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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

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

Normalizing flows have recently been applied to the problem of accelerating Markov chains in lattice field theory. We propose a generalization of normalizing flows that allows them to applied to theories with a sign problem. These complex…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-05-26 Scott Lawrence , Yukari Yamauchi

Although numerical simulation in lattice field theory is one of the most effective tools to study non-perturbative properties of field theories, it faces serious obstacles coming from the sign problem in some theories such as finite density…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-12-19 Masahiro Imachi , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama

Non-linear Trajectory Optimisation (TO) methods require good initial guesses to converge to a locally optimal solution. A feasible guess can often be obtained by allocating a large amount of time for the trajectory to complete. However for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Steve Tonneau

Lattice scalar field theories encounter a sign problem when the coupling constant is complex. This is a close cousin of the real-time sign problems that afflict the lattice Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, and a more distant relative of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-28 Scott Lawrence , Hyunwoo Oh , Yukari Yamauchi

Recent progress of the complex Langevin method and the Lefschetz thimble in connection with the sign problem is reviewed. These methods rely on the complexification of the original field manifold and they allow direct simulations of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-12-01 Denes Sexty

We investigate the sign problem in field theories by using the path optimization method with use of the neural network. For theories with the sign problem, integral in the complexified variable space is a promising approach to obtain a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Akira Ohnishi , Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa

We study one-dimensional QCD at finite quark density by using the sign optimization framework. The fermion sign problem is mitigated by deforming the path integral domain, $SU(3)$ to a complexified one ${\cal M} \subset SL(3)$, explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-30 Gokce Basar , Joesph Marincel

We present a new approach for Monte Carlo simulations of lattice quantum spin systems which is able to eliminate the negative sign problem. Its complexity is linear in the volume of the lattice. Its efficiency is tested on a simple…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Galli

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

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

We present a general technique for addressing sign problems that arise in Monte Carlo simulations of field theories. This method deforms the domain of the path integral to a manifold in complex field space that maximizes the average sign…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-06 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo Bedaque , Henry Lamm , Scott Lawrence

We propose new approach to numerical study of quantum spin systems. Our method is based on a fact that one can use any set of states for the path integral as long as it is complete. We apply our method to one-dimensional quantum spin system…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Tomo Munehisa , Yasuko Munehisa

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

Predict and optimize is an increasingly popular decision-making paradigm that employs machine learning to predict unknown parameters of optimization problems. Instead of minimizing the prediction error of the parameters, it trains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Grigorii Veviurko , Wendelin Böhmer , Mathijs de Weerdt

With a Bayesian approach, the linear optics correction algorithm for storage rings is revisited. Starting from the Bayes' theorem, a complete linear optics model is simplified as "likelihood functions" and "prior probability distributions".…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Yongjun Li , Robert Rainer , Weixing Cheng

We consider a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm which is applicable to lattice theories defined on Lefschetz thimbles. In the algorithm, any point (field configuration) on a thimble is parametrized uniquely by the flow-direction and the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-17 H. Fujii , D. Honda , M. Kato , Y. Kikukawa , S. Komatsu , T. Sano

This paper provides a construction method of the nearest graph Laplacian to a matrix identified from measurement data of graph Laplacian dynamics that include biochemical systems, synchronization systems, and multi-agent systems. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Kazuhiro Sato

Supersymmetric models are grounded in the intriguing concept of a hypothetical symmetry that relates bosonic and fermionic particles. This symmetry has profound implications, offering valuable extensions to the Standard Model of particle…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-11-25 Emanuele Mendicelli , David Schaich