English
Related papers

Related papers: Worldvolume tempered Lefschetz thimble method and …

200 papers

As a solution towards the numerical sign problem, we propose a novel Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm, in which molecular dynamics is performed on a continuum set of integration surfaces foliated by the antiholomorphic gradient flow ("the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-03-10 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto

The numerical sign problem has long been a major obstacle to first-principles calculations in various important fields of physics. We report that the recently proposed algorithm, tempered Lefschetz thimble method (TLTM), and its worldvolume…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-30 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto

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

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

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 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 Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method [arXiv:2012.08468] is an efficient and versatile algorithm that mitigates the sign problem while resolving the ergodicity issues inherent in Lefschetz-thimble approaches. We focus on cases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Masafumi Fukuma , Yusuke Namekawa

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method [arXiv:2012.08468] is a reliable and versatile algorithm for addressing the numerical sign problem. It resolves the ergodicity issues commonly encountered in Lefschetz thimble-based…

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

The algorithm based on integration over Lefschetz thimbles is a promising method to resolve the sign problem for complex actions. However, this algorithm often meets a difficulty in actual Monte Carlo calculations because the configuration…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-06 Masafumi Fukuma , Naoya Umeda

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

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method [arXiv:2012.08468] is an efficient algorithm for addressing the numerical sign problem at moderate computational cost. It mitigates the sign problem while avoiding the ergodicity issues…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Masafumi Fukuma , Yusuke Namekawa

We discuss the statistical analysis method for the worldvolume hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) algorithm [arXiv:2012.08468], which was recently introduced to substantially reduce the computational cost of the tempered Lefschetz thimble method.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-07-16 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Yusuke Namekawa

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo method (WV-HMC method) [arXiv:2012.08468] is a reliable and versatile algorithm towards solving the sign problem. Similarly to the tempered Lefschetz thimble method, this method removes the ergodicity…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-08 Masafumi Fukuma

A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo Bedaque

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

The generalized thimble method to treat field theories with sign problems requires repeatedly solving the computationally-expensive holomorphic flow equations. We present a machine learning technique to bypass this problem. The central idea…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-11-15 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo Bedaque , Henry Lamm , Scott Lawrence

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 complex Langevin method and the generalized Lefschetz-thimble method are two closely related approaches to the sign problem, which are both based on complexification of the original dynamical variables. The former can be viewed as a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-06-28 Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

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 generalized Lefschetz thimble method is a promising approach that attempts to solve the sign problem in Monte Carlo methods by deforming the integration contour using the flow equation. Here we point out a general problem that occurs…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-26 Jun Nishimura , Katsuta Sakai , Atis Yosprakob
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›