Comparing Monte Carlo methods for finding ground states of Ising spin glasses: Population annealing, simulated annealing, and parallel tempering

W Wang, J Machta, HG Katzgraber - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
Population annealing is a Monte Carlo algorithm that marries features from simulated-
annealing and parallel-tempering Monte Carlo. As such, it is ideal to overcome large energy …

Particle Swarm Optimization with spanning tree representation for Ising spin glasses

A Băutu, H Luchian - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spin glasses are magnetic materials with strong disorder. Their unique properties assure
them a central role in Statistical Physics, with applications that outreach many other …

Particle Swarms in Statistical Physics

A Băutu, E Băutu - Particle Swarm Optimization, 2009 - books.google.com
Statistical physics is the area of physics which studies the properties of systems composed
of many microscopic particles (like atoms and molecules). When combined, the interactions …