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The Monte Carlo evaluation of path integrals is one of a few general purpose methods to approach strongly coupled systems. It is used in all branches of Physics, from QCD/nuclear physics to the correlated electron systems. However, many…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-07-13 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Neill C. Warrington

We study the treatment of the constraints in stochastic quantization method. We improve the treatment of the stochastic consistency condition proposed by Namiki et al. by suitably taking account of the Ito calculus. Then we obtain an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Ikegami , T. Kimura , R. Mochizuki

We study Langevin dynamics with a kinetic energy different from the standard, quadratic one in order to accelerate the sampling of Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions. In particular, this kinetic energy can be non-globally Lipschitz, which raises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-15 Gabriel Stoltz , Zofia Trstanova

Lattice simulations of non-zero density QCD introduce the so-called sign problem (complex or negative probabilities), which invalidates importance sampling methods. To circumvent this, we use the Complex Langevin Equation (CLE), to measure…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-03-01 Michael W. Hansen , Dénes Sexty

The recent statistical finite element method (statFEM) provides a coherent statistical framework to synthesise finite element models with observed data. Through embedding uncertainty inside of the governing equations, finite element…

Computation · Statistics 2021-12-30 Ömer Deniz Akyildiz , Connor Duffin , Sotirios Sabanis , Mark Girolami

A general method is proposed which allows one to estimate drift and diffusion coefficients of a stochastic process governed by a Langevin equation. It extends a previously devised approach [R. Friedrich et al., Physics Letters A 271, 217…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Kleinhans , R. Friedrich , A. Nawroth , J. Peinke

In this study we derive a single-particle equation of motion, from first-principles, starting out with a microscopic description of a tracer particle in a one-dimensional many-particle system with a general two-body interaction potential.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ludvig Lizana , Tobias Ambjornsson , Alessandro Taloni , Eli Barkai , Michael A. Lomholt

Langevin algorithms are popular Markov chain Monte Carlo methods that are often used to solve high-dimensional large-scale sampling problems in machine learning. The most classical Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm is based on the overdamped…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nian Yao , Pervez Ali , Xihua Tao , Lingjiong Zhu

We propose an efficient method to compute the so-called residual phase that appears when performing Monte Carlo calculations on a Lefschetz thimble. The method is stochastic and its cost scales linearly with the physical volume, linearly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-07-09 M. Cristoforetti , F. Di Renzo , G. Eruzzi , A. Mukherjee , C. Schmidt , L. Scorzato , C. Torrero

Mean-field Langevin dynamics (MLFD) is a class of interacting particle methods that tackle convex optimization over probability measures on a manifold, which are scalable, versatile, and enjoy computational guarantees. However, some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Guillaume Wang , Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Lénaïc Chizat

We propose a new algorithm based on the Metropolis sampling method to perform Monte Carlo integration for path integrals in the recently proposed formulation of quantum field theories on the Lefschetz thimble. The algorithm is based on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Abhishek Mukherjee , Marco Cristoforetti , Luigi Scorzato

Thimble regularisation of lattice field theories has been proposed as a solution to the infamous sign problem. It is conceptually very clean and powerful, but it is in practice limited by a potentially very serious issue: in general many…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-22 Francesco Di Renzo , Kevin Zambello

We show that integro-differential generalized Langevin and non-Markovian master equations can be transformed into larger sets of ordinary differential equations. .On the basis of this transformation we develop a numerical method for solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joshua Wilkie

The generalized Langevin equation is a model for the motion of coarse-grained particles where dissipative forces are represented by a memory term. The numerical realization of such a model requires the implementation of a stochastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Niklas Bockius , Jeanine Shea , Gerhard Jung , Friederike Schmid , Martin Hanke

Recently the complex Langevin method (CLM) has been attracting attention as a solution to the sign problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo calculations when the effective Boltzmann weight is not real positive. An undesirable feature of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-13 Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

A simple integral relation between a complex weight and the corresponding positive distribution is derived by introducing a second complex variable. Together with the positivity and normalizability conditions, this sum rule allows to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-14 Jacek Wosiek

We stochastically quantize the Born-Infeld field which can hardly be dealtwith by means of the standard canonical and/or path-integral quantization methods. We set a hypothetical Langevin equation in order to quantize the Born-Infeld field,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroshi Hotta , Mikio Namiki , Masahiko Kanenaga

In order to understand the dynamical mechanism of the friction phenomena, we heavily rely on the numerical analysis using various methods: molecular dynamics, Langevin equation, lattice Boltzmann method, Monte Carlo, e.t.c.. We propose a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-28 Shoichi Ichinose

We establish a direct connection between the Feynman-Vernon path integral formalism for open quantum systems and the Wiener path integral used in classical stochastic dynamics. By considering a generalized influence functional in the strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Antonio Camurati , Felipe Sobrero , Bruno Suassuna , Pedro V. Paraguassú

Thermal decay rate over an edge-shaped barrier at high dissipation is studied numerically through the computer modeling. Two sorts of the stochastic Langevin type equations are applied: (i) the Langevin equations for the coordinate and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Maria Chushnyakova , Igor Gontchar , Alexander Zakharov , Natalya Khmyrova