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hep-lat2026

No-go theorems for dual Hamiltonians of Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories

Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung, Timo Jakobs +3

Hamiltonian simulations of lattice gauge theories promise new insights into the inner workings of QCD. The rapid development of quantum computing hardware suggests that large scale…

hep-lat2025

A Comprehensive Stress Test of Truncated Hilbert Space Bases against Green's function Monte Carlo in U(1) Lattice Gauge Theory

Timo Jakobs, Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung +5

A representation of Lattice Gauge Theories (LGT) suitable for simulations with tensor network state methods or with quantum computers requires a truncation of the Hilbert space to…

hep-lat2025★ 4 cited

Dynamics in Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Theory: Approaching the Continuum Limit with Partitionings of SU

Timo Jakobs, Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung +4

In this paper, we investigate a digitised SU lattice gauge theory in the Hamiltonian formalism. We use partitionings to digitise the gauge degrees of freedom and show how to d…

hep-lat2023

Testing the lattice Hamiltonian built from partitionings

Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung, Timo Jakobs +5

We test a possible digitization of lattice gauge theories based on partitionings of the sphere . In our construction the link operators are unitary and diagon…

hep-lat2023★ 12 cited

Studying the phase diagram of the three-flavor Schwinger model in the presence of a chemical potential with measurement- and gate-based quantum computing

Stephan Schuster, Stefan Kühn, Lena Funcke +4

We propose an ansatz quantum circuit for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), suitable for exploring the phase structure of the multi-flavor Schwinger model in the presence o…

hep-lat2023★ 22 cited

Canonical Momenta in Digitized SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory: Definition and Free Theory

Timo Jakobs, Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung +5

Hamiltonian simulations of quantum systems require a finite-dimensional representation of the operators acting on the Hilbert space H. Here we give a prescription for gauge links a…

hep-lat2023

Detecting and Mitigating Mode-Collapse for Flow-based Sampling of Lattice Field Theories

Kim A. Nicoli, Christopher J. Anders, Tobias Hartung +3

We study the consequences of mode-collapse of normalizing flows in the context of lattice field theory. Normalizing flows allow for independent sampling. For this reason, it is hop…

hep-lat2023★ 42 cited

Review on Quantum Computing for Lattice Field Theory

Lena Funcke, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen +1

In these proceedings, we review recent advances in applying quantum computing to lattice field theory. Quantum computing offers the prospect to simulate lattice field theories in p…

hep-lat2022

Digitizing SU(2) Gauge Fields and What to Look Out for When Doing So

Tobias Hartung, Timo Jakobs, Karl Jansen +2

With the long term perspective of using quantum computers and tensor networks for lattice gauge theory simulations, an efficient method of digitizing gauge group elements is needed…

hep-lat2022

Defining Canonical Momenta for Discretised SU(2) Gauge Fields

Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen +3

In this proceeding contribution we discuss how to define canonical momenta for SU(N) lattice gauge theories in the Hamiltonian formalism in a basis where the gauge field operators…

hep-lat2022

Zeta-regularized Lattice Field Theory with Lorentzian background metrics

Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen, Chiara Sarti

Lattice field theory is a very powerful tool to study Feynman's path integral non-perturbatively. However, it usually requires Euclidean background metrics to be well-defined. On t…

hep-lat2022★ 36 cited

Digitising SU(2) Gauge Fields and the Freezing Transition

Tobias Hartung, Timo Jakobs, Karl Jansen +2

Efficient discretisations of gauge groups are crucial with the long term perspective of using tensor networks or quantum computers for lattice gauge theory simulations. For any Lie…

hep-lat2021

Lattice field computations via recursive numerical integration

Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen, Frances Y. Kuo +3

We investigate the application of efficient recursive numerical integration strategies to models in lattice gauge theory from quantum field theory. Given the coupling structure of…

hep-lat2021★ 20 cited

Machine Learning of Thermodynamic Observables in the Presence of Mode Collapse

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

Estimating the free energy, as well as other thermodynamic observables, is a key task in lattice field theories. Recently, it has been pointed out that deep generative models can b…

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…

hep-lat2020

Avoiding the sign-problem in lattice field theory

Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen, Hernan Leövey +1

In lattice field theory, the interactions of elementary particles can be computed via high-dimensional integrals. Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods based on importance sampli…

hep-lat2019

Zeta-regularized vacuum expectation values from quantum computing simulations

Karl Jansen, Tobias Hartung

The zeta-regularization allows to establish a connection between Feynman's path integral and Fourier integral operator zeta-functions. This fact can be utilized to perform the regu…

hep-lat2016

Applying recursive numerical integration techniques for solving high dimensional integrals

Andreas Ammon, Alan Genz, Tobias Hartung +3

The error scaling for Markov-Chain Monte Carlo techniques (MCMC) with samples behaves like . This scaling makes it often very time intensive to reduce the error of…

hep-lat2016

New polynomially exact integration rules on U(N) and SU(N)

Andreas Ammon, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen +2

In lattice Quantum Field Theory, we are often presented with integrals over polynomials of coefficients of matrices in U(N) or SU(N) with respect to the Haar measure. In some physi…

hep-lat2016★ 14 cited

Overcoming the sign problem in 1-dimensional QCD by new integration rules with polynomial exactness

A. Ammon, T. Hartung, K. Jansen +2

In this paper we describe a new integration method for the groups and , for which we verified numerically that it is polynomially exact for . The method is ap…

hep-lat2015★ 10 cited

On the efficient numerical solution of lattice systems with low-order couplings

A. Ammon, A. Genz, T. Hartung +3

We apply the Quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) and recursive numerical integration methods to evaluate the Euclidean, discretized time path-integral for the quantum mechanical anharmonic osc…

hep-lat2013★ 1 cited

Applicability of Quasi-Monte Carlo for lattice systems

Andreas Ammon, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen +3

This project investigates the applicability of quasi-Monte Carlo methods to Euclidean lattice systems in order to improve the asymptotic error scaling of observables for such theor…