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We present a computational strategy for reducing the sign problem in the evaluation of high dimensional integrals with non-positive definite weights. The method involves stochastic sampling with a positive semidefinite weight that is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A G Moreira , S A Baeurle , G H Fredrickson

Monte Carlo simulations away from half-filling suffer from a sign problem that can be reduced by deforming the contour of integration. Such a transformation, which induces a Jacobian determinant in the Boltzmann weight, can be implemented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Marcel Rodekamp , Evan Berkowitz , Christoph Gäntgen , Stefan Krieg , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer

The complex Langevin (CL) method shows significant potential in addressing the numerical sign problem. Nonetheless, it often produces incorrect results when used without any stabilization techniques. Leveraging insights from previous…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-17 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

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

We present a new, for plasma physics, highly efficient multilevel Monte Carlo numerical method for simulating Coulomb collisions. The method separates and optimally minimizes the finite-timestep and finite-sampling errors inherent in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 M. S. Rosin , L. F. Ricketson , A. M. Dimits , R. E. Caflisch , B. I. Cohen

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

Quantum field theories (QFTs) at finite densities of matter generically involve complex actions. Standard Monte-Carlo simulations based upon importance sampling, which have been producing quantitative first principle results in particle…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-24 Christof Gattringer , Kurt Langfeld

Using complex Langevin method we probe the possibility of dynamical supersymmetry breaking in supersymmetric quantum mechanics models with complex actions. The models we consider are invariant under the combined operation of parity and time…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-10 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar

A continuous-time path integral Quantum Monte Carlo method using the directed-loop algorithm is developed to simulate the Anderson single-impurity model in the occupation number basis. Although the method suffers from a sign problem at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaebeom Yoo , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Harold U. Baranger

Monte Carlo simulation of gauge theories with a $\theta$ term is known to be extremely difficult due to the sign problem. Recently there has been major progress in solving this problem based on the idea of complexifying dynamical variables.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-05-08 Mitsuaki Hirasawa , Akira Matsumoto , Jun Nishimura , Atis Yosprakob

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

We present an early investigation into the use of neural diffusion processes for global optimisation, focusing on Zhang et al.'s Path Integral Sampler. One can use the Boltzmann distribution to formulate optimization as solving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Max McGuinness , Eirik Fladmark , Francisco Vargas

A method is proposed to handle the sign problem in the simulation of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures. In general, this new approach, which is based on renormalisation blocking, is shown to yield statistical errors…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 J. F. Markham , T. D. Kieu

A method is presented to tackle the sign problem in the simulations of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures. In general, this new approach is shown to yield statistical errors smaller than the crude Monte Carlo using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 T D Kieu , C J Griffin

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

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are the gold standard for studying equilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems -- their phase transitions, ground and thermal state properties. However, in many interesting situations QMC methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Dominik Hangleiter , Ingo Roth , Daniel Nagaj , Jens Eisert

We study the utility of a complex Langevin (CL) equation as an alternative for the Monte Carlo (MC) procedure in the evaluation of expectation values occurring in fermionic many-body problems. We find that a CL approach is natural in cases…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Chris Adami , Steven E. Koonin

Lefschetz thimbles have been proposed recently as a possible solution to the complex action problem (sign problem) in Monte Carlo simulations. Here we discuss pure abelian gauge theory with a complex coupling $\beta$ and apply the concept…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-28 Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Scherzer , Christian Schmidt , Felix P. G. Ziegler , Felix Ziesché

A restricted path integral method is proposed to simulate a type of quantum system or Hamiltonian called a sum of controlled few-fermions on a classical computer using Monte Carlo without a numerical sign problem. Then a universality is…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 David H. Wei

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