Decoherence-controlled collective criticality in a two-dimensional quantum Stag Hunt

arXiv:2609.02957 2026 Dynamics 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 4, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper provides an exact mechanism by which microscopic decoherence renormalizes the effective interaction and field of a lattice population, while leaving strategic Gibbs fluctuations as a separate source of randomness. In particular, depolarization preserves the microscopic neutrality condition but suppresses the collective Ising coupling as $(1-p)^2$, producing a sharp transition from ordered coexistence to disordered crossover at a calculable noise level. The most transferable neural-network construction is a coupling-aware noise controller for binary energy-based models or recurrent attractor networks: estimate the effective interaction strength and tune injected noise to remain below, at, or above the collective critical boundary rather than treating noise as an arbitrary hyperparameter.

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Critical-Coupling Noise Controller

Add calibrated multiplicative noise to a binary energy-based model, Hopfield network, or discrete recurrent attractor system so that its effective coupling follows a chosen distance from the collective critical point. Unlike ordinary temperature annealing, the controller distinguishes microscopic channel noise from Gibbs or sampling noise and predicts when ordered attractors should disappear through a measurable susceptibility peak.

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Paper: Decoherence-controlled collective criticality in a two-dimensional quantum Stag Hunt arXiv:2609.02957