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We explore applications of the maximum entropy method (MEM) to determine properties of unstable particles using the four-dimensional O(4) $\phi^4$ theory as a laboratory. The spectral function of the correlation function of the unstable…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Yamazaki , N. Ishizuka

The canonical approach, which was developed for solving the sign problem, may suffer from a new type of sign problem. In the canonical approach, the grand partition function is written as a fugacity expansion: $Z_G(\mu,T) = \sum_n Z_C(n,T)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-05-09 V. A. Goy , V. Bornyakov , D. Boyda , A. Molochkov , A. Nakamura , A. Nikolaev , V. Zakharov

High-dimensional multimodal sampling problems from lattice field theory (LFT) have become important benchmarks for machine learning assisted sampling methods. We show that GPU-accelerated particle methods, Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 David Yallup

The negative sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of cluster impurity problems is the major bottleneck in cluster dynamical mean field calculations. In this paper we systematically investigate the dependence of the sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 Hiroshi Shinaoka , Yusuke Nomura , Silke Biermann , Matthias Troyer , Philipp Werner

A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo Bedaque

The classical Maximum Entropy (ME) problem consists of determining a probability distribution function (pdf) from a finite set of expectations of known functions. The solution depends on $N+1$ Lagrange multipliers which are determined by…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mohammad-Djafari

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods can very accurately compute ground state properties of quantum systems. We applied these methods to a system of boson hard spheres to get exact, infinite system size results for the ground state at several…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Mark Dewing

The path integral formulation of quantum mechanical problems including fermions is often affected by a severe numerical sign problem. We show how such a sign problem can be alleviated by a judiciously chosen constant imaginary offset to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-23 Christoph Gäntgen , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Marcel Rodekamp

The paper proposes a new message passing algorithm for cycle-free factor graphs. The proposed "entropy message passing" (EMP) algorithm may be viewed as sum-product message passing over the entropy semiring, which has previously appeared in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Velimir M. Ilic , Miomir S. Stankovic , Branimir T. Todorovic

Transformers suffer from the computational overhead of their quadratic dependence on the length of sequences processed. We present three methods, all adding an intermediate step between training and inference/generation, which extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 R. I. Cukier

A recent technique, proposed to alleviate the ``sign problem disease'', is discussed in details. As well known the ground state of a given Hamiltonian $H$ can be obtained by applying the imaginary time propagator $e^{-H \tau}$ to a given…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Sorella , L. Capriotti

Monte Carlo methods have led to profound insights into the strong-coupling behaviour of lattice gauge theories and produced remarkable results such as first-principles computations of hadron masses. Despite tremendous progress over the last…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-15 Anuj Apte , Anthony Ashmore , Clay Cordova , Tzu-Chen Huang

$Z(2)$ lattice gauge theory plays an important role in the study of the threshold probability of Quantum Error Correction (QEC) for a quantum code. For certain QEC codes, such as the well-known Kitaev's toric/surface code, one can find a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-01-24 Seyong Kim

We revisit old ideas that smearing or blocking an SU(N) lattice gauge field, or averaging over an ensemble of fields created in the neighbourhood of that field, can reduce the high frequency fluctuations sufficiently that the naive lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-02-08 Michael Teper

Efficient continuous time quantum Monte Carlo (CT-QMC) algorithms that do not suffer from time discretization errors have become the state-of-the-art for most discrete quantum models. They have not been widely used yet for fermionic quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-08 Mauro Iazzi , Matthias Troyer

Topological charge distributions in 2 dimensional CP^2 model with theta-term is calculated. In strong coupling regions, topological charge distribution is approximately given by Gaussian form as a function of topological charge and this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Masahiro Imachi , Shouhei Kanou , Hiroshi Yoneyama

The montecarlo method, which is quite commonly used to solve maximum entropy problems in statistical physics, can actually be used to solve inverse problems in a much wider context. The probability distribution which maximizes entropy can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Naudts

We present two unconventional methods of extracting information from hadronic 2-point functions produced by Monte Carlo simulations. The first is an extension of earlier work by Leinweber which combines a QCD Sum Rule approach with lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Chris Allton , Danielle Blythe , Jonathan Clowser

We present a practical solution to the "sign problem" in the auxiliary field Monte Carlo approach to the nuclear shell model. The method is based on extrapolation from a continuous family of problem-free Hamiltonians. To demonstrate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Alhassid , D. J. Dean , S. E. Koonin , G. Lang , W. E. Ormand

The equilibrium properties of a single quantum particle (qp) interacting with a classical gas for a wide range of temperatures that explore the system's behavior in the classical as well as in the quantum regime is investigated. Both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Mark O'Callaghan , Bruce N. Miller