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Recently there has been remarkable progress in solving the sign problem, which occurs in investigating statistical systems with a complex weight. The two promising methods, the complex Langevin method and the Lefschetz thimble method, share…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

We study the sign problem in the Hubbard model on the hexagonal lattice away from half-filling using the Lefschetz thimbles method. We identify the saddle points, reduce their amount, and perform quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-13 Maksim Ulybyshev , Christopher Winterowd , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

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

The QCD at finite density is not well understood yet, where standard Monte Carlo simulation suffers from the sign problem. In order to overcome the sign problem, the method of Lefschetz thimble has been explored. Basically, the original…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Shoichiro Tsutsui , Takahiro M. Doi

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

We propose a new approach to circumvent the sign problem in which the integration path is optimized to control the sign problem. We give a trial function specifying the integration path in the complex plane and tune it to optimize the cost…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-12-13 Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa , Akira Ohnishi

Monte Carlo simulations are useful tools for modeling quantum systems, but in some cases they suffer from a sign problem, leading to an exponential slow down in their convergence to a value. While solving the sign problem is generically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 T. C. Mooney , Jacob Bringewatt , Neill C. Warrington , Lucas T. Brady

Monte Carlo simulations of lattice quantum field theories on Lefschetz thimbles are non trivial. We discuss a new Monte Carlo algorithm based on the idea of computing contributions to the functional integral which come from complete flow…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-28 Francesco Di Renzo , Giovanni Eruzzi

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

Solving the Stefan problem, also referred as the heat conduction problem with phase change, is a necessary step to solve phase change problems with convection. In this article, we are interested in using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Francky Luddens , Corentin Lothodé , Ionut Danaila

The Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) method is commonly used for inverting models used to describe geothermal, groundwater, or oil and gas reservoirs. In previous studies LM parameter updates have been made tractable for highly parameterized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Elvar K. Bjarkason , Oliver J. Maclaren , John P. O'Sullivan , Michael J. O'Sullivan

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

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 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

We develop a way of improving complex Langevin dynamics motivated by the Lefschetz-thimble decomposition of integrals. In our method, arbitrary observables of an original model with multiple Lefschetz thimbles are computed by a modified…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-10-12 Shoichiro Tsutsui , Takahiro M. Doi

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

Sampling from high-dimensional distributions is a fundamental problem in statistical research and practice. However, great challenges emerge when the target density function is unnormalized and contains isolated modes. We tackle this…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-11 Yixuan Qiu , Xiao Wang

It is sometimes speculated that the sign problem that afflicts many quantum field theories might be reduced or even eliminated by choosing an alternative domain of integration within a complexified extension of the path integral (in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-07-14 AuroraScience Collaboration , Marco Cristoforetti , Francesco Di Renzo , Luigi Scorzato

The high Weissenberg number problem has been a persistent challenge in the numerical simulation of viscoelastic fluid flows. This paper presents an improved lattice Boltzmann method for solving viscoelastic flow problems at high Weissenberg…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 Yuan Yu , Siwei Chen , Lei Wang , Hai-zhuan Yuan , Shi Shu

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