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The hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm is arguably the most efficient sampling method for general probability distributions of continuous variables. Together with exact Fourier acceleration (EFA) the HMC becomes equivalent to direct…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-23 Johann Ostmeyer

We describe a Fourier Accelerated Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm suitable for dynamical fermion simulations of non-gauge models. We test the algorithm in supersymmetric quantum mechanics viewed as a one-dimensional Euclidean lattice field…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-28 S. Catterall , S. Karamov

Fourier acceleration is a technique used in Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations to decrease the autocorrelation between subsequent field configurations in the generated ensemble. It has been shown, in the perturbative limit, to eliminate the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-25 Cameron Cianci , Luchang Jin , Joshua Swaim

Strongly correlated fermionic systems are of great interest in condensed matter physics and numerical methods are indispensable tools for their study. However, existing approaches such as exact diagonalization (ED) and stochastic quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Finn L. Temmen , Martina Gisti , David J. Luitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer

We propose a hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) technique applicable to high-dimensional multivariate normal distributions that effectively samples along chaotic trajectories. The method is predicated on the freedom of choice of the HMC momentum…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-04-26 Nirag Kadakia

The analysis developed by L\"uscher and Schaefer of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm is extended to include Fourier acceleration. We show for the $\phi^4$ theory that Fourier acceleration substantially changes the structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-14 Norman H. Christ , Evan W. Wickenden

We present the preliminary tests on two modifications of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm. Both algorithms are designed to travel much farther in the Hamiltonian phase space for each trajectory and reduce the autocorrelations among…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Guido Cossu , Peter Boyle , Norman Christ , Chulwoo Jung , Andreas Jüttner , Francesco Sanfilippo

In this paper we propose new algorithm to reduce autocorrelation in Markov chain Monte-Carlo algorithms for euclidean field theories on the lattice. Our proposing algorithm is the Hybrid Monte-Carlo algorithm (HMC) with restricted Boltzmann…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-12-13 Akinori Tanaka , Akio Tomiya

For an asymptotically free theory, a promising strategy for eliminating Critical Slowing Down (CSD) is na\"ive Fourier acceleration. This requires the introduction of gauge-fixing into the action, in order to isolate the asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-27 Ahmed Sheta , Yidi Zhao , Norman H. Christ

This work introduces a novel and efficient Bayesian federated learning algorithm, namely, the Federated Averaging stochastic Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (FA-HMC), for parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification. We establish rigorous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jiajun Liang , Qian Zhang , Wei Deng , Qifan Song , Guang Lin

Existing rigorous convergence guarantees for the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm use Gaussian auxiliary momentum variables, which are crucially symmetrically distributed. We present a novel convergence analysis for HMC utilizing new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Soumyadip Ghosh , Yingdong Lu , Tomasz Nowicki

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a Markov chain algorithm for sampling from a high-dimensional distribution with density $e^{-f(x)}$, given access to the gradient of $f$. A particular case of interest is that of a $d$-dimensional Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-27 Simon Apers , Sander Gribling , Dániel Szilágyi

We introduce a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) methodology based on a randomized selection of integration times, referred to as eHMC, where "e" stands for empirical. The approach relies on an offline calibration phase that leverages…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-25 Changye Wu , Pierre Pudlo , Christian P. Robert , Julien Stoehr

Simulations of QCD suffer from severe critical slowing down towards the continuum limit. This problem is known to be prominent in the topological charge, however, all observables are affected to various degree by these slow modes in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-15 Stefan Schaefer , Francesco Virotta

Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful tool to investigate the thermodynamic properties of atomic systems. In practice however, sampling of the complete configuration space is often hindered by high energy barriers between different regions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-04 Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker

The performance of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulations crucially depends on both the integration timestep and the number of integration steps. We present an adaptive general-purpose framework to automatically tune such parameters, based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Henrik Christiansen , Federico Errica , Francesco Alesiani

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is an efficient method of simulating smooth distributions and has motivated the widely used No-U-turn Sampler (NUTS) and software Stan. We build on NUTS and the technique of "unbiased sampling" to design HMC…

Computation · Statistics 2022-12-26 George M. Leigh , Amanda R. Northrop

Motivated by the similarity to QCD, specifically the property of asymptotic freedom, we simulate the dynamics of the SU(2) $\times$ SU(2) model in two dimensions using the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. By introducing Fourier Acceleration,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-04 Roger Horsley , Brian Pendleton , Julian Wack

Improved staggered fermion formulations are a popular choice for lattice QCD calculations. Historically, the algorithm used for such calculations has been the inexact R algorithm, which has systematic errors that only vanish as the square…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. Clark , A. D. Kennedy

The Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm is adapted to the simulation of a system of classical degrees of freedom coupled to non self-interacting lattices fermions. The diagonalization of the Hamiltonian matrix is avoided by introducing a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Alonso , L. A. Fernandez , F. Guinea , V. Laliena , V. Martin-Mayor
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