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Path integrals with complex actions are encountered for many physical systems ranging from spin- or mass-imbalanced atomic gases and graphene to quantum chromo-dynamics at finite density to the non-equilibrium evolution of quantum systems.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-01 Lukas Kades , Martin Gärttner , Thomas Gasenzer , Jan M. Pawlowski

We consider a cell-complex in an arbitrary Hausdorff space as a dynamical object that can be coupled to a field defined on the complex. The Langevin equation is then derived for this field. In other words, a noise-field is created resulting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Vanderseypen

We consider a generalized Thirring model in 0+1 dimensions at finite density. In order to deal with the resulting sign problem we employ stochastic quantization, i.e., a complex Langevin evolution. We investigate the convergence properties…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-23 Jan M. Pawlowski , Christian Zielinski

The recently discovered supersymmetric generalizations of Langevin dynamics and Kramers equation can be utilized for the exploration of free energy landscapes of systems whose large time-scale separation hampers the usefulness of standard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Mossa , Cecilia Clementi

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 evolve a scalar field in a fixed Kerr-Schild background geometry to test simple $(3+1)$-dimensional algorithms for singularity excision. We compare both centered and upwind schemes for handling the shift (advection) terms, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. Yo , T. W. Baumgarte , S. L. Shapiro

Simulation-based inference (SBI) enables Bayesian analysis when the likelihood is intractable but model simulations are available. Recent advances in statistics and machine learning, including Approximate Bayesian Computation and deep…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-15 Haoyu Jiang , Yuexi Wang , Yun Yang

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

We analyse the evolution of scalar and gauge fields during a second order phase transition using a Langevin equation approach. We show that topological defects formed during the phase transition are stable to thermal fluctuations. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. P. Martin , A. C. Davis

Monte Carlo studies involving real time dynamics are severely restricted by the sign problem that emerges from highly oscillatory phase of the path integral. In this letter, we present a new method to compute real time quantities on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-24 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Sohan Vartak , Neill C. Warrington

In the numerical simulation of certain field theoretical models, the complex Langevin simulation has been believed to fail due to the violation of ergodicity. We give a detailed analysis of this problem based on a toy model with one degree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Fujimura , K. Okano , L. Schülke , K. Yamagishi , B. Zheng

We show how to construct the optimum superstatistical dynamical model for a given experimentally measured time series. For this purpose we generalise the superstatistics concept and study a Langevin equation with a memory kernel whose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-10 Erik Van der Straeten , Christian Beck

After a short review of one of proposals to avoid complex stochastic processes in Complex Langevin studies, the recent progress in the former is reported. In particular, the new developments allow now to construct positive and normalizable…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-30 Jacek Wosiek , Blazej Ruba

We study numerical methods for the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) with a positive Prony series memory kernel, in which case the GLE can be written in an extended variable Markovian formalism. We propose a new splitting method that is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Manh Hong Duong , Xiaocheng Shang

The numerical sign problem poses a seemingly insurmountable barrier to the simulation of many fascinating systems. We apply neural networks to deform the region of integration, mitigating the sign problem of systems with strongly correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-01 Marcel Rodekamp , Evan Berkowitz , Maria Dincă , Christoph Gäntgen , Stefan Krieg , Thomas Luu

Langevin algorithms are popular Markov chain Monte Carlo methods that are often used to solve high-dimensional large-scale sampling problems in machine learning. The most classical Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm is based on the overdamped…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nian Yao , Pervez Ali , Xihua Tao , Lingjiong Zhu

We derive a family of correctness conditions for complex Langevin simulations. In particular, we show that if in a given theory the expectation values of all observables within a particular space satisfy the theory's Schwinger-Dyson…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-11 Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

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 complexity of molecular dynamics simulations necessitates dimension reduction and coarse-graining techniques to enable tractable computation. The generalized Langevin equation (GLE) describes coarse-grained dynamics in reduced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Francesca Grogan , Huan Lei , Xiantao Li , Nathan A. Baker

A large class of quantum and statistical field theoretical models, encompassing relevant condensed matter and non-abelian gauge systems, are defined in terms of complex actions. As the ordinary Monte-Carlo methods are useless in dealing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Moriconi , M. Moriconi