English
Related papers

Related papers: Normalizing Flows and the Real-Time Sign Problem

200 papers

We consider the problem of density estimation on Riemannian manifolds. Density estimation on manifolds has many applications in fluid-mechanics, optics and plasma physics and it appears often when dealing with angular variables (such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-10 Mevlana C. Gemici , Danilo Rezende , Shakir Mohamed

Machine-learned normalizing flows can be used in the context of lattice quantum field theory to generate statistically correlated ensembles of lattice gauge fields at different action parameters. This work demonstrates how these…

Monte Carlo calculations in the framework of lattice field theory provide non-perturbative access to the equilibrium physics of quantum fields. When applied to certain fermionic systems, or to the calculation of out-of-equilibrium physics,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-06-23 Scott Lawrence

The recently introduced consistent lattice Boltzmann model with energy conservation [S. Ansumali, I.V. Karlin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260605 (2005)] is extended to the simulation of thermal flows on standard lattices. The two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-16 N. I. Prasianakis , I. V. Karlin

In this work, we propose a new evolving geometric flow (called translating mean curvature flow) for the translating solitons of hypersurfaces in $R^{n+1}$. We study the basic properties, such as positivity preserving property, of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Li Ma

In a recent paper, with Drago and Pinamonti we have introduced a Wetterich-type flow equation for scalar fields on Lorentzian manifolds, using the algebraic approach to perturbative QFT. The equation governs the flow of the effective…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Edoardo D'Angelo , Kasia Rejzner

Flow-based architectures have recently proved to be an efficient tool for numerical simulations of Effective String Theories regularized on the lattice that otherwise cannot be efficiently sampled by standard Monte Carlo methods. In this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-02-18 Michele Caselle , Elia Cellini , Alessandro Nada

In this paper we study the dual Orlicz-Minkowski problem, which is a generalization of the dual Minkowski problem in convex geometry. By considering a geometric flow involving Gauss curvature and functions of normal vectors and radial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Li Chen , YanNan Liu , Jian Lu , Ni Xiang

We construct a lattice field theory method for computing the real-time dynamics of spin systems in a thermal bath. This is done by building on previous work of Takano with Schwinger-Keldysh and functional differentiation techniques. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Neill C. Warrington

In this paper a generalized Gauss curvature flow about a convex hypersurface in the Euclidean $n$-space is studied. This flow is closely related to the Orlicz-Minkowski problem, which involves Gauss curvature and a function of support…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-07 YanNan Liu , Jian Lu

The study of lattice gauge theories with Monte Carlo simulations is hindered by the infamous sign problem that appears under certain circumstances, in particular at non-zero chemical potential. So far, there is no universal method to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-03-27 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , J. Ignacio Cirac , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn , Hana Saito

We establish kinetic Hamiltonian flows in density space embedded with the $L^2$-Wasserstein metric tensor. We derive the Euler-Lagrange equation in density space, which introduces the associated Hamiltonian flows. We demonstrate that many…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Shui-Nee Chow , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou

In 2010s Fleiner introduced a notion of stable flows in directed networks and showed that such a flow always exists and can be found by use of a reduction to the stable allocation problem due to Baiou and Balinski. Recently Cseh and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Alexander Karzanov

We propose a novel simulation strategy for Yang-Mills theories with a complex coupling, based on the Lefschetz thimble decomposition. We envisage, that the approach developed in the present work, can also be adapted to QCD at finite…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-05-19 Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Scherzer , Christian Schmidt , Felix P. G. Ziegler , Felix Ziesché

We introduce matrix generalizations of the Navier--Stokes (NS) equation for fluid flow, and the Kardar--Parisi--Zhang (KPZ) equation for interface growth. The underlying field, velocity for the NS equation, or the height in the case of KPZ,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Kardar , A. Zee

We approach the problem of learning continuous normalizing flows from a dual perspective motivated by entropy-regularized optimal transport, in which continuous normalizing flows are cast as gradients of scalar potential functions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Chris Finlay , Augusto Gerolin , Adam M Oberman , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian

We study the renormalization group flow in general quantum field theories with quenched disorder, focusing on random quantum critical points. We show that in disorder-averaged correlation functions the flow mixes local and non-local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-22 Vladimir Narovlansky , Ofer Aharony

In lattice gauge theory, there exist field transformations that map the theory to the trivial one, where the basic field variables are completely decoupled from one another. Such maps can be constructed systematically by integrating certain…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-04-30 Martin Lüscher

We study the renormalization group flow of $\mathbb{Z}_2$-invariant supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric scalar models in the local potential approximation using functional renormalization group methods. We focus our attention to the fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Tobias Hellwig , Andreas Wipf , Omar Zanusso

In this paper, a generalized lattice Boltzmann (LB) model with a mass source is proposed to solve both incompressible and nearly incompressible Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations. This model can be used to deal with single-phase and two-phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Xiaolei Yuan , Zhenhua Chai , Huili Wang , Baochang Shi