Questions tagged [spin-glasses]
For questions related to spin glasses which are disordered materials that admit particularly simple mathematical models such as the Ising model with random couplings.
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Are spin-glass problems NP (-complete)?
It is well known that finding ground states for spin-glass systems (Ising, XY...) is NP-hard (at least as hard as the hardest NP-problems) so that they can be efficiently used to solve other NP ...
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Is there a general method of expressing optimization problem as a Hamiltonian?
Let's say, that we have an optimization problem in the form:
$$ \min_x f(x) \\ g_i(x) \leq 0, i = 1, ..., m \\ h_j(x) = 0, j = 1, ..., p,
$$
where $f(x)$ is an objective function, $g_i(x)$ are ...
