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Disordered many-body systems exhibit a wide range of emergent phenomena across different scales. These complex behaviors can be utilized for various information processing tasks such as error correction, learning, and optimization. Despite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-04 Weishun Zhong

A new field of research is rapidly expanding at the crossroad between statistical physics, information theory and combinatorial optimization. In particular, the use of cutting edge statistical physics concepts and methods allow one to solve…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-03-28 Marc Mezard , Thierry Mora

We consider a generalization of an important class of high-dimensional inference problems, namely spiked symmetric matrix models, often used as probabilistic models for principal component analysis. Such paradigmatic models have recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jean Barbier , Galen Reeves

The aim of this review paper is to give a panoramic of the impact of spin glass theory and statistical physics in the study of the K-sat problem. The introduction of spin glass theory in the study of the random K-sat problem has indeed left…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Stefano Gogioso

Engineered infrastructure systems pose inverse problems in which hidden states, unknown parameters, and subsystem couplings must be inferred from sparse and noisy measurements. These problems are difficult because physical subsystems are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Esmaeil Ghorbani , Jürgen Hackl

It has recently been shown that one-dimensional Ising problems can have degenerate, disordered ground states (GSs) over a finite range of coupling onstants, ie, without `fine tuning'. The disorder is however of a special kind, consisting of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Jaichul Yi , Geoff S. Canright

We study the phase diagram and the algorithmic hardness of the random `locked' constraint satisfaction problems, and compare them to the commonly studied 'non-locked' problems like satisfiability of boolean formulas or graph coloring. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-09 Lenka Zdeborová , Marc Mézard

Optimization is fundamental in many areas of science, from computer science and information theory to engineering and statistical physics, as well as to biology or social sciences. It typically involves a large number of variables and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-08 Lenka Zdeborová

This lecture deals with glassy dynamics and aging in disordered systems. Special emphasis is put on dynamic mean field theory. In the first part I present some of the systems of interest, in particular spin-glasses, supercooled liquids and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz Horner

We show that topological phases include disordered materials if the underlying invariant is interpreted as originating from coarse geometry. This coarse geometric framework, grounded in physical principles, offers a natural setting for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-08 Christoph S. Setescak , Caio Lewenkopf , Matthias Ludewig

Understanding the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of dissipative quantum systems, where dissipation and decoherence coexist with unitary dynamics, is an enormous challenge with immense rewards. Often, the only realistic approach is to forgo a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-06 Lucas Sá

We study the decoherence dynamics of dipole-coupled two-level quantum systems in Ramsey-type experiments. We focus on large networks of two-level systems, confined to two spatial dimensions and with positional disorder giving rise to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-15 M. P. Kwasigroch , N. R. Cooper

This key-issues review is a plea for a new focus on simpler and more realistic models of glass-forming fluids. It seems to me that we have too often been led astray by sophisticated mathematical models that beautifully capture some of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. S. Langer

We review the occurrence of the patterns of the onset of chaos in low-dimensional nonlinear dissipative systems in leading topics of condensed matter physics and complex systems of various disciplines. We consider the dynamics associated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Carlos Velarde , Alberto Robledo

Cognitive processes undergo various fluctuations and transient states across different temporal scales. Superstatistics are emerging as a flexible framework for incorporating such non-stationary dynamics into existing cognitive model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-02 Lukas Schumacher , Martin Schnuerch , Andreas Voss , Stefan T. Radev

Similarities between fragile glasses and spin glasses (SG) suggest the study of frustrated spin model to understand the complex dynamics of glasses above the glass transition. We consider a frustrated spin model with Ising spins and s-state…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Giancarlo Franzese , Antonio Coniglio

A one-dimensional quantum system with off diagonal disorder, consisting of a sample of conducting regions randomly interspersed within potential barriers is considered. Results mainly concerning the large $N$ limit are presented. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-12-06 Tommaso Vanzan , Lamberto Rondoni

Symmetries are a key tool in understanding quantum systems, and, among many other things, can be exploited to increase the efficiency of numerical simulations of quantum dynamics. Disordered systems usually feature reduced symmetries and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Mirco Erpelding , Adrian Braemer , Martin Gärttner

Low rank tensor decompositions are a powerful tool for learning generative models, and uniqueness results give them a significant advantage over matrix decomposition methods. However, tensors pose significant algorithmic challenges and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Ankur Moitra , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Motivated by experiments on sheared suspensions that show a transition between ordered and disordered phases, we here study the long-time behavior of a sheared and overdamped 2-d system of particles interacting by repulsive forces. As a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-06 Jens C. Pfeifer , Tobias Bischoff , Georg Ehlers , Bruno Eckhardt