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Energy minimization of Ising spin-glasses has played a central role in statistical and solid-state physics, facilitating studies of phase transitions and magnetism. Recent proposals suggest using Ising spin-glasses for non-traditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Hector J. Garcia , Igor L. Markov

We introduce a variational method for the approximation of ground states of strongly interacting spin systems in arbitrary geometries and spatial dimensions. The approach is based on weighted graph states and superpositions thereof. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Anders , M. B. Plenio , W. Dür , F. Verstraete , H. -J. Briegel

Generative models have advanced significantly in sampling material systems with continuous variables, such as atomistic structures. However, their application to discrete variables, like atom types or spin states, remains underexplored. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-18 Ping Tuo , Zezhu Zeng , Jiale Chen , Bingqing Cheng

We propose and demonstrate a nonlinear optics approach to emulate Ising machines containing up to a million spins and with tailored two and four-body interactions with all-to-all connections. It uses a spatial light modulator to encode and…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-21 Santosh Kumar , He Zhang , Yu-Ping Huang

An introduction to the application of combinatorial optimization methods to ground state calculations of frustrated, disordered systems is given. We discuss the interface problem in the random bond Ising ferromagnet, the random field Ising…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Rieger

The goal of this work is to build a dynamical theory of defects for quantum spin systems. A kinematic theory for an indefinite number of defects is first introduced exploiting distinguishable Fock space. Dynamics are then incorporated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Jacob C. Bridgeman , Alexander Hahn , Tobias J. Osborne , Ramona Wolf

Spin glass systems as lattices of disordered magnets with random interactions have important implications within the theory of magnetization and applications to a wide-range of hard combinatorial optimization problems. Nevertheless, despite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-28 Fredrik Hasselgren , Max O. Al-Hasso , Amy Searle , Joseph Tindall , Marko von der Leyen

Cluster states are versatile quantum resources and an essential building block for measurement-based quantum computing. The possibility to generate cluster states in specific systems may thus serve as an indicator regarding if and to what…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-19 Zheng-Yang Zhou , Clemens Gneiting , J. Q. You , Franco Nori

The coherent Ising machine (CIM) is a quantum-inspired computing platform that leverages optical parametric oscillation dynamics to solve combinatorial optimization problems by searching for the ground state of an Ising Hamiltonian.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Yan Chen Jiang , Lu Ma , Chuan Wang , Tie Jun Wang

We introduce new fast canonical local algorithms for discrete and continuous spin systems. We show that for a broad selection of spin systems they compare favorably to the known ones except for the Ising +/-1 spins. The new procedures use…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Loison , C. Qin , K. D. Schotte , X. F. Jin

We study a class of filters -- discrete finite-state transition systems employed as incremental stream transducers -- that have application to robotics: e.g., to model combinatorial estimators and also as concise encodings of feedback…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Yulin Zhang , Dylan A. Shell

We study the complexity of classically sampling from the output distribution of an Ising spin model, which can be implemented naturally in a variety of atomic, molecular, and optical systems. In particular, we construct a specific example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Bill Fefferman , Michael Foss-Feig , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We study the dynamics of bond-disordered Ising spin systems on random graphs with finite connectivity, using generating functional analysis. Rather than disorder-averaged correlation and response functions (as for fully connected systems),…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. L. Hatchett , B. Wemmenhove , I. Perez Castillo , T. Nikoletopoulos , N. S. Skantzos , A. C. C. Coolen

We study two-dimensional Ising spins, evolving through reinforcement learning using their state, action, and reward. The state of a spin is defined as whether it is in the majority or minority with its nearest neighbours. The spin updates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-22 Pranay Bimal Sampat , Ananya Verma , Riya Gupta , Shradha Mishra

We propose a model-based, automated, bottom-up approach for design, which is applicable to various physical domains, but in this work we focus on the electrical domain. This bottom-up approach is based on a meta-topology in which each link…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Ion Matei , Maksym Zhenirovskyy , John Maxwell , Johan de Kleer

We consider a network of N noisy bistable elements with global time-delayed couplings. In a two-state description, where elements are represented by Ising spins, the collective dynamics is described by an infinite hierarchy of coupled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Kimizuka , T. Munakata , M. L. Rosinberg

The problem of finding a finite state symbolic model which is bisimilar to a hybrid dynamical system (HDS) and has the minimum number of states is considered. The considered class of HDS allows for discrete-valued inputs that only affect…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Babak Tavassoli

Binary optimization is a powerful tool for modeling combinatorial problems, yet scalable and theoretically sound solution methods remain elusive. Conventional solvers often rely on heuristic strategies with weak guarantees or struggle with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Wenbo Liu , Akang Wang , Dun Ma , Hongyi Jiang , Jianghua Wu , Wenguo Yang

Nonreciprocal interactions in many-body systems lead to time-dependent states, commonly observed in biological, chemical, and ecological systems. The stability of these states in the thermodynamic limit and the critical behavior of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , David Martin , Daniel Seara , Vincenzo Vitelli

If we have a system of binary variables and we measure the pairwise correlations among these variables, then the least structured or maximum entropy model for their joint distribution is an Ising model with pairwise interactions among the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-12 Michele Castellana , William Bialek