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ArticleScience advances2021

Global minimization via classical tunneling assisted by collective force field formation.

Francesco Caravelli, Forrest C Sheldon, Fabio L Traversa

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Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. A self-learning magnetic Hopfield neural network with intrinsic gradient descent adaption.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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3 authors.

Francesco CaravelliTheoretical Division (T4), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7964-3030
Forrest C SheldonTheoretical Division (T4), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7321-8364
Fabio L TraversaMemComputing Inc., San Diego, CA 92121, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5878-8115

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Simple elements interacting in networks can give rise to intricate emergent behaviors. Examples such as synchronization and phase transitions often apply in many contexts, as many different systems may reduce to the same effective model. Here, we demonstrate such a behavior in a model inspired by memristors. When weakly driven, the system is described by movement in an effective potential, but when strongly driven, instabilities cause escapes from local minima, which can be interpreted as an unstable tunneling mechanism. We dub this collective and nonperturbative effect a “Lyapunov force,” which steers the system toward the global minimum of the potential function, even if the full system has a constellation of equilibrium points growing exponentially with the system size. This mechanism is appealing for its physical relevance in nanoscale physics and for its possible applications in optimization, Monte Carlo schemes, and machine learning.

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PMID34936465
PMCPMC8694608

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