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Many fascinating systems suffer from a severe (complex action) sign problem preventing us from calculating them with Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations. One promising method to alleviate the sign problem is the transformation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-18 Marcel Rodekamp , Christoph Gäntgen

The quantum Monte Carlo method on asymptotic Lefschetz thimbles is a numerical algorithm devised specifically for alleviation of the sign problem appearing in the simulations of quantum many-body systems. In this method, the sign problem is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-26 Petr A. Mishchenko , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

The tempered Lefschetz thimble method is a parallel-tempering algorithm towards solving the numerical sign problem. It uses the flow time of the gradient flow as a tempering parameter and is expected to tame both the sign and multimodal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Naoya Umeda

The tempered Lefschetz thimble method (TLTM) is a parallel-tempering algorithm towards solving the numerical sign problem. It tames both the sign and ergodicity problems simultaneously by tempering the system with the flow time of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-07 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Naoya Umeda

Deforming the domain of integration after complexification of the field variables is an intriguing idea to tackle the sign problem. In thimble regularization the domain of integration is deformed into an union of manifolds called Lefschetz…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-30 Kevin Zambello , Francesco Di Renzo , Simran Singh

The numerical sign problem is a major obstacle to the quantitative understanding of many important physical systems with first-principles calculations. Typical examples for such systems include finite-density QCD, strongly-correlated…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-05-03 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Yusuke Namekawa

Thimble regularization as a solution to the sign problem has been successfully put at work for a few toy models. Given the non trivial nature of the method (also from the algorithmic point of view) it is compelling to provide evidence that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-21 G. Eruzzi , F. Di Renzo

A solution to the sign problem is the so-called "Lefschetz thimble approach" where the domain of integration for field variables in the path integral is deformed from the real axis to a sub-manifold in the complex space. For properly chosen…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-01 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Gregory W. Ridgway , Neill C. Warrington

The tempered Lefschetz thimble method (TLTM) is a parallel-tempering algorithm towards solving the numerical sign problem, where the system is tempered by the antiholomorphic gradient flow to tame both the sign and ergodicity problems…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-14 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Naoya Umeda

The Picard-Lefschetz theory has been attracting much attention as a tool to evaluate a multi-variable integral with a complex weight, which appears in various important problems in theoretical physics. The idea is to deform the integration…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-10 Genki Fujisawa , Jun Nishimura , Katsuta Sakai , Atis Yosprakob

The properties of strongly-coupled lattice gauge theories at finite density as well as in real time have largely eluded first-principles studies on the lattice. This is due to the failure of importance sampling for systems with a complex…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael Fromm , Owe Philipsen , Michael Spannowsky , Christopher Winterowd

Lefschetz thimbles regularisation of (lattice) field theories was put forward as a possible solution to the sign problem. Despite elegant and conceptually simple, it has many subtleties, a major one boiling down to a plain question: how…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-04 Francesco Di Renzo , Simran Singh , Kevin Zambello

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

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 Picard-Lefschetz theory offers a promising tool to solve the sign problem in QCD and other field theories with complex path-integral weight. In this paper the Lefschetz-thimble approach is examined in simple fermionic models which share…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Takuya Kanazawa , Yuya Tanizaki

Complex Langevin (CL) is a computational method to circumvent the numerical sign problem with applications in finite-density quantum chromodynamics and the real-time dynamics of quantum field theories. It has long been known that, depending…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-24 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations of the pure compact U(1) gauge theory are performed with the Tsallis weight. The simulations show that the use of the Tsallis weight enhances the tunneling rate between metastable states.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Tetsuya Takaishi

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

The numerical sign problem remains one of the central challenges in computational physics. The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method has recently been proposed as a reliable and computationally efficient algorithm that crucially…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-31 Masafumi Fukuma

Lattice Monte Carlo calculations of interacting systems on non-bipartite lattices exhibit an oscillatory imaginary phase known as the phase or sign problem, even at zero chemical potential. One method to alleviate the sign problem is to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Jan-Lukas Wynen , Evan Berkowitz , Stefan Krieg , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer