"statistical mechanics"

The Critical Properties of the Ising Model in Hyperbolic Space

The Ising model exhibits qualitatively different properties in hyperbolic space in comparison to its flat space counterpart. Due to the negative curvature, a finite fraction of the total number of spins reside at the boundary of a volume in …

The Ising Model in Curved Geometries

SLIDES The study of statistical mechanics in curved geometries has recently gained an increasing amount of attention. Particularly the Ising model in negatively curved spaces has been studied as a mean to understand exotic crystals, soft-matter and field theories in Anti-de Sitter spaces. We analyze the Ising model on in the hyperbolic plane as well as 2+1-Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space using high temperature series-expansion and Monte-Carlo simulations. While series expansions have been performed on the hyperbolic plane before, we study a wider class of hyperbolic lattices and go to much higher order, allowing us to analyze the dependency of critical phenomena on the magnitude of curvature.

Space-time circuit-to-Hamiltonian construction and its applications

The circuit-to-Hamiltonian construction translates dynamics (a quantum circuit and its output) into statics (the groundstate of a circuit Hamiltonian) by explicitly defining a quantum register for a clock. The standard Feynman–Kitaev construction …