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Real time evolution of a scalar field theory is investigated. The severe sign problem is circumvented using the Complex Langevin equation. The naive application of the method breaks down for extended real times due to the appearance of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-03 Daniel Alvestad , Alexander Rothkopf , Dénes Sexty

Quantum field theories with complex actions cannot be investigated using importance sampling due to the sign problem. One possible solution is to use the holomorphic gradient flow, a method we introduced related to the Lefschetz thimbles…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Neill C. Warrington

The great majority of algorithms employed in the study of lattice field theory are based on Monte Carlo's importance sampling method, i.e. on probability interpretation of the Boltzmann weight. Unfortunately in many theories of interest one…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-03 Lorenzo Bongiovanni

Stochastic quantization offers the opportunity to simulate field theories with a complex action. In some theories unstable trajectories are prevalent when a constant stepsize is employed. We construct algorithms for generating an adaptive…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Erhard Seiler , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

The complex Langevin method is a leading candidate for solving the sign problem occurring in various physical situations, notably QCD at finite chemical potential. Its most vexing problem is `convergence to the wrong limit', where the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-10-27 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Erhard Seiler , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

Discretizations of Langevin diffusions provide a powerful method for sampling and Bayesian inference. However, such discretizations require evaluation of the gradient of the potential function. In several real-world scenarios, obtaining…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Abhishek Roy , Lingqing Shen , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Saeed Ghadimi

The method of complex Langevin simulations is a tool that can be used to tackle the complex-action problem encountered, for instance, in finite-density lattice quantum chromodynamics or real-time lattice field theories. The method is based…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-18 Michael Mandl , Michael W. Hansen , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

The complexification of field variables is an elegant approach to attack the sign problem. In one approach one integrates on Lefschetz thimbles: over them, the imaginary part of the action stays constant and can be factored out of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-10 Kevin Zambello , Francesco Di Renzo

A large class of quantum and statistical field theoretical models, encompassing relevant condensed matter and non-abelian gauge systems, are defined in terms of complex actions. As the ordinary Monte-Carlo methods are useless in dealing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Moriconi , M. Moriconi

At nonzero chemical potential the numerical sign problem in lattice field theory limits the use of standard algorithms based on importance sampling. Complex Langevin dynamics provides a possible solution, but it has to be applied with care.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-15 Gert Aarts , Lorenzo Bongiovanni , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

In numerous papers, the behaviour of stochastic population models is investigated through the sign of a real quantity which is the growth rate of the population near the extinction set. In many cases, it is proven that when this growth rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Dang H. Nguyen , Edouard Strickler

We study the Stephanov model, which is an RMT model for QCD at finite density, using the Complex Langevin algorithm. Naive implementation of the algorithm shows convergence towards the phase quenched or quenched theory rather than to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Jacques Bloch , Jonas Glesaaen , Jacobus Verbaarschot , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

The three-dimensional XY model is studied at finite chemical potential using complex Langevin dynamics. The validity of the approach is probed at small chemical potential using imaginary chemical potential and continuity arguments, and at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-21 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James

The sign problem appears in lattice QCD as soon as a non-zero chemical potential is introduced. This prevents direct simulations to determine the phase structure of the strongly interacting matter. Complex Langevin methods have been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger

Complex Langevin dynamics can be used to perform numerical simulations of theories with a complex action. In order to justify the procedure, it is important to understand the properties of the real and positive distribution, which is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-09-13 Pietro Giudice , Gert Aarts , Erhard Seiler

The problem of linearization for third order evolution equations is considered. Criteria for testing equations for linearity are presented. A class of linearizable equations depending on arbitrary functions is obtained by requiring presence…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-09-20 P. Basarab-Horwath , F. Güngör

We study the stochastic quantization of two-dimensional nonlinear sigma model in the large $N$ limit. Our main tool is the {\it effective} Langevin equation with which we investigate nonperturbative phenomena and derive the results which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 R. Mochizuki , K. Yoshida

We study the sign problem in the Hubbard model on the hexagonal lattice away from half-filling using the Lefschetz thimbles method. We identify the saddle points, reduce their amount, and perform quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-13 Maksim Ulybyshev , Christopher Winterowd , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

The three-dimensional SU(3) spin model is an effective Polyakov loop model for QCD at nonzero temperature and density. It suffers from a sign problem at nonzero chemical potential. We revisit this model using complex Langevin dynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-03 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James

Deep generative models have emerged as a powerful class of priors for signals in various inverse problems such as compressed sensing, phase retrieval and super-resolution. Here, we assume an unknown signal to lie in the range of some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-26 Thanh V. Nguyen , Gauri Jagatap , Chinmay Hegde