Diffusion maps help learn complex quantum phase transitions from data.
problem Learning quantum phase transitions from experimental data is challenging.
method Diffusion maps for nonlinear dimensionality reduction and spectral clustering.
result Diffusion maps can learn complex phase transitions unsupervised.
Machine learning approximates phase transitions using Fisher information.
problem Understanding phase transitions from data using machine learning.
method Information geometry and Fisher information.
result Machine learning indicators approximate the square root of Fisher information.
Machine learning classifies phases of spin models using improved correlation configurations.
problem Classifying phases of spin models using machine learning.
method Improved correlation configuration estimator applied to machine learning.
result Classifies Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in quantum XY model.
Spin-opstrings from QMC simulations enable ML of quantum phases.
problem Capturing and predicting quantum phase transitions using ML.
method Spin-opstrings derived from QMC simulations used as ML input.
result Spin-opstrings accurately predict quantum phase transitions.
The classification of phase transitions is a central and challenging task in condensed matter physics. Typically, it relies on the identification of order parameters and the analysis of singularities in the free energy and its derivatives. Here, we propose an alternative framework to identify quantum phase transitions,…
Quantum machine learning generalizes well from limited data.
problem Generalization in quantum machine learning from few training data.
method Optimizing parameterized quantum circuits on training data sets and analyzing generalization error.
result Generalization error scales at worst as √(T/N) and improves to √(K/N) when only K gates change.
Quantum phase diagrams for Chern topological insulators show jumps at critical loci.
problem Understanding phase transitions in Chern topological insulators.
method Mathematical formulation and explicit families of physical systems.
result Synthetic design of arbitrary Chern jumps in topological phases.
This paper applies quantum probability theory to model asset returns, avoiding assumptions about quantum effects.
problem Modeling asset returns with classical probability theory.
method Derives a Schrödinger-like trading equation using quantum probability, linking it to traders' decisions and market behaviors.
result Quantum probability can describe multimodal distributions of asset returns without assuming quantum effects.
Overparametrization improves QNN trainability by reducing spurious local minima.
problem Understanding how overparametrization affects the loss landscape of QNNs.
method Rigorous analysis of overparametrization in QNNs with periodic structure.
result Overparametrization corresponds to a computational phase transition improving QNN trainability.
A probing scheme is considered with an accessible and controllable qubit, used to probe an out-of equilibrium system consisting of a second qubit interacting with an environment. Quantum spontaneous synchronization between the probe and the system emerges in this model and, by tuning the probe frequency, can occur both…
The paper models market crashes as phase transitions, finding dynamic transitions offer better predictions.
problem Understanding and predicting extreme financial events like market crashes.
method Employing phase transition theory, focusing on endogenous crashes, and comparing DPT, CPT, and SPT.
result Dynamic phase transitions provide more accurate predictions of market crashes compared to critical and stochastic models.
If a given behavior of a multi-agent system restricts the phase variable to a invariant manifold, then we define a phase transition as change of physical characteristics such as speed, coordination, and structure. We define such a phase transition as splitting an underlying manifold into two sub-manifolds with distinct…
New approach connects quantum phases to VQA trainability, enabling better scaling.
problem Scalability issues in VQAs, especially barren plateaus.
method Analog VQA ansätze composed of quenches of a disordered Ising chain, tuning disorder strength.
result Thermalized and MBL phases reach maximal expressivity at large M, but barren plateaus emerge at smaller M in the thermalized phase. Study uses supervised learning to classify quantum phases with limited measurements.
problem Classifying quantum phases of matter with incomplete phase diagrams.
method Combines classical and quantum techniques, including tensor networks, kernel methods, and quantum algorithms.
result Certification of new ground states can be achieved with polynomial measurements.
Double-well transitions are stiffer than minimal surfaces.
problem Rigidity of double-well phase transitions compared to minimal hypersurfaces.
method Comparison of rigidity properties between double-well phase transitions and minimal hypersurfaces.
result Double-well phase transitions exhibit more rigidity than minimal hypersurfaces.
New algorithms handle phase retrieval with rank d measurements, revealing phase transitions.
problem Phase retrieval with rank d measurements.
method Random duality theory (RDT) and descending phase retrieval algorithms (dPR).
result Minimal sample complexity ratio for dPR's success exhibits phase transitions.
Characterizing the phase transitions of convex optimizations in recovering structured signals or data is of central importance in compressed sensing, machine learning and statistics. The phase transitions of many convex optimization signal recovery methods such as ℓ1 minimization and nuclear norm minimization are…
Study phase transitions with prescribed mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds.
problem Understanding phase transitions with prescribed mean curvature in geometric settings.
method Analyzing solutions to inhomogeneous semilinear elliptic PDEs, establishing bounds and asymptotics.
result Established upper and lower bounds for eigenvalues of phase transition problems.
The paper studies phase transitions in Information Bottleneck for representation learning.
problem Understanding the behavior of compression and prediction terms in IB objective.
method Studied phase transitions in IB objective using second-order calculus of variations and Fisher information matrix.
result IB phase transitions correspond to learning new classes and are related to maximum correlation between input and target orthogonal to the learned representation.
A simple and elegant arrangement of stock components of a portfolio (market index-DJIA) in a recent paper [1], has led to the construction of crossing of stocks diagram. The crossing stocks method revealed hidden remarkable algebraic and geometrical aspects of stock market. The present paper continues to uncover new ma…
Continuous phase transitions identified in Doi-Onsager, noisy transformer, and Hegselmann-Krause models.
problem Phase transitions in multimodal models and their properties.
method Sharp coercivity estimate and constrained Lebedev--Milin inequality.
result Continuous phase transitions at critical coupling strengths for Doi-Onsager, noisy transformer, and Hegselmann-Krause models.
Unsupervised learning is a discipline of machine learning which aims at discovering patterns in big data sets or classifying the data into several categories without being trained explicitly. We show that unsupervised learning techniques can be readily used to identify phases and phases transitions of many body systems…
Descending phase retrieval algorithms show a phase transition with increasing sample complexity.
problem Theoretical limits of descending phase retrieval algorithms.
method Utilizing Random duality theory (RDT), the study develops a generic program to characterize algorithm performance.
result As sample complexity increases, the parametric manifold transitions from multi to single funneling points, leading to a phase transition in algorithm success.
Quantum reservoir computing needs coherence influx for effective information processing.
problem Understanding and optimizing quantum reservoir computing.
method Theoretical and numerical analysis of quantum systems, focusing on coherence influx and spectral radius of Pauli transfer matrix.
result Coherence influx is essential for realizing nonstationary echo state property in quantum reservoir computing.
Study finds phase transition in context-sensitive language model with short-range interactions.
problem Understanding phase transitions in language models with short-range interactions.
method Constructed a random language model with short-range interactions and investigated its statistical properties.
result Phase transition occurs in context-sensitive language models with constant context length.
Combining insights from machine learning and quantum Monte Carlo, the stochastic reconfiguration method with neural network Ansatz states is a promising new direction for high-precision ground state estimation of quantum many-body problems. Even though this method works well in practice, little is known about the learn…
Proves spectra equivalence for Riemannian manifolds.
problem Equivalence of Almgren-Pitts and phase-transition half-volume spectra.
method Proof of spectra equivalence for Riemannian manifolds.
result Confirms conjecture about spectra equivalence.
Deep networks learn features suddenly, akin to a phase transition.
problem Understanding sudden feature learning in deep networks.
method Adaptive kernel approach applied to two teacher-student models.
result Feature learning and Grokking are analogous to a first-order phase transition.
In this paper, we perform statistical segmentation and clustering analysis of the Dow Jones Industrial Average time series between January 1997 and August 2008. Modeling the index movements and log-index movements as stationary Gaussian processes, we find a total of 116 and 119 statistically stationary segments respect…
New model shows natural language exhibits phase transition similar to physics.
problem Understanding critical properties in natural language models.
method Created a context-sensitive random language model.
result Demonstrated a Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless phase transition.
Develops Hermitian TQFTs from quantum groups, defining new topological phases.
problem Defining Hermitian non-semisimple TQFTs.
method Categorical context and representation theory of quantum groups.
result New pseudo-Hermitian topological phases from quantum group representations.
High-dimensional random geometry shows phase transitions in various problems.
problem Phase transitions in high-dimensional random geometry.
method Analysis of various financial, optimization, and ecological problems.
result Links between seemingly distant fields and further ramifications.
Symmetry-electronic fingerprints reveal competing magnetic phases in two-dimensional materials.
problem Predicting magnetic ground states, moments, and anisotropy in two-dimensional magnets.
method Introduce the symmetry-electronic fingerprint (SEF), a physically interpretable representation that encodes crystallographic symmetry operations, Wyckoff-site geometry, and site-resolved electronic structure.
result SEF-trained models accurately classify magnetic ordering and regress moments alongside anisotropy energies.
In this paper we study the phenomenon of phase transitions for the geodesic flow on some geometrically finite negatively curved manifolds. We define a class of potentials going slowly to zero through the cusps of M for which the pressure map exhibits a phase transition. By a careful choice of the metric at the cusp w…
We derive the exact solution of a one-dimensional Markov functional model with log-normally distributed interest rates in discrete time. The model is shown to have two distinct limiting states, corresponding to small and asymptotically large volatilities, respectively. These volatility regimes are separated by a phase …
Improved simulation of phase transitions using hierarchical autoregressive networks.
problem Simulating phase transitions in complex systems.
method Hierarchical Autoregressive Neural (HAN) network sampling algorithm.
result Significant improvement in statistical uncertainty compared to the Wolff cluster algorithm.
Unified geometric approach to quantum indeterminacy.
problem Quantum indeterminacy and uncertainty principles.
method Geometric formulation using convex geometry and symplectic topology.
result Robertson-Schrodinger inequalities emerge as geometric principles.
Unified geometric framework for adiabatic quantum mechanics.
problem Understanding geometric phases and exceptional points in quantum mechanics.
method Formal geometric framework for arbitrary non-degenerate Hamiltonians.
result Generalization of geometric phase to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.
Generative diffusion models exhibit phase transitions in statistical mechanics, impacting their performance.
problem Understanding the performance and capabilities of generative diffusion models.
method Reformulating generative diffusion models using statistical mechanics, focusing on phase transitions and symmetry breaking.
result Generative diffusion models undergo second-order phase transitions with mean-field universality, critical instability, and mean-field critical exponents.
New method for sampling from multivariate distributions using optimal control and quantum mechanics.
problem Sampling from continuous multivariate probability distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Harmonic Path Integral Diffusion (H-PID) framework, formulated as a Stochastic Optimal Control problem.
result Efficient sampling algorithms without neural networks, revealing dynamic phase transitions.
Study shows strong min-max principle for phase transitions.
problem Understanding nodal sets near minimal hypersurfaces.
method Analogous to White's principle, applies to Allen-Cahn energy.
result Strong min-max principle for phase transitions.
Framework for multi-scale clustering using phase transitions.
problem Clustering datasets with multi-scale structures.
method Cascade of phase transitions in simulated annealing of Expectation-Maximisation algorithm with weighted local covariance.
result Approximation of the number and size of clusters at different scales.
Study phase transitions in shuffled regression problems.
problem Phase transitions in shuffled regression problems.
method Transformed permutation recovery into probabilistic graphical model, used message passing (MP) algorithm and branching random walk process.
result Characterized impact of signal-to-noise-ratio ($\snr$) on permutation recovery, proposed Gaussian approximation method.
The stability of money value is an important requisite for a functioning economy, yet it critically depends on the actions of participants in the market themselves. Here we model the value of money as a dynamical variable that results from trading between agents. The basic trading scenario can be recast into an Ising t…
The study uses the Merton model to estimate PD and finds a phase transition affecting convergence speed.
problem Estimating the probability of default (PD) using limited historical data.
method Adopted the Merton model and analyzed phase transitions in default correlation.
result PD estimation converges slowly when temporal correlation decays by power law less than one.
Persistent entropy detects phase transitions in complex systems.
problem Detecting phase transitions in complex systems.
method Established a general theorem for persistent entropy to reliably detect phase transitions, introduced operational framework for finite-time computations.
result Persistent entropy exhibits an asymptotically non-vanishing gap across phases, robust numerical signatures across experiments.
In this paper, we study the sensitivity of the spectral clustering based community detection algorithm subject to a Erdos-Renyi type random noise model. We prove phase transitions in community detectability as a function of the external edge connection probability and the noisy edge presence probability under a general…
We fill a void in merging empirical and phenomenological characterisation of the dynamical phase transitions in complex systems by identifying three of them on real-life financial markets. We extract and interpret the empirical, numerical, and semi-analytical evidences for the existence of these phase transitions, by c…