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Introduction to Normalizing Flows for Lattice Field Theory

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arxiv 2101.08176 v3 pith:PXXZ4DUN submitted 2021-01-20 hep-lat cond-mat.stat-mechcs.LG

Introduction to Normalizing Flows for Lattice Field Theory

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This notebook tutorial demonstrates a method for sampling Boltzmann distributions of lattice field theories using a class of machine learning models known as normalizing flows. The ideas and approaches proposed in arXiv:1904.12072, arXiv:2002.02428, and arXiv:2003.06413 are reviewed and a concrete implementation of the framework is presented. We apply this framework to a lattice scalar field theory and to U(1) gauge theory, explicitly encoding gauge symmetries in the flow-based approach to the latter. This presentation is intended to be interactive and working with the attached Jupyter notebook is recommended.

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