A study has developed a new method that enables quantum computers to measure the thermodynamic properties of systems by calculating the zeros of the partition function. A study led by researchers at ...

Abstract: Complex networks usually demonstrate intrinsic uncertainty, imprecision, and ambiguity in their structural and dynamical characteristics, which positions them as suitable candidates for ...

The statistical physics of graphs and partition functions represents a vibrant intersection of graph theory, statistical mechanics and computational complexity. By summing over an ensemble of ...

1 Department of Electronic Engineering and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of the Algarve, FCT-DEEI, Faro, Portugal. 2 Ossónoba Philosophical Society, Faro, Portugal. One ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 93, No. 23 (Nov. 12, 1996), pp. 12953-12958 (6 pages) The Ising problem consists in finding the analytical ...

THERMODYNAMICS is one of the most successful theories of matter ever constructed. There are no known violations of the theory for the description of macroscopic systems for which it was devised. But ...

The significant structures theory of liquids has been extended to take into account (i) translational degrees of freedom in the degeneracy term and (ii) the perturbation term which becomes important ...

For standard factor graphs (S-FGs) with non-negative real-valued local functions, Vontobel provided a combinatorial characterization of the Bethe approximation of the partition function, also known as ...