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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 path optimization method is applied to a QCD effective model with the Polyakov loop and the repulsive vector-type interaction at finite temperature and density to circumvent the model sign problem. We show how the path optimization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-18 Kouji Kashiwa , Yuto Mori , Akira Ohnishi

The concept of Lefschetz thimble decomposition is one of the most promising possible modifications of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms aimed at alleviating the sign problem which appears in many interesting physical situations, e.g. in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-07 M. V. Ulybyshev , S. N. Valgushev

We propose a novel approach toward the general solution of the sign problem in real-time path-integral simulations. Using a recursive multilevel blocking strategy, this method circumvents the sign problem by synthesizing the phase…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. Mak , R. Egger

A possible method to solve the sign problem is developed by modifying the original theory. Considering several modifications of the partition function, the observable in the original theory is reconstructed from the identity connecting the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-11-30 Takahiro M. Doi , Shoichiro Tsutsui

We apply the path optimization method to a QCD effective model with the Polyakov loop at finite density to circumvent the model sign problem. The Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model is employed as the typical QCD effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Kouji Kashiwa , Yuto Mori , Akira Ohnishi

We discuss the sign problem in the Polyakov loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with repulsive vector-type interaction by using the path optimization method. In this model, both of the Polyakov loop and the vector-type interaction cause…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-11-28 Akira Ohnishi , Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa

We apply constant imaginary offsets to the path integral for a reduction of the sign problem in the Hubbard model. These simple transformations enhance the quality of results from HMC calculations without compromising the speed of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-11 Christoph Gäntgen , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Marcel Rodekamp

The multilevel blocking algorithm recently proposed as a possible solution to the sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations has been extended to systems with long-ranged interactions along the Trotter direction. As an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Egger , L. Muehlbacher , C. H. Mak

The generalized thimble method to treat field theories with sign problems requires repeatedly solving the computationally-expensive holomorphic flow equations. We present a machine learning technique to bypass this problem. The central idea…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-11-15 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo Bedaque , Henry Lamm , Scott Lawrence

Motion planning can be cast as a trajectory optimisation problem where a cost is minimised as a function of the trajectory being generated. In complex environments with several obstacles and complicated geometry, this optimisation problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Lucas Barcelos , Tin Lai , Rafael Oliveira , Paulo Borges , Fabio Ramos

The numerical sign problem has long been a major obstacle to first-principles calculations in various important fields of physics. We report that the recently proposed algorithm, tempered Lefschetz thimble method (TLTM), and its worldvolume…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-30 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto

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

We show that complex Langevin simulation converges to a wrong result, by relating it to the Lefschetz-thimble path integral, when the path-integral weight has different phases among dominant complex saddle points. Equilibrium solution of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-07 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Yuya Tanizaki

Formulating the intended behavior of a dynamic system can be challenging. Signal temporal logic (STL) is frequently used for this purpose due to its suitability in formalizing comprehensible, modular, and versatile spatiotemporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Patrick Halder , Hannes Homburger , Lothar Kiltz , Johannes Reuter , Matthias Althoff

The fermion sign problem appearing in the mean-field approximation is considered, and the systematic computational scheme of the free energy is devised by using the Lefschetz-thimble method. We show that the Lefschetz-thimble method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Yuya Tanizaki , Hiromichi Nishimura , Kouji Kashiwa

We investigate the sign problem in 0+1 dimensional QCD at finite chemical potential by using the path optimization method. The SU(3) link variable is complexified to the SL(3,$\mathbb{C}$) link variable, and the integral path is represented…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-11-20 Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa , Akira Ohnishi

The sign problem of relativistic field theories at finite fermion chemical potential has been approached by deforming the domain of integration into complex field space. We present a method for selecting a deformed manifold of integration…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-17 Scott Lawrence

We studied integration contour deformations in the chiral random matrix theory of Stephanov with the goal of alleviating the finite-density sign problem. We considered simple ans\"atze for the deformed integration contours, and optimized…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-31 Matteo Giordano , Attila Pasztor , David Pesznyak , Zoltan Tulipant

We investigate the efficiency of a gauge invariant input to a neural network for the path optimization method. While the path optimization with a completely gauge-fixed link-variable input has successfully tamed the sign problem in a simple…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-02-16 Yusuke Namekawa , Kouji Kashiwa , Akira Ohnishi , Hayato Takase