Colloquium: Experiments in vortex avalanches

E Altshuler, TH Johansen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2004 - APS
Avalanche dynamics are found in many phenomena, from earthquakes to the evolution of
species. They can also be found in vortex matter when a type-II superconductor is externally …

Geometry and temperature chaos in mixed spherical spin glasses at low temperature: the perturbative regime

GB Arous, E Subag, O Zeitouni - Communications on Pure and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We study the Gibbs measure of mixed spherical p‐spin glass models at low temperature, in
(part of) the 1‐RSB regime, including, in particular, models close to pure in an appropriate …

Zero-temperature quantum annealing bottlenecks in the spin-glass phase

S Knysh - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
A promising approach to solving hard binary optimization problems is quantum adiabatic
annealing in a transverse magnetic field. An instantaneous ground state—initially a …

Adsorption hysteresis and capillary condensation in disordered porous solids: a density functional study

E Kierlik, PA Monson, ML Rosinberg… - Journal of Physics …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a theoretical study of capillary condensation of fluids adsorbed in mesoporous
disordered media. Combining mean-field density functional theory with a coarse-grained …

Unraveling quantum annealers using classical hardness

V Martin-Mayor, I Hen - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Recent advances in quantum technology have led to the development and manufacturing of
experimental programmable quantum annealing optimizers that contain hundreds of …

Spin-glass dynamics: experiment, theory and simulation

ED Dahlberg, I Pemartín, E Marinari… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The study of spin-glass dynamics, long considered the paradigmatic complex system, has
reached important milestones. The availability of high-quality single crystals has allowed the …

Temperature chaos is present in off-equilibrium spin-glass dynamics

M Baity-Jesi, E Calore, A Cruz, LA Fernandez… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Experiments featuring non-equilibrium glassy dynamics under temperature changes still
await interpretation. There is a widespread feeling that temperature chaos (an extreme …

Chaos in temperature in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

T Rizzo, A Crisanti - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
We prove the existence of chaos in temperature in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. The
effect is exceedingly small, namely, of the ninth order in perturbation theory. The equations …

Generalization of the cavity method for adiabatic evolution of Gibbs states

L Zdeborová, F Krzakala - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2010 - APS
Mean-field glassy systems have a complicated energy landscape and an enormous number
of different Gibbs states. In this paper, we introduce a generalization of the cavity method in …

Practical engineering of hard spin-glass instances

J Marshall, V Martin-Mayor, I Hen - Physical review A, 2016 - APS
Recent technological developments in the field of experimental quantum annealing have
made prototypical annealing optimizers with hundreds of qubits commercially available. The …