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Ising Model: Recent Developments and Exotic Applications II

A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Statistical Physics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 8786

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Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Interests: modeling of complex systems; multiagent systems; reinforcement learning; emergence and evolution of language; complex networks; statistical mechanics in complex networks; population dynamics; opinion formation; applications of statistical mechanics to computer sciences
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Dear Colleagues,

Proposed 101 years ago and initially intended to describe magnetic ordering, the Ising model turned out to be one of the most important models of statistical mechanics. Indeed, the idea of a lattice model with nodes being discrete variables called spins, which prefer to be similarly oriented, turned out to be tremendously prolific and influential. In addition to describing various magnetic systems, the Ising model was used to analyze alloys, liquid helium mixtures, glasses, critical behaviors in various gases, and protein folding. In recent years, interest in the Ising model has by no means been waning, and it is often used to describe systems that are very distant from the realm of physics. To some extent, various features or attributes such as political opinions, comfort, financial decisions, ideas, or culture might also be represented as discrete variables with suitably defined interactions. As a result, Ising-like models find a myriad of applications in diverse research fields such as opinion formation, social network analysis, and econophysics, but also computer science, computational biology, and neuroscience. In the era of big data and artificial intelligence, the Ising model is bound to draw scientists’ attention for quite some time. The objective of this Special Issue is to collect papers that describe recent results related to the Ising model or introduce original techniques for its analysis. Papers that explore novel areas of applications of Ising models are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Adam Lipowski
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Ising Ladder with Four-Spin Plaquette Interaction in a Transverse Magnetic Field
by Maria Eugenia S. Nunes, Francisco Welington S. Lima and Joao A. Plascak
Entropy 2023, 25(12), 1665; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25121665 - 16 Dec 2023
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The spin-1/2 quantum transverse Ising model, defined on a ladder structure, with nearest-neighbor and four-spin interaction on a plaquette, was studied by using exact diagonalization on finite ladders together with finite-size-scaling procedures. The quantum phase transition between the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases has [...] Read more.
The spin-1/2 quantum transverse Ising model, defined on a ladder structure, with nearest-neighbor and four-spin interaction on a plaquette, was studied by using exact diagonalization on finite ladders together with finite-size-scaling procedures. The quantum phase transition between the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases has then been obtained by extrapolating the data to the thermodynamic limit. The critical transverse field decreases as the antiferromagnetic four-spin interaction increases and reaches a multicritical point. However, the exact diagonalization approach was not able to capture the essence of the dimer phase beyond the multicritical transition. Full article
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The Capabilities of Boltzmann Machines to Detect and Reconstruct Ising System’s Configurations from a Given Temperature
by Mauricio A. Valle
Entropy 2023, 25(12), 1649; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25121649 - 12 Dec 2023
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The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a generative neural network that can learn in an unsupervised way. This machine has been proven to help understand complex systems, using its ability to generate samples of the system with the same observed distribution. In this [...] Read more.
The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a generative neural network that can learn in an unsupervised way. This machine has been proven to help understand complex systems, using its ability to generate samples of the system with the same observed distribution. In this work, an Ising system is simulated, creating configurations via Monte Carlo sampling and then using them to train RBMs at different temperatures. Then, 1. the ability of the machine to reconstruct system configurations and 2. its ability to be used as a detector of configurations at specific temperatures are evaluated. The results indicate that the RBM reconstructs configurations following a distribution similar to the original one, but only when the system is in a disordered phase. In an ordered phase, the RBM faces levels of irreproducibility of the configurations in the presence of bimodality, even when the physical observables agree with the theoretical ones. On the other hand, independent of the phase of the system, the information embodied in the neural network weights is sufficient to discriminate whether the configurations come from a given temperature well. The learned representations of the RBM can discriminate system configurations at different temperatures, promising interesting applications in real systems that could help recognize crossover phenomena. Full article
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Heat-Bath and Metropolis Dynamics in Ising-like Models on Directed Regular Random Graphs
by Adam Lipowski, António L. Ferreira and Dorota Lipowska
Entropy 2023, 25(12), 1615; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25121615 - 02 Dec 2023
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Using a single-site mean-field approximation (MFA) and Monte Carlo simulations, we examine Ising-like models on directed regular random graphs. The models are directed-network implementations of the Ising model, Ising model with absorbing states, and majority voter models. When these nonequilibrium models are driven [...] Read more.
Using a single-site mean-field approximation (MFA) and Monte Carlo simulations, we examine Ising-like models on directed regular random graphs. The models are directed-network implementations of the Ising model, Ising model with absorbing states, and majority voter models. When these nonequilibrium models are driven by the heat-bath dynamics, their stationary characteristics, such as magnetization, are correctly reproduced by MFA as confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations. It turns out that MFA reproduces the same result as the generating functional analysis that is expected to provide the exact description of such models. We argue that on directed regular random graphs, the neighbors of a given vertex are typically uncorrelated, and that is why MFA for models with heat-bath dynamics provides their exact description. For models with Metropolis dynamics, certain additional correlations become relevant, and MFA, which neglects these correlations, is less accurate. Models with heat-bath dynamics undergo continuous phase transition, and at the critical point, the power-law time decay of the order parameter exhibits the behavior of the Ising mean-field universality class. Analogous phase transitions for models with Metropolis dynamics are discontinuous. Full article
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Characteristics of an Ising-like Model with Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Interactions
by Boris Kryzhanovsky, Vladislav Egorov and Leonid Litinskii
Entropy 2023, 25(10), 1428; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25101428 - 09 Oct 2023
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In the framework of mean field approximation, we consider a spin system consisting of two interacting sub-ensembles. The intra-ensemble interactions are ferromagnetic, while the inter-ensemble interactions are antiferromagnetic. We define the effective number of the nearest neighbors and show that if the two [...] Read more.
In the framework of mean field approximation, we consider a spin system consisting of two interacting sub-ensembles. The intra-ensemble interactions are ferromagnetic, while the inter-ensemble interactions are antiferromagnetic. We define the effective number of the nearest neighbors and show that if the two sub-ensembles have the same effective number of the nearest neighbors, the classical form of critical exponents (α=0, β=1/2, γ=γ=1, δ=3) gives way to the non-classical form (α=0, β=3/2, γ=γ=0, δ=1), and the scaling function changes simultaneously. We demonstrate that this system allows for two second-order phase transitions and two first-order phase transitions. We observe that an external magnetic field does not destroy the phase transitions but only shifts their critical points, allowing for control of the system’s parameters. We discuss the regime when the magnetization as a function of the magnetic field develops a low-magnetization plateau and show that the height of this plateau abruptly rises to the value of one when the magnetic field reaches a critical value. Our analytical results are supported by a Monte Carlo simulation of a three-dimensional layered model. Full article
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Relevant Analytic Spontaneous Magnetization Relation for the Face-Centered-Cubic Ising Lattice
by Başer Tambaş
Entropy 2023, 25(2), 197; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25020197 - 19 Jan 2023
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The relevant approximate spontaneous magnetization relations for the simple-cubic and body-centered-cubic Ising lattices have recently been obtained analytically by a novel approach that conflates the Callen–Suzuki identity with a heuristic odd-spin correlation magnetization relation. By exploiting this approach, we study an approximate analytic [...] Read more.
The relevant approximate spontaneous magnetization relations for the simple-cubic and body-centered-cubic Ising lattices have recently been obtained analytically by a novel approach that conflates the Callen–Suzuki identity with a heuristic odd-spin correlation magnetization relation. By exploiting this approach, we study an approximate analytic spontaneous magnetization expression for the face-centered-cubic Ising lattice. We report that the results of the analytic relation obtained in this work are nearly consistent with those derived from the Monte Carlo simulation. Full article
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What Does It Take to Solve the 3D Ising Model? Minimal Necessary Conditions for a Valid Solution
by Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan, Marco Aurelio G. Portillo, Ernesto P. Raposo and Marcos G. E. da Luz
Entropy 2022, 24(11), 1665; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24111665 - 15 Nov 2022
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An exact solution of the Ising model on the simple cubic lattice is one of the long-standing open problems in rigorous statistical mechanics. Indeed, it is generally believed that settling it would constitute a methodological breakthrough, fomenting great prospects for further application, similarly [...] Read more.
An exact solution of the Ising model on the simple cubic lattice is one of the long-standing open problems in rigorous statistical mechanics. Indeed, it is generally believed that settling it would constitute a methodological breakthrough, fomenting great prospects for further application, similarly to what happened when Lars Onsager solved the two-dimensional model eighty years ago. Hence, there have been many attempts to find analytic expressions for the exact partition function Z, but all such attempts have failed due to unavoidable conceptual or mathematical obstructions. Given the importance of this simple yet paradigmatic model, here we set out clear-cut criteria for any claimed exact expression for Z to be minimally plausible. Specifically, we present six necessary—but not sufficient—conditions that Z must satisfy. These criteria will allow very quick plausibility checks of future claims. As illustrative examples, we discuss previous mistaken “solutions”, unveiling their shortcomings. Full article
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Generalized Solution of Inverse Problem for Ising Connection Matrix on d-Dimensional Hypercubic Lattice
by Boris Kryzhanovsky and Leonid Litinskii
Entropy 2022, 24(10), 1424; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101424 - 06 Oct 2022
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We analyze a connection matrix of a d-dimensional Ising system and solve the inverse problem, restoring the constants of interaction between spins, based on the known spectrum of its eigenvalues. When the boundary conditions are periodic, we can account for interactions between [...] Read more.
We analyze a connection matrix of a d-dimensional Ising system and solve the inverse problem, restoring the constants of interaction between spins, based on the known spectrum of its eigenvalues. When the boundary conditions are periodic, we can account for interactions between spins that are arbitrarily far. In the case of the free boundary conditions, we have to restrict ourselves with interactions between the given spin and the spins of the first d coordination spheres. Full article
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