Transfer operator analysis of the parallel dynamics of disordered Ising chains

We describe and analyze some novel approaches for studying the dynamics of Ising spin glass models. We first briefly consider the variational approach based on minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between independent trajectories and the real ones and note that this approach only coincides with the mean field equations from the saddle point approximation to the generating functional when the dynamics is defined through a logistic link function, which is the case for the...

We present a statistical analysis of spectra of transfer matrices of classical lattice spin models; this continues the work on the eight-vertex model of the preceding paper. We show that the statistical properties of these spectra can serve as a criterion of integrability. It provides also an operational numerical method to locate integrable varieties. In particular, we distinguish the notions of integrability and criticality considering the two examples of the three-dimensio...

Simulated Quantum Annealing (SQA), that is emulating a Quantum Annealing (QA) dynamics on a classical computer by a Quantum Monte Carlo whose parameters are changed during the simulation, is a well established computational strategy to cope with the exponentially large Hilbert space. It has enjoyed some early successes but has also raised more recent criticisms. Here we investigate, on the paradigmatic case of a one-dimensional transverse field Ising chain, two issues related...

In current studies of mean-field quantum spin systems, much attention is placed on the calculation of the ground-state energy and the excitation gap, especially the latter which plays an important role in quantum annealing. In pure systems, the finite gap can be obtained by various existing methods such as the Holstein-Primakoff transform, while the tunneling splitting at first-order phase transitions has also been studied in detail using instantons in many previous works. In...

It is discussed how the equilibrium properties of the Ising model are described by an Hamiltonian with an antiferromagnetic low temperature behavior if only an heat bath dynamics, with the characteristics of a Probabilistic Cellular Automaton, is assumed to determine the temporal evolution of the system.

We propose a new Monte Carlo method for efficiently sampling trajectories with fixed initial and final conditions in a system with discrete degrees of freedom. The method can be applied to any stochastic process with local interactions, including systems that are out of equilibrium. We combine the proposed path-sampling algorithm with thermodynamic integration to calculate transition rates. We demonstrate our method on the well studied 2D Ising model with periodic boundary co...

One of the most interesting directions in theoretical high-energy and condensed-matter physics is understanding dynamical properties of collective states of quantum field theories. The most elementary tool in this quest is retarded equilibrium correlators governing the linear response theory. In this article we examine tensor networks as a way of determining them in a fully ab initio way in a class of (1+1)-dimensional quantum field theories arising as infrared descriptions o...

The complete framework for the $\epsilon$-machine construction of the one dimensional Ising model is presented correcting previous mistakes on the subject. The approach follows the known treatment of the Ising model as a Markov random field, where usually the local characteristic are obtained from the stochastic matrix, the problem at hand needs the inverse relation, or how to obtain the stochastic matrix from the local characteristics, which are given via the transfer matrix...

We study the configurations of the nearest neighbor Ising ferromagnetic chain with IID centered and square integrable external random field in the limit in which the pairwise interaction tends to infinity. The available free energy estimates for this model show a strong form of disorder relevance, i.e., a strong effect of disorder on the free energy behavior, and our aim is to make explicit how the disorder affects the spin configurations. We give a quantitative estimate that...

Ising models, and the physical systems described by them, play a central role in generating entangled states for use in quantum metrology and quantum information. In particular, ultracold atomic gases, trapped ion systems, and Rydberg atoms realize long-ranged Ising models, which even in the absence of a transverse field can give rise to highly non-classical dynamics and long-range quantum correlations. In the first part of this paper, we present a detailed theoretical framew...