The Ising model remains a cornerstone in the study of statistical mechanics, providing a simple yet profound framework for understanding cooperative phenomena and criticality in physical systems. By ...

The analysis of Ising models continues to provide deep insights into the phenomena of phase transitions and critical behaviour in statistical mechanics. In particular, the study of finite-size scaling ...

Figure 1: A two-dimensional representation of a ten-dimensional hypercube. A RIKEN researcher has shown that quantum Ising models lack local conserved quantities even ...

Paul D. Beale and R. K. Pathria have published the third edition “Statistical Mechanics.” The classic graduate-level textbook has been a leader in the field since Pathria published the first edition ...

The central selling point of qubit-based quantum processors is that they can supposedly solve certain types of tasks much faster than a classical computer. This comes however with the major ...

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct. 8, 2024, for their research on machine learning algorithms and neural networks that help computers learn. Their work ...

Statistical mechanics lies at the interface between probability theory and physics. It goes back to the physicists Clausius and in particular Gibbs and Boltzmann. Its aim is to understand the ...