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Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

We discuss the impact of various improvements on simulations of dynamical overlap fermions using the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. We focus on the usage of fat links and multiple pseudo-fermion fields.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-18 Thomas DeGrand , Stefan Schaefer

Nested multi-step stochastic correction offers a possibility to improve updating algorithms for numerical simulations of lattice gauge theories with fermions. The corresponding generalisations of the two-step multi-boson (TSMB) algorithm as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Montvay , E. Scholz

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

We introduce and compare three different Monte Carlo determinantal algorithms that allow one to compute dynamical quantities, such as the self-energy, of fermionic systems in their thermodynamic limit. We show that the most efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 Alice Moutenet , Wei Wu , Michel Ferrero

We introduce a new algorithm which we call the {Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo} Algorithm (RHMC). This method uses a rational approximation to the fermionic kernel together with a noisy Kennedy-Kuti acceptance step to give an efficient…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Ivan Horvath , A. D. Kennedy , Stefan Sint

The Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm currently is the favorite scheme to simulate quantum chromodynamics including dynamical fermions. In this talk-which is intended for a non-expert audience--I want to bring together methodical and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas Lippert

Despite their exceptional flexibility and popularity, the Monte Carlo methods often suffer from slow mixing times for challenging statistical physics problems. We present a general strategy to overcome this difficulty by adopting ideas and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Li Huang , Lei Wang

The increase with time of computer resources devoted to simulations of full QCD is spectacular. Yet the reduction of systematic errors is comparatively slow. This is due to the algorithmic complexity of the problem. I review, in elementary…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe de Forcrand

Variational inference lies at the core of many state-of-the-art algorithms. To improve the approximation of the posterior beyond parametric families, it was proposed to include MCMC steps into the variational lower bound. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-28 Christopher Wolf , Maximilian Karl , Patrick van der Smagt

We introduce methodologies for highly scalable quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron-phonon models, and report benchmark results for the Holstein model on the square lattice. The determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) method is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Benjamin Cohen-Stead , Owen Bradley , Cole Miles , George Batrouni , Richard Scalettar , Kipton Barros

We present a set of related Hybrid Monte Carlo methods to simulate an arbitrary number of dynamical overlap fermions. Each fermion is represented by a chiral pseudo-fermion field. The new algorithm reduces critical slowing down in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas DeGrand , Stefan Schaefer

The Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of QCD with dynamical staggered fermions is compared with Kramers equation algorithm. We find substantially different autocorrelation times for local and nonlocal observables. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 M. E. Berbenni-Bitsch , A. P. Gottlob , S. Meyer , M. Puetz

We give a detailed description of the so-called Polynomial Hybrid Monte Carlo (PHMC) algorithm. The effects of the correction factor, which is introduced to render the algorithm exact, are discussed, stressing their relevance for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Frezzotti , K. Jansen

We give some new performance results for the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) simulation of dynamical clover-improved Wilson fermions using an improved pseudo-fermion action. The generalisation of even-odd preconditioning for the standard Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-04-25 Martin Hasenbusch

We propose a modification of the Hybrid Monte-Carlo method to sample equilibrium distributions of continuous field models. The method allows an efficient implementation of Fourier acceleration and is shown to reduce completely critical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Raul Toral , A. L. Ferreira

We describe a new Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm for dynamical overlap fermions, which improves the rate of topological index changes by adding an additional (intensive) term to the action for the molecular dynamics part of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-02-28 Nigel Cundy , Weonjong Lee

The past few years have seen considerable progress in algorithmic development for the generation of gauge fields including the effects of dynamical fermions. The Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo (RHMC) algorithm, where Hybrid Monte Carlo is…

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

We combine a generic method for finding fast orthogonal transforms for a given quasi-Monte Carlo integration problem with the multilevel Monte Carlo method. It is shown by example that this combined method can vastly improve the efficiency…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Christian Irrgeher , Gunther Leobacher

Recently, it has been shown that the hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm is guaranteed to converge exponentially to a given target probability distribution $p(x)\propto e^{-V(x)}$ on non-compact spaces if augmented by an appropriate radial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Johann Ostmeyer