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We present an adaptive multigrid solver for application to the non-Hermitian Wilson-Dirac system of QCD. The key components leading to the success of our proposed algorithm are the use of an adaptive projection onto coarse grids that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-02 R. Babich , J. Brannick , R. C. Brower , M. A. Clark , T. A. Manteuffel , S. F. McCormick , J. C. Osborn , C. Rebbi

To numerically solve a generic elliptic equation on two-dimensional domains with rectangular Cartesian grids, we propose a cut-cell geometric multigrid method that features (1) general algorithmic steps that apply to two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Jiyu Liu , Zhixuan Li , Jiatu Yan , Zhiqi Li , Qinghai Zhang

Purpose: The computation methods for modeling, controlling and optimizing the transforming grid are evolving rapidly. We review and systemize knowledge for a special class of computation methods that solve large-scale power grid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Amritanshu Pandey , Mads Almassalkhi , Sam Chevalier

In lattice QCD computations a substantial amount of work is spent in solving linear systems arising in Wilson's discretization of the Dirac equations. We show first numerical results of the extension of the two-level DD-\alpha AMG method to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-07-24 A. Frommer , K. Kahl , S. Krieg , B. Leder , M. Rottmann

Adaptive multi-grid methods have proven very successful in dealing with critical slow down for the Wilson-Dirac solver in lattice gauge theory. Multi-grid algorithms developed for Staggered fermions using the K\"ahler-Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-04-28 Venkitesh Ayyar , Richard Brower , M. A. Clark , Mathias Wagner , Evan Weinberg

We propose a locally one dimensional (LOD) finite difference method for multidimensional Riesz fractional diffusion equation with variable coefficients on a finite domain. The numerical method is second-order convergent in both space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Minghua Chen , Yantao Wang , Xiao Cheng , Weihua Deng

Given a multigrid procedure for linear systems with coefficient matrices $A_n$, we discuss the optimality of a related multigrid procedure with the same smoother and the same projector, when applied to properly related algebraic problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-03 Stefano Serra-Capizzano , Cristina Tablino Possio

Lattice QCD calculations have been conducted using large-scale classical computers based on the Lagrangian formalism of field theory for the past 40 years. On the other hand, the advent of quantum computers has brought increasing attention…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-09 Etsuko Itou

Computing at the exascale level is expected to be affected by a significantly higher rate of faults, due to increased component counts as well as power considerations. Therefore, current day numerical algorithms need to be reexamined as to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

Lattice field theory (LFT) is the standard non-perturbative method to perform numerical calculations of quantum field theory. However, the typical bottleneck of fermionic lattice calculations is the inversion of the Dirac matrix. This…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-26 Felipe Attanasio , Marc Bauer , Jelle Dijkstra , Timoteo Lee , Jan M. Pawlowski , Wolfram Pernice

We report on the first successful QCD multigrid algorithm which demonstrates constant convergence rates independent of quark mass and lattice volume for the Wilson Dirac operator. The new ingredient is the adaptive method for constructing…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-04-15 Ronald Babich , James Brannick , Richard C. Brower , Michael A. Clark , Saul D. Cohen , James C. Osborn , Claudio Rebbi

We study the exact counting problem for all lattice rectangles contained in the square $[0,n)\times[0,n)$, including non-axis-parallel ones. Starting from the standard parametrization by a primitive direction $(u,v)$ and two side lengths,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Dmitry Babichev , Sergey Babichev

In master-field simulations of lattice QCD, the expectation values of interest are obtained from a single or at most a few representative gauge-field configurations on very large lattices. If the light quarks are included, the generation of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-06-12 Anthony Francis , Patrick Fritzsch , Martin Lüscher , Antonio Rago

We consider recent progress in algorithms for generating gauge field configurations that include the dynamical effects of light fermions. We survey what has been achieved in recent state-of-the-art computations, and examine the trade-offs…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 A. D. Kennedy

The large sparse linear systems arising from the finite element or finite difference discretization of elliptic PDEs can be solved directly via, e.g., nested dissection or multifrontal methods. Such techniques reorder the nodes in the grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Adrianna Gillman , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

The Iteratively Smoothing Unigrid algorithm (ISU), a new multigrid method for computing propagators in Lattice Gauge Theory, is explained. The main idea is to compute good (i.e.\ smooth) interpolation operators in an iterative way. This…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin Baker

In this paper, a novel multigrid method based on Newton iteration is proposed to solve nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Instead of handling the eigenvalue $\lambda$ and eigenfunction $u$ separately, we treat the eigenpair $(\lambda, u)$ as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Fei Xu , Manting Xie , Meiling Yue

The computational complexity of naive, sampling-based uncertainty quantification for 3D partial differential equations is extremely high. Multilevel approaches, such as multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC), can reduce the complexity significantly,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Björn Gmeiner , Daniel Drzisga , Ulrich Ruede , Robert Scheichl , Barbara Wohlmuth

For many linear and nonlinear systems that arise from the discretization of partial differential equations the construction of an efficient multigrid solver is a challenging task. Here we present a novel approach for the optimization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Jonas Schmitt , Sebastian Kuckuk , Harald Köstler

We combine the multigrid (MG) method with state-of-the-art concepts from the variational formulation of the numerical renormalization group. The resulting MG renormalization (MGR) method is a natural generalization of the MG method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Michael Lubasch , Pierre Moinier , Dieter Jaksch