{"title":"Transmission across a ribbon containing a square PT impurity","authors":"Cristian Mejía-Cortés, Mario I. Molina","doi":"arxiv-2403.13217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.13217","url":null,"abstract":"We study the spectrum and transmission coefficient of plane waves propagating\u0000along square ribbons of varying widths, containing a square-shaped,\u0000PT-symmetric impurity region. We start with a zero-width ribbon (1D chain) and\u0000place a PT symmetric dimer. The spectrum is computed numerically and the\u0000instability gain is computed as a function of the gain/loss dimer strength. The\u0000transmission coefficient is obtained in closed form and examined as a function\u0000of wavevector and the gain/loss parameter. Next, we study a ribbon in a narrow\u0000ladder configuration containing a square PT impurity. As before, we compute the\u0000instability gain numerically and the transmission coefficient in closed form\u0000for the two possible input modes. Finally, we repeat the calculations for a\u0000wider ladder ribbon containing a Lieb-like impurity in a PT configuration. For\u0000all cases and transmission channels, we obtain transmission divergences in\u0000wavevector-gain/loss parameter space, whose number increases with the width of\u0000the ribbon","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140205765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two-level systems and harmonic excitations in a mean-field anharmonic quantum glass","authors":"Thibaud Maimbourg","doi":"arxiv-2403.12740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.12740","url":null,"abstract":"Structural glasses display at low temperature a set of anomalies in\u0000thermodynamic observables. The prominent example is the linear-in-temperature\u0000scaling of the specific heat, at odds with the Debye cubic scaling found in\u0000crystals, due to acoustic phonons. Such an excess of specific heat in amorphous\u0000solids is thought of arising from phenomenological soft excitations dubbed\u0000tunneling two-level systems (TTLS). Their nature as well as their statistical\u0000properties remain elusive from a first-principle viewpoint. In this work we\u0000investigate the canonically quantized version of the KHGPS model, a mean-field\u0000glass model of coupled anharmonic oscillators, across its phase diagram, with\u0000an emphasis on the specific heat. The thermodynamics is solved in a\u0000semiclassical expansion. We show that in the replica-symmetric region of the\u0000model, up to the marginal glass transition line where replica symmetry gets\u0000continuously broken, a disordered version of the Debye approximation holds: the\u0000specific heat is dominated by harmonic vibrational excitations inducing a\u0000power-law scaling at the transition, ruled by random matrix theory. This\u0000mechanism generalizes a previous semiclassical argument in the literature. We\u0000then study the marginal glass phase where the semiclassical expansion becomes\u0000non-perturbative due to the emergence of instantons that overcome disordered\u0000Debye behavior. Inside the glass phase, a variational solution to the instanton\u0000approach provides the prevailing excitations as TTLS, which generate a linear\u0000specific heat. This phase thus hosts a mix of TTLS and harmonic excitations\u0000generated by interactions. We finally suggest to go beyond the variational\u0000approximation through an analogy with the spin-boson model.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140168877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhomogeneous Floquet thermalization","authors":"Soumya Bera, Ishita Modak, Roderich Moessner","doi":"arxiv-2403.08369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.08369","url":null,"abstract":"How a closed system thermalizes, especially in the absence of global\u0000conservation laws but in the presence of disorder and interactions, is one of\u0000the central questions in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We explore this\u0000for a disordered, periodically driven Ising chain. Our numerical results reveal\u0000inhomogeneous thermalization leading to a distribution of thermalization\u0000timescales within a single disordered sample, which we encode via a\u0000distribution of effective local temperatures. Using this, we find an excellent\u0000collapse $textit{without}$ $textit{any}$ $textit{fitting}$\u0000$textit{parameters}$ of the local relaxation dynamics for the entire range of\u0000disorder values in the ergodic regime when adapting the disorder-averaged\u0000diagonal entanglement entropy as internal `time' of the system. This approach\u0000evidences a remarkably uniform parametrization of the dynamical many-body\u0000evolution of local temperature within the otherwise highly heterogeneous\u0000ergodic regime, independent of the strength of the disorder.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140124786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miguel Aguilar-Janita, Silvio Franz, Victor Martin-Mayor, Javier Moreno-Gordo, Giorgio Parisi, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Juan J. Ruiz-Lorenzo
{"title":"Small field chaos in spin glasses: universal predictions from the ultrametric tree and comparison with numerical simulations","authors":"Miguel Aguilar-Janita, Silvio Franz, Victor Martin-Mayor, Javier Moreno-Gordo, Giorgio Parisi, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Juan J. Ruiz-Lorenzo","doi":"arxiv-2403.08503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.08503","url":null,"abstract":"We study the chaotic behavior of the Gibbs state of spin-glasses under the\u0000application of an external magnetic field, in the crossover region where the\u0000field intensity scales proportional to $1/sqrt{N}$, being $N$ the system size.\u0000We show that Replica Symmetry Breaking (RSB) theory provides universal\u0000predictions for chaotic behavior: they depend only on the zero-field overlap\u0000probability function $P(q)$ and are independent of other features of the\u0000system. Using solely $P(q)$ as input we can analytically predict quantitatively\u0000the statistics of the states in a small field. In the infinite volume limit,\u0000each spin-glass sample is characterized by an infinite number of states that\u0000have a tree-like structure. We generate the corresponding probability\u0000distribution through efficient sampling using a representation based on the\u0000Bolthausen-Snitmann coalescent. In this way, we can compute quantitatively\u0000properties in the presence of a magnetic field in the crossover region, the\u0000overlap probability distribution in the presence of a small field and the\u0000degree of decorrelation as the field is increased. To test our computations, we\u0000have simulated the Bethe lattice spin glass and the 4D Edwards-Anderson model,\u0000finding in both cases excellent agreement with the universal predictions.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140124800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Spin model for global flat-foldability of random origami","authors":"Chihiro Nakajima","doi":"arxiv-2403.07306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.07306","url":null,"abstract":"We map the problem of determining flat-foldability of the origami diagram\u0000onto the ground-state search problem of spin glass model on random graphs. If\u0000the origami diagram is locally flat-foldable around each vertex, a pre-folded\u0000diagram, showing the planar-positional relationship of the facet, can be\u0000obtained. For remaining combinatorial problem on layer ordering of facets can\u0000be described as a spin model. A spin variable is assigned for the\u0000layer-ordering of each pair of facets which have an overlap in the pre-folded\u0000diagram. The interactions to prohibit the intrusion of each facet into the\u0000other component of the same origami diagram are introduced among two or four\u0000spins. The flat-foldability of the diagram is closely related to the\u0000(non-)existence of frustrated loops on the spin model with the interactions on\u0000the random (hyper)graph.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140116226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Domenichini, J. Brock, J. Curiale, A. B. Kolton
{"title":"Effect of Ir growth pressure on the domain wall dynamics in Ta/Pt/Co/Ir/Ta stacks","authors":"P. Domenichini, J. Brock, J. Curiale, A. B. Kolton","doi":"arxiv-2403.07141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.07141","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamical response of magnetic domain walls to external magnetic fields\u0000in ultra-thin multilayer magnetic films is determined not only by the\u0000composition and thickness of the layers but also by the growth conditions.\u0000Growth conditions can induce significant structural changes inside the layers\u0000and at the interfaces between them, affecting in particular the dynamics of\u0000domain walls, their mobility, elastic tension, and the pinning forces acting on\u0000them. In this work, we focus specifically on the effect of Ir layer growth\u0000pressure in Ta/Pt/Co/Ir/Ta ultra-thin multilayers films. Measurements of the DC\u0000magnetic properties, domain wall velocity and domain morphology in the creep\u0000regime for both constant and alternating field pulses, were performed for a\u0000batch of samples where the Ir layer was grown at different pressures. We find\u0000that the saturation magnetization, the effective anisotropy constant and the\u0000domain wall surface tension grow with increasing pressure and saturate at a\u0000threshold pressure, while the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya field and the strength of\u0000the disorder remain practically unaltered over the range of pressures\u0000considered.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140115956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geometric Dynamics of Signal Propagation Predict Trainability of Transformers","authors":"Aditya Cowsik, Tamra Nebabu, Xiao-Liang Qi, Surya Ganguli","doi":"arxiv-2403.02579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.02579","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate forward signal propagation and gradient back propagation in\u0000deep, randomly initialized transformers, yielding simple necessary and\u0000sufficient conditions on initialization hyperparameters that ensure\u0000trainability of deep transformers. Our approach treats the evolution of the\u0000representations of $n$ tokens as they propagate through the transformer layers\u0000in terms of a discrete time dynamical system of $n$ interacting particles. We\u0000derive simple update equations for the evolving geometry of this particle\u0000system, starting from a permutation symmetric simplex. Our update equations\u0000show that without MLP layers, this system will collapse to a line, consistent\u0000with prior work on rank collapse in transformers. However, unlike prior work,\u0000our evolution equations can quantitatively track particle geometry in the\u0000additional presence of nonlinear MLP layers, and it reveals an order-chaos\u0000phase transition as a function of initialization hyperparameters, like the\u0000strength of attentional and MLP residual connections and weight variances. In\u0000the ordered phase the particles are attractive and collapse to a line, while in\u0000the chaotic phase the particles are repulsive and converge to a regular\u0000$n$-simplex. We analytically derive two Lyapunov exponents: an angle exponent\u0000that governs departures from the edge of chaos in this particle system, and a\u0000gradient exponent that governs the rate of exponential growth or decay of\u0000backpropagated gradients. We show through experiments that, remarkably, the\u0000final test loss at the end of training is well predicted just by these two\u0000exponents at the beginning of training, and that the simultaneous vanishing of\u0000these two exponents yields a simple necessary and sufficient condition to\u0000achieve minimal test loss.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140045226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimal cyclic behavior in sheared amorphous solids","authors":"Chloe W. Lindeman, Sidney R. Nagel","doi":"arxiv-2403.01679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.01679","url":null,"abstract":"Although jammed packings of soft spheres exist in potential-energy landscapes\u0000with a vast number of minima, when subjected to cyclic shear they may revisit\u0000the same configurations repeatedly. Simple hysteretic spin models, in which\u0000particle rearrangements are represented by spin flips, capture many features of\u0000this periodic behavior. Yet it has been unclear to what extent individual\u0000rearrangements can be described by such binary objects. Using a particularly\u0000sensitive algorithm, we identify rearrangements in simulated jammed packings.\u0000We select pairs of rearrangements that undo one another to create periodic\u0000cyclic behavior, explore the statistics of these pairs, and show that their\u0000internal structure is more complex than a spin analogy would indicate. This\u0000offers insight into both the collective nature of rearrangement events\u0000themselves and how complex systems such as amorphous solids can reach a limit\u0000cycle with relative ease.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140033197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dmitrii Dobrynin, Adrien Renaudineau, Mohammad Hizzani, Dmitri Strukov, Masoud Mohseni, John Paul Strachan
{"title":"Disconnectivity graphs for visualizing combinatorial optimization problems: challenges of embedding to Ising machines","authors":"Dmitrii Dobrynin, Adrien Renaudineau, Mohammad Hizzani, Dmitri Strukov, Masoud Mohseni, John Paul Strachan","doi":"arxiv-2403.01320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2403.01320","url":null,"abstract":"Physics-based Ising machines (IM) have risen to the challenge of solving hard\u0000combinatorial optimization problems with higher speed and better energy\u0000efficiency. Generally, such dedicated systems employ local search heuristics to\u0000traverse energy landscapes in searching for optimal solutions. Extending\u0000landscape geometry visualization tools, disconnectivity graphs, we quantify and\u0000address some of the major challenges met by IMs in the field of combinatorial\u0000optimization. Using efficient sampling methods, we visually capture landscapes\u0000of problems having diverse structure and hardness and featuring strong\u0000degeneracies, which act as entropic barriers for IMs. Furthermore, we\u0000investigate energy barriers, local minima, and configuration space clustering\u0000effects caused by locality reduction methods when embedding combinatorial\u0000problems to the Ising hardware. For this purpose, we sample disconnectivity\u0000graphs of PUBO energy landscapes and their different QUBO mappings accounting\u0000for both local minima and saddle regions. We demonstrate that QUBO energy\u0000landscape properties lead to the subpar performance of quadratic IMs and\u0000suggest directions for their improvement.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140032840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility edges in non-Hermitian models with slowly varying quasi-periodic disorders","authors":"Qiyun Tang, Yan He","doi":"arxiv-2402.17266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2402.17266","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the appearance of mobility edges in a one-dimensional\u0000non-Hermitian tight-banding model with alternating hopping constants and slowly\u0000varying quasi-periodic on-site potentials. Due to the presence of slowly\u0000varying exponent, the parity-time (PT) symmetry of this model is broken and its\u0000spectra is complex. It is found that the spectrum of this model can be divided\u0000into three different types of patterns depending on the magnitude of the\u0000quasi-periodic potential. As the amplitude of the potential increases from\u0000small to large, the initially well defined mobility edges become blurred\u0000gradually and then eventually disappear for large enough potential. This\u0000behavior of the mobility edges is also confirmed by a detailed study of the\u0000winding number of the complex spectra of this non-Hermitian model.","PeriodicalId":501066,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140001785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}