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Classifying phases of matter is a central problem in physics. For quantum mechanical systems, this task can be daunting owing to the exponentially large Hilbert space. Thanks to the available computing power and access to ever larger data…

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Machine learning offers an unprecedented perspective for the problem of classifying phases in condensed matter physics. We employ neural-network machine learning techniques to distinguish finite-temperature phases of the strongly correlated…

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We investigate the efficient learning of magnetic phases using artificial neural networks trained on synthetic data, combining computational simplicity with physics-informed strategies. Focusing on the diluted Ising model, which lacks an…

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Score-based generative models (SGMs) are a powerful class of generative models that exhibit remarkable empirical performance. Score-based generative modelling (SGM) consists of a ``noising'' stage, whereby a diffusion is used to gradually…

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It is a long-standing challenge to accurately and efficiently compute thermodynamic quantities of many-body systems at thermal equilibrium. The conventional methods, e.g., Markov chain Monte Carlo, require many steps to equilibrate. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-10 Shuo-Hui Li , Yao-Wen Zhang , Ding Pan

Over the past several years, there have been many studies demonstrating the ability of deep neural networks to identify phase transitions in many physical systems, notably in classical statistical physics systems. One often finds that the…

Generative diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of models in machine learning, yet a unified theoretical understanding of their operation is still developing. This paper provides an integrated perspective on generative…

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High accuracy Monte Carlo study has been performed in the modified planar Lebwohl Lasher model containing and interaction, where and are second and fourth order Legendre polynomial having three-dimensional spin. Weakly First order Nematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-01 Enakshi Guru

Detection of phase transitions is a critical task in statistical physics, traditionally pursued through analytic methods and direct numerical simulations. Recently, machine-learning techniques have emerged as promising tools in this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-19 Burak Çivitcioğlu , Rudolf A. Römer , Andreas Honecker

The matrix product structure is considered on a regular lattice in the hyperbolic plane. The phase transition of the Ising model is observed on the hyperbolic $(5, 4)$ lattice by means of the corner-transfer-matrix renormalization group…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Takatsugu Iharagi , Andrej Gendiar , Hiroshi Ueda , Tomotoshi Nishino

We consider the Ising model on the two-dimensional square lattice where on each horizontal line, called "layer", the interaction is given by a ferromagnetic Kac potential with coupling strength $J_\gamma(x,y)=\gamma J(\gamma(x-y))$, where…

Estimating the free energy, as well as other thermodynamic observables, is a key task in lattice field theories. Recently, it has been pointed out that deep generative models can be used in this context [1]. Crucially, these models allow…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Kim A. Nicoli , Christopher Anders , Lena Funcke , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Pan Kessel , Shinichi Nakajima , Paolo Stornati

We study \emph{learning-to-sample} -- a basic algorithmic task underlying generative modeling -- for Ising models, a standard testbed for algorithmic ideas in both theoretical computer science and machine learning. Given i.i.d. samples of…

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Understanding and predicting the glassy dynamics of polymers remain fundamental challenges in soft matter physics. While the Elastically Collective Nonlinear Langevin Equation (ECNLE) theory has been successful in describing relaxation…

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An extension to a high-order model for the direct isotropic/smectic-A liquid crystalline phase transition was derived to take into account thermal effects including anisotropic thermal diffusion and latent heat of phase-ordering.…

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Critical behavior of the two-dimensional generalized $XY$ model involving solely nematic-like terms of the second, third and fourth orders is studied by Monte Carlo method. We find that such a system can undergo three successive phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-24 Milan Žukovič

We combine machine-learning (ML) techniques with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and finite-size scaling (FSS) to study continuous and first-order phase transitions in Ising, Blume-Capel, and Ising-metamagnet spin models. We go beyond earlier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-04 Vasanth Kumar Babu , Rahul Pandit

The nematic-isotropic (NI) phase transition of 4-cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) was simulated using the generalized replica-exchange method (gREM) based on molecular dynamics simulations. The effective temperature is introduced in gREM,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-04 Kengo Takemoto , Yoshiki Ishii , Hitoshi Washizu , Kang Kim , Nobuyuki Matubayasi

Ensemble weather forecasts based on multiple runs of numerical weather prediction models typically show systematic errors and require post-processing to obtain reliable forecasts. Accurately modeling multivariate dependencies is crucial in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Jieyu Chen , Tim Janke , Florian Steinke , Sebastian Lerch

We use an infinite-range Maier-Saupe model, with two sets of local quadrupolar variables and restricted orientations, to investigate the global phase diagram of a coupled system of two nematic subsystems. The free energy and the equations…

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