English
Related papers

Related papers: Equivariant flow-based sampling for lattice gauge …

200 papers

Continuous normalizing flows are known to be highly expressive and flexible, which allows for easier incorporation of large symmetries and makes them a powerful computational tool for lattice field theories. Building on previous work, we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-22 Mathis Gerdes , Pim de Haan , Roberto Bondesan , Miranda C. N. Cheng

Recent results suggest that flow-based algorithms may provide efficient sampling of field distributions for lattice field theory applications, such as studies of quantum chromodynamics and the Schwinger model. In this work, we provide a…

We demonstrate that gauge equivariant diffusion models can accurately model the physics of non-Abelian lattice gauge theory using the Metropolis-adjusted annealed Langevin algorithm (MAALA), as exemplified by computations in two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-28 Gert Aarts , Diaa E. Habibi , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Thomas R. Ranner , Lingxiao Wang , Wei Wang , Qianteng Zhu

The Hamiltonian dynamics of a compressible inviscid fluid is formulated as a gauge theory. The idea of gauge equivalence is exploited to unify the study of apparantly distinct physical problems and solutions of new models can be generated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Ghosh

We study the possibility of using multilevel algorithms for the computation of correlation functions of gradient flow observables. For each point in the correlation function an approximate flow is defined which depends only on links in a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-04-13 Miguel García Vera , Stefan Schaefer

We propose a continuous normalizing flow for sampling from the high-dimensional probability distributions of Quantum Field Theories in Physics. In contrast to the deep architectures used so far for this task, our proposal is based on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Pim de Haan , Corrado Rainone , Miranda C. N. Cheng , Roberto Bondesan

We develop diffusion models for lattice gauge theories which build on the concept of stochastic quantization. This framework is applied to $U(1)$ gauge theory in $1+1$ dimensions. We show that a model trained at one small inverse coupling…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-28 Qianteng Zhu , Gert Aarts , Wei Wang , Kai Zhou , Lingxiao Wang

In lattice quantum field theory studies, parameters defining the lattice theory must be tuned toward criticality to access continuum physics. Commonly used Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods suffer from critical slowing down in this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-04 Gurtej Kanwar

In theories with topological sectors, such as lattice QCD and four-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories with periodic boundary conditions, conventional update algorithms suffer from topological freezing due to large action barriers separating…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-07 Timo Eichhorn , Gianluca Fuwa , Christian Hoelbling , Lukas Varnhorst

We present a trainable framework for efficiently generating gauge configurations, and discuss ongoing work in this direction. In particular, we consider the problem of sampling configurations from a 4D $SU(3)$ lattice gauge theory, and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-12-19 Sam Foreman , Xiao-Yong Jin , James C. Osborn

We introduce a novel technique to numerically calculate R\'enyi entanglement entropies in lattice quantum field theory using generative models. We describe how flow-based approaches can be combined with the replica trick using a custom…

We introduce LeapfrogLayers, an invertible neural network architecture that can be trained to efficiently sample the topology of a 2D $U(1)$ lattice gauge theory. We show an improvement in the integrated autocorrelation time of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-01-17 Sam Foreman , Xiao-Yong Jin , James C. Osborn

The recent introduction of Machine Learning techniques, especially Normalizing Flows, for the sampling of lattice gauge theories has shed some hope on improving the sampling efficiency of the traditional Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-09-21 David Albandea , Luigi Del Debbio , Pilar Hernández , Richard Kenway , Joe Marsh Rossney , Alberto Ramos

The recent introduction of machine learning techniques, especially normalizing flows, for the sampling of lattice gauge theories has shed some hope on improving the sampling efficiency of the traditional HMC algorithm. Naive use of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-06 David Albandea , Luigi Del Debbio , Pilar Hernández , Richard Kenway , Joe Marsh Rossney , Alberto Ramos

A new algorithm for simulating compact U(1) lattice gauge theory in three dimensions is presented which is based on global changes in the configuration space. We show that this algorithm provides an effective way to extract partition…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Alet , B. Lucini , M. Vettorazzo

In our previous studies [1, 2], we confirmed that a quantum annealer can be used for importance sampling of gauge theories. In this paper, we extend the previous results to larger 2-dimensional and 4-dimensional lattices to generate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-03 Jangho Kim , Thomas Luu , Wolfgang Unger

We develop a methodology based on out-of-equilibrium simulations to mitigate topological freezing when approaching the continuum limit of lattice gauge theories. We reduce the autocorrelation of the topological charge employing open…

We present an algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations which is able to overcome the suppression of transitions between the phases in compact U(1) lattice gauge theory in 4 dimensions.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 W. Kerler , C. Rebbi , A. Weber

We generalize the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm with a stack of neural network layers and evaluate its ability to sample from different topologies in a two dimensional lattice gauge theory. We demonstrate that our model is able to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-05-10 Sam Foreman , Xiao-Yong Jin , James C. Osborn

Sampling from high-dimensional and structured probability distributions is a fundamental challenge in computational physics, particularly in the context of lattice field theory (LFT), where generating field configurations efficiently is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jehu Martinez , Andrea Delgado