2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Irreversibility Enhances Quantum-Enhanced Markov-Chain Monte Carlo
Kefan Cao, Zidong Cui, Lei Wang +1
Detailed balance underlies conventional Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. Yet in classical systems, breaking detailed balance generates irreversible probability currents…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Statistical mechanics of the -queens problem
Zong-Yue Liu, Hai-Jun Liao, Lei Wang
We investigate the -queens problem as a lattice gas -- a model in which queens are placed on an chessboard with pairwise repulsive interactions along shared row…