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Using transfer-matrix method a correspondence between $2D$ classical spin systems ($2D$ Ising model and six-vertex model) and $1D$ quantum spin systems is considered. We find the transfer matrix in two limits - in a well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-09 Oles Zaburannyi

We study damage-spreading in the ferromagnetic Ising model on small world networks using Monte Carlo simulation with Glauber dynamics. The damage spreading temperature $T_d$ is determined as a function of rewiring probability $p$ for small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pontus Svenson , Des Johnston

We study the computational complexity of approximately computing the partition function of a spin system. Techniques based on standard counting-to-sampling reductions yield $\tilde{O}(n^2)$-time algorithms, where $n$ is the size of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiaoyu Chen , Zongchen Chen , Kuikui Liu , Xinyuan Zhang

We consider the most general single-spin-flip dynamics for the ferromagnetic Ising chain with nearest-neighbour influence and spin reversal symmetry. This dynamics is a two-parameter extension of Glauber dynamics corresponding respectively…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-29 C. Godreche , J. -M. Luck

We study the statistical distribution of the closest encounter between observations computed along different trajectories of a mixing dynamical system. At the limit of large trajectories, the distribution is of Gumbel type and depends on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Théophile Caby

We provide a general steady-state diffusion approximation result which bounds the Wasserstein distance between the reversible measure $\mu$ of a diffusion process and the measure $\nu$ of an approximating Markov chain. Our result is…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Thomas Bonis

We propose a semiclassical framework for solving open quantum dynamics in driven-dissipative spin systems. Our method consists of generalized spin-wave approximations tailored to describing quantum trajectories unravelled from the master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Zejian Li , Anna Delmonte , Rosario Fazio

We study the approximability of computing the partition function for ferromagnetic two-state spin systems. The remarkable algorithm by Jerrum and Sinclair showed that there is a fully polynomial-time randomized approximation scheme (FPRAS)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Jingcheng Liu , Pinyan Lu , Chihao Zhang

We consider the exact channel synthesis problem. This problem concerns the determination of the minimum amount of information required to create exact correlation remotely when there is a certain rate of randomness shared by two terminals.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Lei Yu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In this paper, we propose an adaptive finite difference scheme in order to numerically solve total variation type problems for image processing tasks. The automatic generation of the grid relies on indicators derived from a local estimation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Thomas Jacumin , Andreas Langer

Estimation of planetary orbital and physical parameters from light-curve data relies heavily on the accurate interpretation of Transit Timing Variations (TTV) measurements. In this letter, we review the process of TTV measurement and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Yair Judkovsky , Aviv Ofir , Oded Aharonson

We develop a theory to measure the variance and covariance of probability distributions defined on the nodes of a graph, which takes into account the distance between nodes. Our approach generalizes the usual (co)variance to the setting of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-19 Karel Devriendt , Samuel Martin-Gutierrez , Renaud Lambiotte

We develop a variant of Stein's method of comparison of generators to bound the Kolmogorov, total variation, and Wasserstein-1 distances between distributions on the real line. Our discrepancy is expressed in terms of the ratio of reverse…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Paul Mansanarez , Guillaume Poly , Yvik Swan

We address highly dynamic distributed systems modeled by time-varying graphs (TVGs). We interest in proof of impossibility results that often use informal arguments about convergence. First, we provide a distance among TVGs to define…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Nicolas Braud-Santoni , Swan Dubois , Mohamed-Hamza Kaaouachi , Franck Petit

We study algorithmic applications of a natural discretization for the hard-sphere model and the Widom-Rowlinson model in a region $\mathbb{V}\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. These models are used in statistical physics to describe mixtures of one or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Maximilian Katzmann , Martin S. Krejca , Marcus Pappik

Gradient-based approximate inference methods, such as Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), provide simple and general-purpose inference engines for differentiable continuous distributions. However, existing forms of SVGD cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jun Han , Fan Ding , Xianglong Liu , Lorenzo Torresani , Jian Peng , Qiang Liu

We investigate thermodynamic phase transitions of the joint presence of spin glass (SG) and random field (RF) using a random graph model that allows us to deal with the quenched disorder. Therefore, the connectivity becomes a controllable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-24 R. Erichsen , A. Silveira , S. G. Magalhaes

This paper introduces a novel approach to securing machine learning model deployments against potential distribution shifts in practical applications, the Total Variation Out-of-Distribution (TV-OOD) detection method. Existing methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Dabiao Ma , Zhiba Su , Jian Yang , Haojun Fei

Approximating the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model with general external fields is known to be #BIS-hard in the worst case, even for bounded-degree graphs, and it is widely believed that no polynomial-time approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Tyler Helmuth , Holden Lee , Will Perkins , Mohan Ravichandran , Qiang Wu

We consider the problem of algorithmically sampling from the Gibbs measure of a mixed $p$-spin spherical spin glass. We give a polynomial-time algorithm that samples from the Gibbs measure up to vanishing total variation error, for any…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Brice Huang , Andrea Montanari , Huy Tuan Pham