Spatial mixing and the random‐cluster dynamics on lattices

R Gheissari, A Sinclair - Random Structures & Algorithms, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An important paradigm in the understanding of mixing times of Glauber dynamics for spin
systems is the correspondence between spatial mixing properties of the models and bounds …

[HTML][HTML] Tunneling behavior of Ising and Potts models in the low-temperature regime

FR Nardi, A Zocca - Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
We consider the ferromagnetic q-state Potts model with zero external field in a finite volume
and assume that its stochastic evolution is described by a Glauber-type dynamics …

Random-cluster dynamics on random regular graphs in tree uniqueness

A Blanca, R Gheissari - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2021 - Springer
We establish rapid mixing of the random-cluster Glauber dynamics on random\varDelta Δ-
regular graphs for all q ≥ 1 q≥ 1 and p< p_u (q,\varDelta) p< pu (q, Δ), where the threshold …

Local and global geometry of the 2D Ising interface in critical prewetting

S Ganguly, R Gheissari - 2021 - projecteuclid.org
Consider the Ising model at low temperatures and positive external field λ on an N× N box
with Dobrushin boundary conditions that are plus on the north, east and west boundaries …

Multimodal Sampling via Approximate Symmetries

L Ying - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07244, 2023 - arxiv.org
Sampling from multimodal distributions is a challenging task in scientific computing. When a
distribution has an exact symmetry between the modes, direct jumps among them can …

Information percolation and cutoff for the random‐cluster model

S Ganguly, I Seo - Random Structures & Algorithms, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We consider the random‐cluster model (RCM) on with parameters p∈(0, 1) and q≥ 1. This
is a generalization of the standard bond percolation (with edges open independently with …

Spatial mixing and nonlocal Markov chains

A Blanca, P Caputo, A Sinclair… - Random Structures & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We consider spin systems with nearest‐neighbor interactions on an n‐vertex d‐dimensional
cube of the integer lattice graph. We study the effects that the strong spatial mixing condition …

Random-cluster dynamics in : Rapid mixing with general boundary conditions

A Blanca, R Gheissari, E Vigoda - 2020 - projecteuclid.org
The random-cluster model with parameters (p,q) is a random graph model that generalizes
bond percolation (q=1) and the Ising and Potts models (q≧2). We study its Glauber …

Fast relaxation of the random field Ising dynamics

AE Alaoui, R Eldan, R Gheissari, A Piana - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study the convergence properties of Glauber dynamics for the random field Ising model
(RFIM) with ferromagnetic interactions on finite domains of $\mathbb {Z}^ d $, $ d\ge 2$. Of …

Annealed importance sampling for Ising models with mixed boundary conditions

L Ying - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.08665, 2022 - arxiv.org
This note introduces a method for sampling Ising models with mixed boundary conditions.
As an application of annealed importance sampling and the Swendsen-Wang algorithm, the …