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most citedStochastic normalizing flows as non-equilibrium transformations

45 citations · 86 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

hep-lat2026

Ergodic topology sampling toward the continuum with Stochastic Normalizing Flows

Claudio Bonanno, Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini +4

In this work we provide numerical evidence that topological freezing in Yang-Mills theory can be mitigated with a flow-based approach, as tested at lattice spacing…

hep-lat2026

Scalable Generative Sampling and Multilevel Estimation for Lattice Field Theories Near Criticality

A. Singha, J. Kauffmann, E. Cellini +2

Sampling lattice field theories near criticality is severely hindered by critical slowing down, which makes standard Markov chain methods increasingly inefficient at large lattice…

hep-lat2026

Intrinsic Width of the flux tube in 2+1 dimensional Yang-Mills theories

Lorenzo Verzichelli, Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini +2

We present our updated results on the intrinsic width of the profile of the flux tube in (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with SU(2) gauge group. We identify the intrinsic width…

hep-lat2026

A scalable flow-based approach to mitigate topological freezing

Claudio Bonanno, Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini +4

As lattice gauge theories with non-trivial topological features are driven towards the continuum limit, standard Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations suffer for topological freezin…

hep-lat2026

Intrinsic Width of the Flux Tube as a tool to explore confining mechanisms in Lattice Gauge Theories

Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada +2

We study the profile of the flux tube in the SU(2) gauge model in 2+1 dimensions, with a particular attention to the so called "intrinsic width" which drives the exponential decay…

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…

hep-lat2025★ 2 cited

Scaling flow-based approaches for topology sampling in gauge theory

Claudio Bonanno, Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini +4

We develop a methodology based on out-of-equilibrium simulations to mitigate topological freezing when approaching the continuum limit of lattice gauge theories. We reduce the auto…

hep-lat2025

Studying Effective String Theory using deep generative models

Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada

Effective String Theory (EST) offers a robust non-perturbative framework for describing confinement in Yang-Mills theory by treating the confining flux tube between a static quark-…

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…

hep-lat2025

Stochastic normalizing flows for Effective String Theory

Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada

Effective String Theory (EST) is a powerful tool used to study confinement in pure gauge theories by modeling the confining flux tube connecting a static quark-anti-quark pair as a…

hep-lat2025★ 1 cited

Intrinsic width of the flux tube in 2+1 dimensional Yang-Mills therories

Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada +2

We study the shape of the flux tube in lattice Yang-Mills theories and in particular its intrinsic width. In the framework of the Effective String Theory description of the confini…

hep-lat2024★ 6 cited

Scaling of Stochastic Normalizing Flows in lattice gauge theory

Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada

Non-equilibrium Markov Chain Monte Carlo (NE-MCMC) simulations provide a well-understood framework based on Jarzynski's equality to sample from a target probability distribution. B…

hep-lat2024

Sampling SU(3) pure gauge theory with Stochastic Normalizing Flows

Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada

Non-equilibrium Monte Carlo simulations based on Jarzynski's equality are a well-understood method to compute differences in free energy and also to sample from a target probabilit…

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…

hep-lat2024★ 11 cited

Numerical determination of the width and shape of the effective string using Stochastic Normalizing Flows

Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada

Flow-based architectures have recently proved to be an efficient tool for numerical simulations of Effective String Theories regularized on the lattice that otherwise cannot be eff…

hep-lat2023★ 15 cited

Sampling the lattice Nambu-Goto string using Continuous Normalizing Flows

Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada

Effective String Theory (EST) represents a powerful non-perturbative approach to describe confinement in Yang-Mills theory that models the confining flux tube as a thin vibrating s…

hep-lat2022

Stochastic normalizing flows for lattice field theory

Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada +1

Stochastic normalizing flows are a class of deep generative models that combine normalizing flows with Monte Carlo updates and can be used in lattice field theory to sample from Bo…

hep-lat2022★ 45 cited

Stochastic normalizing flows as non-equilibrium transformations

Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini, Alessandro Nada +1

Normalizing flows are a class of deep generative models that provide a promising route to sample lattice field theories more efficiently than conventional Monte Carlo simulations.…