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Publications (9)

hep-lat2023

Learning Trivializing Flows in a theory from coarser lattices

David Albandea, Luigi Del Debbio, Pilar Hernández +3

The so-called trivializing flows were proposed to speed up Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations, where the Wilson flow was used as an approximation of a trivializing map, a transformatio…

hep-lat2025

Chiral and isospin breaking in the two-flavor Schwinger Model

David Albandea, Pilar Hernández

The Schwinger model with two massive fermions is a nontrivial theory for which no analytical solution is known. The strong coupling limit of the theory allows for different semicla…

hep-lat2024

Strong CP problem in the quantum rotor

David Albandea, Guilherme Catumba, Alberto Ramos

Recent studies have claimed that the strong problem does not occur in QCD, proposing a new order of limits in volume and topological sectors when studying observables on the l…

hep-lat2022

Learning trivializing flows

David Albandea, Luigi Del Debbio, Pilar Hernández +3

The recent introduction of machine learning techniques, especially normalizing flows, for the sampling of lattice gauge theories has shed some hope on improving the sampling effici…

hep-lat2023

Topological sampling through windings

David Albandea, Pilar Hernández, Alberto Ramos +1

We propose a modification of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm that overcomes the topological freezing of a two-dimensional gauge theory with and without fermion conten…

hep-lat2023

Learning Trivializing Flows

David Albandea, Luigi Del Debbio, Pilar Hernández +3

The recent introduction of Machine Learning techniques, especially Normalizing Flows, for the sampling of lattice gauge theories has shed some hope on improving the sampling effici…

hep-lat2025

Lattice techniques to investigate the strong problem: lessons from a toy model

David Albandea, Guilherme Catumba, Alberto Ramos

Recent studies have claimed that the strong problem does not occur in QCD, proposing a new order of limits in volume and topological sectors when studying observables on the l…

hep-lat2021

Improved topological sampling for lattice gauge theories

David Albandea, Pilar Hernández, Alberto Ramos +1

Standard sampling algorithms for lattice QCD suffer from topology freezing (or critical slowing down) when approaching the continuum limit, thus leading to poor sampling of the dis…

hep-lat2026

A first study of strong isospin breaking effects in lattice QCD using truncated polynomials

David Albandea, Simon Kuberski, Fernando P. Panadero

Computing derivatives of observables with respect to parameters of the theory is a powerful tool in lattice QCD, as it allows the study of physical effects not directly accessible…