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Using Wang-landau algorithm combined with analytic method, the density of states of two dimensional XY model on square lattices of sizes $16\times16$, $24\times24$ and $32\times32$ is accurately calculated. Thermodynamic quantities, such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-16 Jun Xu , H. R. Ma

The LLR method is a novel algorithm that enables us to evaluate the density of states in lattice gauge theory. We present our study of the ergodicity properties of the LLR algorithm for the model of Yang Mills SU(3). We show that the use of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Guido Cossu , Biagio Lucini , Roberto Pellegrini , Antonio Rago

Lattice Field Theory can be used to study finite temperature first-order phase transitions in new, strongly-coupled gauge theories of phenomenological interest. Metastable dynamics arising in proximity of the phase transition can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-09 David Mason , Biagio Lucini , Maurizio Piai , Enrico Rinaldi , Davide Vadacchino

The density of states of continuous models is known to span many orders of magnitudes at different energies due to the small volume of phase space near the ground state. Consequently, the traditional Wang-Landau sampling which uses the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-20 Yang Wei Koh , Hwee Kuan Lee , Yutaka Okabe

The Logarithmic Linear Relaxation (LLR) algorithm is an efficient method for computing densities of states for systems with a continuous spectrum. A key feature of this method is exponential error reduction, which allows us to evaluate the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-04-13 Biagio Lucini , Olmo Francesconi , Markus Holzmann , David Lancaster , Antonio Rago

Gauge fixing is an essential step in lattice QCD calculations, particularly for studying gauge-dependent observables. Traditional iterative algorithms are computationally expensive and often suffer from critical slowing down and scaling…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-05 Ho Hsiao , Benjamin J. Choi , Hiroshi Ohno , Akio Tomiya

The Wang-Landau algorithm aims at sampling from a probability distribution, while penalizing some regions of the state space and favoring others. It is widely used, but its convergence properties are still unknown. We show that for some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Pierre E. Jacob , Robin J. Ryder

We study the problem of critical slowing-down for gauge-fixing algorithms (Landau gauge) in $SU(2)$ lattice gauge theory on $2$ and $4$ dimensional lattices, both numerically and analytically. We consider five such algorithms, and we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Attilio Cucchieri , Tereza Mendes

Monte Carlo simulations using Wang-Landau sampling are performed to study three-dimensional chains of homopolymers on a lattice. We confirm the accuracy of the method by calculating the thermodynamic properties of this system. Our results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. G. Cunha Netto , C. J. Silva , A. A. Caparica , R. Dickman

We describe a stochastic technique which allows one to compute numerically the coefficients of the weak coupling perturbative expansion of any observable in Lattice Gauge Theory. The idea is to insert the exponential representation of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 F. Di Renzo , G. Marchesini , P. Marenzoni , E. Onofri

We use a Monte Carlo simulation to study the diluted antiferromagnetic Ising model on the frustrated lattices including the pyrochlore lattice to show the dilution effects. Using the Wang-Landau algorithm, which directly calculates the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-24 Yuriy Shevchenko , Konstantin Nefedev , Yutaka Okabe

An algorithm for gauge fixing to the minimal Landau gauge in lattice QCD is described. The method, a combination of an evolutionary algorithm with a steepest descent method, is able to solve the problem of the nonperturbative gauge fixing.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Oliveira , P. J. Silva

We analyze the convergence properties of the Wang-Landau algorithm. This sampling method belongs to the general class of adaptive importance sampling strategies which use the free energy along a chosen reaction coordinate as a bias. Such…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Gersende Fort , Benjamin Jourdain , Estelle Kuhn , Tony Lelièvre , Gabriel Stoltz

The feasibility of studying, numerically, properties of infinite volume QCD-like theories in the large $N$ limit using coherent state variational methods is reassessed. An entirely new implementation of this approach is described,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-05 Laurence G. Yaffe

Extensions of the standard model that lead to first-order phase transitions in the early universe can produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves, which may be accessible to future detectors. Thermodynamic observables at the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-11 David Mason , Biagio Lucini , Maurizio Piai , Enrico Rinaldi , Davide Vadacchino

Learning in neural networks critically hinges on the intricate geometry of the loss landscape associated with a given task. Traditionally, most research has focused on finding specific weight configurations that minimize the loss. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-30 Margherita Mele , Roberto Menichetti , Alessandro Ingrosso , Raffaello Potestio

We apply the Linear Logarithmic Relaxation (LLR) method, which generalizes the Wang-Landau algorithm to quantum systems with continuous degrees of freedom, to the fermionic Hubbard model with repulsive interactions on the honeycomb lattice.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-09-16 Michael Körner , Kurt Langfeld , Dominik Smith , Lorenz von Smekal

We present work in progress using the Logarithmic Linear Relaxation (LLR) density of states algorithm to analyse first-order phase transitions in pure-gauge SU(N) Yang--Mills theories, focusing on N = 4 and 6. By using the LLR algorithm we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-03-03 Felix Springer , David Schaich

It is shown how to adapt the non-perturbative coupled cluster method of many-body theory so that it may be successfully applied to Hamiltonian lattice $SU(N)$ gauge theories. The procedure involves first writing the wavefunctions for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 C. H. Llewellyn Smith , N. J. Watson

Lattice discretization of the supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum mechanics is dis cussed. First results of the quenched Monte Carlo simulations, for D=4 and with higher g auge groups (3 <= N <= 8), are presented. We confirm an earlier (N=2)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Bialas , J. Wosiek