Finite-size scaling, phase coexistence, and algorithms for the random cluster model on random graphs

T Helmuth, M Jenssen, W Perkins - … de l'Institut Henri Poincare (B) …, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
For Δ≥ 5 and q large as a function of Δ, we give a detailed picture of the phase transition of
the random cluster model on random Δ-regular graphs. In particular, we determine the …

Metastability of the Potts ferromagnet on random regular graphs

A Coja-Oghlan, A Galanis, LA Goldberg… - … in Mathematical Physics, 2023 - Springer
We study the performance of Markov chains for the q-state ferromagnetic Potts model on
random regular graphs. While the cases of the grid and the complete graph are by now well …

Algorithms for the ferromagnetic Potts model on expanders

C Carlson, E Davies, N Fraiman, A Kolla… - Combinatorics …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We give algorithms for approximating the partition function of the ferromagnetic $ q $-color
Potts model on graphs of maximum degree $ d $. Our primary contribution is a fully …

Sampling from the Potts model at low temperatures via Swendsen–Wang dynamics

A Blanca, R Gheissari - 2023 IEEE 64th Annual Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sampling from the q-state ferromagnetic Potts model is a fundamental question in statistical
physics, probability theory, and theoretical computer science. On general graphs, this …

Low-temperature Ising dynamics with random initializations

R Gheissari, A Sinclair - Proceedings of the 54th Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Glauber dynamics on spin systems are well known to suffer exponential slowdowns at low
temperatures due to the emergence of multiple metastable phases, separated by narrow …

Planting and MCMC Sampling from the Potts model

A Galanis, LA Goldberg, P Smolarova - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14409, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of sampling from the ferromagnetic $ q $-state Potts model on the
random $ d $-regular graph with parameter $\beta> 0$. A key difficulty that arises in …

Sampling from the random cluster model on random regular graphs at all temperatures via Glauber dynamics

A Galanis, LA Goldberg, P Smolarova - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.13239, 2023 - arxiv.org
We consider the performance of Glauber dynamics for the random cluster model with real
parameter $ q> 1$ and temperature $\beta> 0$. Recent work by Helmuth, Jenssen and …

The critical mean-field Chayes–Machta dynamics

A Blanca, A Sinclair, X Zhang - Combinatorics, Probability and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The random-cluster model is a unifying framework for studying random graphs, spin systems
and electrical networks that plays a fundamental role in designing efficient Markov Chain …

On the tractability of sampling from the Potts model at low temperatures via random-cluster dynamics

A Blanca, R Gheissari - Probability Theory and Related Fields, 2024 - Springer
Sampling from the q-state ferromagnetic Potts model is a fundamental question in statistical
physics, probability theory, and theoretical computer science. On general graphs, this …

On the tractability of sampling from the Potts model at low temperatures via Swendsen--Wang dynamics

A Blanca, R Gheissari - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.03182, 2023 - arxiv.org
Sampling from the $ q $-state ferromagnetic Potts model is a fundamental question in
statistical physics, probability theory, and theoretical computer science. On general graphs …