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Normalized hypercubic smearing improves the behavior of dynamical Wilson-clover fermions, but has the unwanted side effect that it can occasionally produce spikes in the fermion force. These spikes originate in the chain rule connecting the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-09-10 Thomas DeGrand , Yigal Shamir , Benjamin Svetitsky

The HMC algorithm, combining the advantages of molecular dynamics and Monte-Carlo methods, is the most efficient algorithm to simulate QCD including the effects of sea quarks. In the standard approach momentum fields are generated with a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-12-18 Alberto Ramos

Machine learning has been a fast growing field of research in several areas dealing with large datasets. We report recent attempts to use Renormalization Group (RG) ideas in the context of machine learning. We examine coarse graining…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 S. Foreman , J. Giedt , Y. Meurice , J. Unmuth-Yockey

We have reformulated the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) technique so that a large part of the calculation scales linearly with the number of atoms. The reformulation is related to a recent alternative proposal for achieving linear-scaling QMC,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Alfe` , M. J. Gillan

We simulate Quantum Chromodynamics in four Euclidean dimensions with two (degenerate mass) flavors of dynamical quarks. The Dirac operator is the so-called chirally improved operator that has been studied so far in quenched calculations. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 C. B. Lang , Pushan Majumdar , Wolfgang Ortner

We study non-perturbative improvement in SU(3) lattice gauge theory coupled to fermions in the fundamental and two-index symmetric representations. Our lattice action is defined with hypercubic smeared links incorporated into the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-06-07 Yigal Shamir , Benjamin Svetitsky , Evgeny Yurkovsky

Hadrons in lattice QCD are usually created employing smeared interpolators. We introduce a new quark smearing that allows us to maintain small statistical errors and good overlaps of hadronic wavefunctions with the respective ground states,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-01 Gunnar S. Bali , Bernhard Lang , Bernhard U. Musch , Andreas Schäfer

I review recent work and some new results, performed in collaboration with G. Sierra, on the Real-Space Renormalization group method applied to quantum spin lattice systems mainly in spatial dimensions one and two, and to spin ladders which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

We study truncation effects in the SU(3) gauge actions obtained by the Monte Carlo renormalization group method. By measuring the heavy quark potential we find that the truncation effects in the actions coarsen the lattice by 40-50 % from…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-19 T. Takaishi , Ph. de Forcrand

We study a coupling flow of pure QCD gauge system by using the Monte Carlo Renormalization Group method. A rough location of the renormalized trajectory in two coupling space is obtained. Also we compare 4 different actions; (a)standard…

Lattice Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and the functional Renormalization Group (RG) are powerful approaches that allow for quantitative studies of non-perturbative phenomena such as bound-state formation, spontaneous symmetry breaking and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-19 Niklas Zorbach , Jan Philipp Klinger , Owe Philipsen , Jens Braun

We propose a formally valid machine-learning-assisted global proposal mechanism for Monte Carlo sampling in lattice gauge theory. The construction is based on a coupling-flow update on the SU(2) lattice-link manifold, in which active links…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-27 Seung-il Nam

We develop an extended framework for the hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm in lattice gauge theory by embedding the $SU(N)$ group into the space of general complex matrices,$M_N(\mathbb{C})$. Auxiliary directions will be completely…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-08-18 Norman H. Christ , Lu-Chang Jin , Christoph Lehner , Erik Lundstrum , Nobuyuki Matsumoto

We present a Monte Carlo Renormalisation Group (MCRG) study of the SU(2) gauge theory with two Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation. Using the two-lattice matching technique we measure the running of the coupling and the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 Simon Catterall , Luigi Del Debbio , Joel Giedt , Liam Keegan

Lattice Gauge Theory enables an ab initio study of the low-energy properties of Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of the strong interaction. I begin these lectures by presenting the lattice formulation of QCD, and then outline the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 D. G. Richards

We introduce a multigrid multilevel Monte Carlo method for stochastic trace estimation in lattice QCD based on orthogonal projections. This formulation extends the previously proposed oblique decomposition and it is assessed on three…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-16 Andreas Frommer , Jose Jimenez-Merchan , Francesco Knechtli , Tomasz Korzec , Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo

We apply Monte Carlo Renormalization group to the crumpling transition in random surface models of fixed connectivity. This transition is notoriously difficult to treat numerically. We employ here a Fourier accelerated Langevin algorithm in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Espriu , A. Travesset

In Hybrid Monte Carlo(HMC) simulations for full QCD, the gauge fields evolve smoothly as a function of Molecular Dynamics (MD) time. Thus we investigate improved methods of estimating the trial solutions to the Dirac propagator as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 R. C. Brower , A. R. Levi , K. Orginos

We construct lattice gauge theories in which the elements of the link matrices are represented by non-commuting operators acting in a Hilbert space. These quantum link models are related to ordinary lattice gauge theories in the same way as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Chandrasekharan , U. -J. Wiese

In the near-future noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era of quantum computing technology, applications of quantum computing will be limited to calculations of very modest scales in terms of the number of qubits used. The need to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Daniel C. Hackett , Kiel Howe , Ciaran Hughes , William Jay , Ethan T. Neil , James N. Simone