From near to eternity: Spin-glass planting, tiling puzzles, and constraint-satisfaction problems.

@article{Hamze2018FromNT,
  title={From near to eternity: Spin-glass planting, tiling puzzles, and constraint-satisfaction problems.},
  author={Firas Hamze and Darryl C Jacob and Andrew J. Ochoa and Dilina Perera and Wenlong Wang and Helmut G. Katzgraber},
  journal={Physical review. E},
  year={2018},
  volume={97 4-1},
  pages={
          043303
        }
}
We present a methodology for generating Ising Hamiltonians of tunable complexity and with a priori known ground states based on a decomposition of the model graph into edge-disjoint subgraphs. The idea is illustrated with a spin-glass model defined on a cubic lattice, where subproblems, whose couplers are restricted to the two values {-1,+1}, are specified on unit cubes and are parametrized by their local degeneracy. The construction is shown to be equivalent to a type of three-dimensional… 
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