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most citedEstimation of Thermodynamic Observables in Lattice Field Theories with Deep Generative Models

118 citations · 124 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

hep-lat2026

Data Free Training of Diffusion Models for Lattice Field Theories

Dennis Grinwald, Ankur Singha, Khaled Kahouli +2

Sampling equilibrium field configurations remains a major computational bottleneck in lattice field theory, motivating the development of generative samplers that can produce indep…

hep-lat2026

Multilevel Plaquette-Space Sampling for Lattice Gauge Theories with Local Constraint Solves

Ankur Singha, Jacob Finkenrath, Karl Jansen +2

Lattice gauge theories are an important class of physical models with high-dimensional structured distributions that underpin first-principles calculations in particle, nuclear, an…

hep-lat2026

Sector-Resolved Flow Sampling for Topologically Frozen Lattice Gauge Theories

Ankur Singha, Jacob Kauffmann, Karl Jansen +3

Topological fluctuations are essential to nonperturbative gauge theories but become increasingly difficult to sample toward the continuum limit, where Markov chains can freeze in s…

quant-ph2026

Prior-Informed Adaptive Shifts for Sequential Minimal Optimization in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers

Frederik Stalschus, Samuele Pedrielli, Stefan Kühn +3

Sequential minimal optimization methods, such as the Rotosolve and the Nakanishi-Fujii-Todo algorithm (NFT), are widely used for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs). These meth…

quant-ph2026

Bias Analysis and Regularization of Sequential Minimal Optimization in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers

Samuele Pedrielli, Frederik Stalschus, Stefan Kühn +3

The Nakanishi Fujii Todo (NFT) algorithm, also known as Rotosolve, implements Sequential Minimal Optimization for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (SMO-VQE) by exploiting the trigo…

hep-lat2025

Computing quantum entanglement with machine learning

Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini, Karl Jansen +5

Entanglement calculations in quantum field theories are extremely challenging and typically rely on the replica trick, where the problem is rephrased in a study of defects. We demo…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Multilevel Generative Samplers for Investigating Critical Phenomena

Ankur Singha, Elia Cellini, Kim A. Nicoli +3

Investigating critical phenomena or phase transitions is of high interest in physics and chemistry, for which Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, a crucial tool for numerically analyzing…

quant-ph2025

Adaptive Observation Cost Control for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers

Christopher J. Anders, Kim A. Nicoli, Bingting Wu +6

The objective to be minimized in the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) has a restricted form, which allows a specialized sequential minimal optimization (SMO) that requires onl…

cs.LG2025

Bayesian Parameter Shift Rule in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers

Samuele Pedrielli, Christopher J. Anders, Lena Funcke +3

Parameter shift rules (PSRs) are key techniques for efficient gradient estimation in variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs). In this paper, we propose its Bayesian variant, where…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Flow-Based Sampling for Entanglement Entropy and the Machine Learning of Defects

Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini, Karl Jansen +5

We introduce a novel technique to numerically calculate Rényi entanglement entropies in lattice quantum field theory using generative models. We describe how flow-based approaches…

cs.LG2024

Physics-Informed Bayesian Optimization of Variational Quantum Circuits

Kim A. Nicoli, Christopher J. Anders, Lena Funcke +7

In this paper, we propose a novel and powerful method to harness Bayesian optimization for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs) -- a hybrid quantum-classical protocol used to ap…

physics.comp-ph2023

Improvement of Heatbath Algorithm in LFT using Generative models

Ali Faraz, Ankur Singha, Dipankar Chakrabarti +2

The Heatbath Algorithm is commonly used for sampling in local lattice field theories, but performing exact updates or sampling from the local density is challenging when dealing wi…

hep-lat2020★ 118 cited

Estimation of Thermodynamic Observables in Lattice Field Theories with Deep Generative Models

Kim A. Nicoli, Christopher J. Anders, Lena Funcke +5

In this work, we demonstrate that applying deep generative machine learning models for lattice field theory is a promising route for solving problems where Markov Chain Monte Carlo…