The analysis of Ising models continues to provide deep insights into the phenomena of phase transitions and critical behaviour in statistical mechanics. In particular, the study of finite-size scaling ...

By extending a proof of a physically important behavior in one-dimensional quantum spin systems to higher dimensions, a RIKEN ...

“For instance, suppose you heat the right half of a solid and cool the left half, and then isolate it,” says Chiba. “Energy ...

Statistical mechanics lies at the interface between probability theory and physics. It goes back to the physicists Clausius and in particular Gibbs and Boltzmann. Its aim is to understand the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract There has been a lot of work fitting Ising models to multivariate binary data in order to understand the conditional dependency relationships ...

The appearance of the article by N. Metropolis, A. W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth, A. H. Teller, and E. Teller marked the birth of the Monte Carlo method for the study of statistical-mechanical ...