Collins Conference Room
Working Group
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Abstract.  Spin glasses are the prototypical complex system of statistical mechanics. The competing interactions in these models lead to frustration and produce a complex energy landscape with numerous local and often degenerate minima. As a result, they are typically intractable analytically and pose a formidable challenge for numerical simulations. In particular, most sampling techniques exhibit a tendency to remain localized in a small portion of phase space, rather than sampling from all configurations. Today, despite multiple decades of detailed investigation, several open questions remain in understanding the properties and dynamics of these disordered systems and developing better algorithms plays a key role in making progress.  This is especially of great importance given recent applications of these paradigmatic model systems to problems in fast-moving fields, such quantum information theory. The goal of this workshop is to analyze recent advances in algorithm development for spin glasses and to study the role of energy landscape complexity for the hardness of individual instances and for designing better algorithms.

Purpose: 
Research Collaboration
SFI Host: 
Ruben Andrist, Jon Machta, Helmut Katzgraber

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