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

5 citations · 7 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 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…

hep-th2026

Toward Hamiltonian simulations of Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory: constant modes and gauge field truncation

Andrea Bulgarelli, Maria Cristina Diamantini, Nico Dichter +6

Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) theory in dimensions provides a paradigmatic example of a topological gauge theory with both dynamical and topological degrees of freedom. Its Eucl…

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-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-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…

hep-lat2024

Small-scale Hamiltonian optimization of interpolating operators for Lagrangian lattice quantum field theory

Artur Avkhadiev, Lena Funcke, Karl Jansen +2

Lattice quantum field theory calculations may potentially combine the advantages of Hamiltonian formulations with the scalability and control of conventional Lagrangian frameworks.…

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-th2024★ 1 cited

Hamiltonian Lattice Formulation of Compact Maxwell-Chern-Simons Theory

Changnan Peng, Maria Cristina Diamantini, Lena Funcke +5

In this paper, a Hamiltonian lattice formulation for 2+1D compact Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory is derived. We analytically solve this theory and demonstrate that the mass gap in the…

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…