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The method of complex Langevin simulations is a tool that can be used to tackle the complex-action problem encountered, for instance, in finite-density lattice quantum chromodynamics or real-time lattice field theories. The method is based…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-18 Michael Mandl , Michael W. Hansen , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

Nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems is one of the main targets of quantum simulations. This focus - together with rapid advances in quantum-computing hardware - has driven increasing applications in high-energy physics,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-21 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Yuta Kikuchi

The Complex Langevin (CL) method sometimes shows convergence to the wrong limit, even though the Schwinger-Dyson Equations (SDE) are fulfilled. We analyze this problem in a more general context for the case of one complex variable. We prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Lorenzo Luis Salcedo , Erhard Seiler

The great majority of algorithms employed in the study of lattice field theory are based on Monte Carlo's importance sampling method, i.e. on probability interpretation of the Boltzmann weight. Unfortunately in many theories of interest one…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-03 Lorenzo Bongiovanni

The three-dimensional SU(3) spin model is an effective Polyakov loop model for QCD at nonzero temperature and density. It suffers from a sign problem at nonzero chemical potential. We revisit this model using complex Langevin dynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-03 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James

We discuss recent developments regarding the use of kernels in complex Langevin simulations. In particular, we outline how a kernel can be used to solve the problem of wrong convergence in a simple toy model. Since conventional correctness…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-17 Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

In recent years, the quantum computing method has been used to address the sign problem in traditional Monte Carlo lattice gauge theory (LGT) simulations. We propose that the Coulomb gauge (CG) should be used in quantum simulations of LGT.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-08 Tianyin Li

We present our latest results on the application of the complex Langevin method to one- and two-dimensional QCD. Although the method is stable, it unfortunately converges to an incorrect result when applied as such. After applying…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-08-24 Jacques Bloch , Johannes Mahr , Sebastian Schmalzbauer

We present a quantum simulation strategy for a (1+1)D SU(2) non-abelian lattice gauge theory with dynamical matter, a hardcore-gluon Hamiltonian Yang-Mills, tailored to a six-level trapped-ion qudit quantum processor, as recently…

We study the mechanism of the gauge cooling technique to stabilize the complex Langevin method in the one-dimensional periodic setting. In this case, we find the exact solutions for the gauge transform which minimizes the Frobenius norm of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Zhenning Cai , Yana Di , Xiaoyu Dong

Complex Langevin simulations are an attempt to solve the sign (or complex-action) problem encountered in various physical systems of interest. The method is based on a complexification of the underlying degrees of freedom and an evolution…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-08 Michael W. Hansen , Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

We introduce a stable and efficient complex Langevin (CL) scheme to enable the first numerical simulations of the coherent-states (CS) formulation of polymer field theory. In contrast with Edwards' well known auxiliary-field (AF) framework,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-18 Xingkun Man , Kris T. Delaney , Michael C. Villet , Henri Orland , Glenn H. Fredrickson

We propose a protocol for the scalable quantum simulation of SU($N$)$\times$U(1) lattice gauge theories with alkaline-earth like atoms in optical lattices in both one- and two-dimensional systems. The protocol exploits the combination of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-27 Federica Maria Surace , Pierre Fromholz , Francesco Scazza , Marcello Dalmonte

We introduce a projected complex Langevin (CL) numerical sampling method -- a fictitious Langevin dynamics scheme that uses numerical projection to sample a constrained stationary distribution with highly oscillatory character. Despite the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-04 Ethan C. McGarrigle , Hector D. Ceniceros , Glenn H. Fredrickson

The complex Langevin method is a promising approach to the complex-action problem based on a fictitious time evolution of complexified dynamical variables under the influence of a Gaussian noise. Although it is known to have a restricted…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-01-04 Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

Quantum kinks in gauge theories on $R^2\otimes S^1$ space-time are studied. To obtain the, explicit profile of the kinks, we calculated effective actions including derivative corrections for vacuum gauge fields on $S^1$ at zero, and finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-30 Takuya Maki , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

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

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main challenge of constructing numerical schemes with unconditional energy stabilities for this model is how to design proper temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Xiaofeng Yang

The chemical Langevin equation (CLE) is a popular simulation method to probe the stochastic dynamics of chemical systems. The CLE's main disadvantage is its break down in finite time due to the problem of evaluating square roots of negative…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-22 David Schnoerr , Guido Sanguinetti , Ramon Grima

Tensor-network methods enable probing dynamics of strongly interacting quantum many-body systems, including gauge theories, via Hamiltonian simulation, hence bypassing sign problems. They also have the potential to inform efficient…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-02-18 Emil Mathew , Navya Gupta , Saurabh V. Kadam , Aniruddha Bapat , Jesse Stryker , Zohreh Davoudi , Indrakshi Raychowdhury