Glassy chimeras could be blind to quantum speedup: Designing better benchmarks for quantum annealing machines

HG Katzgraber, F Hamze, RS Andrist - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
Recently, a programmable quantum annealing machine has been built that minimizes the
cost function of hard optimization problems by, in principle, adiabatically quenching …

Seeking quantum speedup through spin glasses: The good, the bad, and the ugly

HG Katzgraber, F Hamze, Z Zhu, AJ Ochoa… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
There has been considerable progress in the design and construction of quantum annealing
devices. However, a conclusive detection of quantum speedup over traditional silicon-based …

Growing timescales and lengthscales characterizing vibrations of amorphous solids

L Berthier, P Charbonneau, Y **… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Low-temperature properties of crystalline solids can be understood using harmonic
perturbations around a perfect lattice, as in Debye's theory. Low-temperature properties of …

Shear bands as manifestation of a criticality in yielding amorphous solids

G Parisi, I Procaccia, C Rainone… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Amorphous solids increase their stress as a function of an applied strain until a mechanical
yield point whereupon the stress cannot increase anymore, afterward exhibiting a steady …

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 …

Unexpected upper critical dimension for spin glass models in a field predicted by the loop expansion around the bethe solution at zero temperature

MC Angelini, C Lucibello, G Parisi, G Perrupato… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
The spin-glass transition in a field in finite dimension is analyzed directly at zero temperature
using a perturbative loop expansion around the Bethe lattice solution. The loop expansion is …

Numerical detection of the Gardner transition in a mean-field glass former

P Charbonneau, Y **, G Parisi, C Rainone, B Seoane… - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
Recent theoretical advances predict the existence, deep into the glass phase, of a novel
phase transition, the so-called Gardner transition. This transition is associated with the …

Searching for the Gardner transition in glassy glycerol

S Albert, G Biroli, F Ladieu, R Tourbot, P Urbani - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We search for a Gardner transition in glassy glycerol, a standard molecular glass, measuring
the third harmonics cubic susceptibility χ 3 (3) from slightly below the usual glass transition …

Gardner transition in physical dimensions

CL Hicks, MJ Wheatley, MJ Godfrey, MA Moore - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
The Gardner transition is the transition that at mean-field level separates a stable glass
phase from a marginally stable phase. This transition has similarities with the de Almeida …

Gardner transition in finite dimensions

P Urbani, G Biroli - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Recent works on hard spheres in the limit of infinite dimensions revealed that glass states,
envisioned as metabasins in configuration space, can break up in a multitude of separate …