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This review explores the Complex Langevin Method (CLM), a stochastic quantization technique designed to address the sign problem in quantum field theories with complex actions. Beginning with foundational principles, the review examines the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-04 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar

At nonzero chemical potential the numerical sign problem in lattice field theory limits the use of standard algorithms based on importance sampling. Complex Langevin dynamics provides a possible solution, but it has to be applied with care.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-15 Gert Aarts , Lorenzo Bongiovanni , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

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 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

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 complex Langevin method, a numerical method used to compute the ensemble average with a complex partition function, often suffers from runaway instability. We study the regularization of the complex Langevin method via augmenting the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Zhenning Cai , Yang Kuang , Hong Kiat Tan

Thimble regularisation of lattice field theories has been proposed as a solution to the infamous sign problem. It is conceptually very clean and powerful, but it is in practice limited by a potentially very serious issue: in general many…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-22 Francesco Di Renzo , Kevin Zambello

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

We investigate a simple model using the numerical simulation in the complex Langevin equation (CLE) and the analytical approximation with the Gaussian Ansatz. We find that the Gaussian Ansatz captures the essential and even quantitative…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-07 Yuya Abe , Kenji Fukushima

The complex Langevin method is a leading candidate for solving the so-called sign problem occurring in various physical situations. Its most vexing problem is that in some cases it produces `convergence to the wrong limit'. In the first…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-27 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Erhard Seiler , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

Deforming the domain of integration after complexification of the field variables is an intriguing idea to tackle the sign problem. In thimble regularization the domain of integration is deformed into an union of manifolds called Lefschetz…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-30 Kevin Zambello , Francesco Di Renzo , Simran Singh

The Lefschetz thimble method, i.e., the integration along the steepest descent cycles, is an idea to evade the sign problem by complexifying the theory. We discuss that such steepest descent cycles can be identified as ground-state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-19 Kenji Fukushima , Yuya Tanizaki

We consider the sign problem for classical spin models at complex $\beta =1/g_0^2$ on $L\times L$ lattices. We show that the tensor renormalization group method allows reliable calculations for larger Im$\beta$ than the reweighting Monte…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-01-15 Alan Denbleyker , Yuzhi Liu , Y. Meurice , M. P. Qin , T. Xiang , Z. Y. Xie , J. F. Yu , Haiyuan Zou

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

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

The complex Langevin method is a leading candidate for solving the sign problem occurring in various physical situations, notably QCD at finite chemical potential. Its most vexing problem is `convergence to the wrong limit', where the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-10-27 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Erhard Seiler , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

Tikhonov regularization is one of the most commonly used methods of regularization of ill-posed problems. In the setting of finite element solutions of elliptic partial differential control problems, Tikhonov regularization amounts to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats Larson

This paper introduces new solvers for the computation of low-rank approximate solutions to large-scale linear problems, with a particular focus on the regularization of linear inverse problems. Although Krylov methods incorporating explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Silvia Gazzola , Chang Meng , James Nagy

A final goal for thimble regularization of lattice field theories is the application to lattice QCD and the study of its phase diagram. Gauge theories pose a number of conceptual and algorithmic problems, some of which can be addressed even…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-21 F. Di Renzo , G. Eruzzi

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