognize states which are locally less…

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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-known linear dimension-reduction method that has been widely used in data analysis and modeling. It is an unsupervised learning technique that identifies a suitable linear subspace for the input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-10 Shaojie Xu , Joel Vaughan , Jie Chen , Agus Sudjianto , Vijayan Nair

By combining different ideas, a general and efficient protocol to deal with discontinuous phase transitions at low temperatures is proposed. For small $T$'s, it is possible to derive a generic analytic expression for appropriate order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. E. Fiore , M. G. E. da Luz

For performing regression tasks involved in various physics problems, enhancing the precision or equivalently reducing the uncertainty of regression results is undoubtedly one of the central goals. Here, somewhat surprisingly, we find that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Wei-Chen Guo , Liang He

After decades of progress and effort, obtaining a phase diagram for a strongly-correlated topological system still remains a challenge. Although in principle one could turn to Wilson loops and long-range entanglement, evaluating these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-14 Yi Zhang , Roger G. Melko , Eun-Ah Kim

The phase transition in the q-state Potts model with homogeneous ferromagnetic couplings is strongly first order for large q, while is rounded in the presence of quenched disorder. Here we study this phenomenon on different two-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. T. Mercaldo , J-Ch. Anglès d'Auriac , F. Iglói

Phase estimation, due to Kitaev [arXiv'95], is one of the most fundamental subroutines in quantum computing. In the basic scenario, one is given black-box access to a unitary $U$, and an eigenstate $\lvert \psi \rangle$ of $U$ with unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Nikhil S. Mande , Ronald de Wolf

This work introduces an approach rooted in quantum thermodynamics to enhance sampling efficiency in quantum machine learning (QML). We propose conceptualizing quantum supervised learning as a thermodynamic cooling process. Building on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones , Daniel K. Park

We apply a replica inference based Potts model method to unsupervised image segmentation on multiple scales. This approach was inspired by the statistical mechanics problem of "community detection" and its phase diagram. Specifically, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dandan Hu , Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

I review some numerical ways to determine the parameters of systems close to a first order phase transition point: energy and specific heat of the coexisting phases and interface tension. Numerical examples are given for the 2-d $q$ states…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Billoire

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying deep learning models in safety critical applications, yet no consensus exists on which UQ method performs best across different data modalities and distribution shifts. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Rahul D Ray , Utkarsh Srivastava

Since its introduction, the Potts model has gained widespread popularity across various fields due to its diverse applications. Even minor advancements in this model continue to captivate scientists worldwide, and small modifications often…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Hasan Akin

Temporal-Difference (TD) learning methods, such as Q-Learning, have proven effective at learning a policy to perform control tasks. One issue with methods like Q-Learning is that the value update introduces bias when predicting the TD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Litian Liang , Yaosheng Xu , Stephen McAleer , Dailin Hu , Alexander Ihler , Pieter Abbeel , Roy Fox

Quantum phase transitions in many-body systems are fundamentally characterized by complex correlation structures, which pose computational challenges for conventional methods in large systems. To address this, we propose a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jin-Long Chen , Xin Li , Zhang-Qi Yin

We report an experimental demonstration of a machine learning approach to identify exotic topological phases, with a focus on the three-dimensional chiral topological insulators. We show that the convolutional neural networks---a class of…

The continuous effort towards topological quantum devices calls for an efficient and non-invasive method to assess the conformity of components in different topological phases. Here, we show that machine learning paves the way towards…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-24 Marcello D. Caio , Marco Caccin , Paul Baireuther , Timo Hyart , Michel Fruchart

Quantum process tomography (QPT) methods aim at identifying a given quantum process. The present paper focuses on the estimation of a unitary process. This class is of particular interest because quantum mechanics postulates that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 François Verdeil , Yannick Deville

We derive the phase diagram of the one-dimensional three-state Potts model with an additional mean-field interaction in the canonical ensemble. The free energy is obtained by mapping the model onto the spin-$1$ Blume-Emery-Griffiths model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-24 Alessandro Campa , Vahan Hovhannisyan , Stefano Ruffo , Andrea Trombettoni

Using simulations at multiple imaginary chemical potentials for $(2+1)$-flavor QCD, we construct multi-point Pad\'e approximants. We determine the singularties of the Pad\'e approximants and demonstrate that they are consistent with the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-07-09 Jishnu Goswami , D. A. Clarke , P. Dimopoulos , F. Di Renzo , C. Schmidt , S. Singh , K. Zambello