Computer-intractability of the frustration model of a spin glass

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, , Citation C P Bachas 1984 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 17 L709 DOI 10.1088/0305-4470/17/13/006

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The author proves that finding a ground state of the three-dimensional frustration model of a spin glass is an NP-complete optimisation problem, and hence probably intractable in the sense that no algorithm requiring a time bounded by a polynomial of the volume can exactly solve it.

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