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We present $\texttt{Maxent}$, a tool for performing analytic continuation of spectral functions using the maximum entropy method. The code operates on discrete imaginary axis datasets (values with uncertainties) and transforms this input to…

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Information about the pairing mechanism for superconductivity is contained in the spectral weight for the anomalous (Gorkov) Green function. In the most general case, this spectral weight can change sign on the positive real axis or even be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-09 A. Reymbaut , D. Bergeron , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We explore artificial neural networks as a tool for the reconstruction of spectral functions from imaginary time Green's functions, a classic ill-conditioned inverse problem. Our ansatz is based on a supervised learning framework in which…

Sparse Bayesian learning has promoted many effective frameworks for brain activity decoding, especially for the reconstruction of muscle activity. However, existing sparse Bayesian learning mainly employs Gaussian distribution as error…

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We study the inverse problem of reconstructing spectral functions from Euclidean correlation functions via machine learning. We propose a novel neural network, SVAE, which is based on the variational autoencoder (VAE) and can be naturally…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-23 S. -Y. Chen , H. -T. Ding , F. -Y. Liu , G. Papp , C. -B. Yang

We present a systematic study of the reconstruction of a non-negative function via maximum entropy approach utilizing the information contained in a finite number of moments of the function. For testing the efficacy of the approach, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Parthapratim Biswas , Arun K. Bhattacharya

Bayesian Generative AI (BayesGen-AI) methods are developed and applied to Bayesian computation. BayesGen-AI reconstructs the posterior distribution by directly modeling the parameter of interest as a mapping (a.k.a. deep learner) from a…

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An efficient and compact approach to the inclusion of dissipative effects in Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulations of electronic systems is introduced. The algorithm is based on two well known methods in the literature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Jesse A. Vaitkus , Jared H. Cole

Analytic continuation aims to reconstruct real-time spectral functions from imaginary-time Green's functions; however, this process is notoriously ill-posed and challenging to solve. We propose a novel neural network architecture, named the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-28 Zhe Zhao , Jingping Xu , Ce Wang , Yaping Yang

We used methods of Bayesian statistical inference and the principle of maximum entropy to analytically continue imaginary-time Green's function generated in quantum Monte Carlo simulations to obtain the real-time Green's functions. For test…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Bonca , J. E. Gubernatis

The ill-posed analytic continuation problem for Green's functions or self-energies can be done using the Pad\'e rational polynomial approximation. However, to extract accurate results from this approximation, high precision input data of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-28 Xing-Jie Han , Hai-Jun Liao , Hai-Dong Xie , Rui-Zhen Huang , Zi Yang Meng , Tao Xiang

The Green's function method has applications in several fields in Physics, from classical differential equations to quantum many-body problems. In the quantum context, Green's functions are correlation functions, from which it is possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Mariana M. Odashima , Beatriz G. Prado , E. Vernek

Information-theoretic Bayesian optimization techniques have become popular for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions due to their non-myopic qualities. Entropy Search and Predictive Entropy Search both consider the entropy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Carl Hvarfner , Frank Hutter , Luigi Nardi

The probabilistic surrogates used by Bayesian optimizers make them popular methods when function evaluations are noisy or expensive to evaluate. While Bayesian optimizers are traditionally used for global optimization, their benefits are…

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We investigate the possibility to assist the numerically ill-posed calculation of spectral properties of interacting quantum systems in thermal equilibrium by extending the imaginary-time simulation to a finite Schwinger-Keldysh contour.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-25 Andreas Dirks , Martin Eckstein , Thomas Pruschke , Philipp Werner

Green's function provides an inherent connection between theoretical analysis and numerical methods for elliptic partial differential equations, and general absence of its closed-form expression necessitates surrogate modeling to guide the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Qi Sun , Shengyan Li , Bowen Zheng , Lili Ju , Xuejun Xu

We present a novel procedure for calculating non-equilibrium two-point Green's functions in the $O(N) \phi^{4}$ theory at large $N$. The non-equilibrium density matrix $\rho$ is constructed via the Jaynes-Gibbs principle of maximal entropy…

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Optimisation problems in science and engineering typically involve finding the ground state (i.e. the minimum energy configuration) of a cost function with respect to many variables. If the variables are corrupted by noise then this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Nicholas Chancellor , Szilard Szoke , Walter Vinci , Gabriel Aeppli , Paul A. Warburton

The diversity of a community that cannot be fully counted must be inferred. The two preeminent inference methods are the MaxEnt method, which uses information in the form of constraints and Bayes' rule which uses information in the form of…

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