🔮🚀 "P-computers outperform quantum systems!" cries UCSB, leaving quantum physicists with a severe case of imposter syndrome. Meanwhile, everyone else is just trying to figure out why spin-glass isn't a type of fancy drinking vessel. 🍸🤔
https://news.ucsb.edu/2025/022239/new-ucsb-research-shows-p-computers-can-solve-spin-glass-problems-faster-quantum #Pcomputers #QuantumComputing #ImposterSyndrome #SpinGlass #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated
New UCSB research shows p-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems

Researchers in Kerem Çamsari's lab and ECE professor Luke Theogarajan have demonstrated that their p-computer design can outperform a leading quantum annealer on the same “spin-glass” benchmarks commonly used to evaluate hard optimization problems.

The Current
New UCSB research shows p-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems

Researchers in Kerem Çamsari's lab and ECE professor Luke Theogarajan have demonstrated that their p-computer design can outperform a leading quantum annealer on the same “spin-glass” benchmarks commonly used to evaluate hard optimization problems.

The Current
Observation of ultrametricity in photonic spin glasses

Hierarchy is the architecture of complex systems [1]. While Euclidean metric describes homogeneous and static systems, ultrametric geometry is for heterogeneous ensembles, hierarchic relations and dynamic contexts. Applications spread across all fields: communication technologies, information ...

Probabilistic spin glass
https://bytepawn.com/probabilistic-spin-glass-conclusion.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463

Spin glass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_glass#Applications
* condensed matter physics, yet strongly interdisciplinary character
* magnetic state characterized by randomness, cooperative behavior
* applications: neural network theory, computer science, theoretical biology, protein folding (2024 Nobel). ...

#physics #CondensedMatter #SpinGlass #NeuralNetworks #MachineLearning

Probabilistic spin glass - Conclusion

I summarize the 5 previous posts on probabilistic spin glasses.

Bytepawn - Marton Trencseni

https://www.spin-puzzle.com/

I found this weird puzzle online. Has anyone else tried this? #spinglass

Spin glass