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arxiv: 1703.02414 · v1 · pith:IHR2ZACWnew · submitted 2017-03-07 · ✦ hep-lat

Tempered transitions between thimbles

classification ✦ hep-lat
keywords problemsamplingtemperedalgorithmfailsmethodproposalsstandard
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Quantum field theories with complex actions cannot be investigated using importance sampling due to the sign problem. One possible solution is to use the holomorphic gradient flow, a method we introduced related to the Lefschetz thimbles idea. In many cases the probability distribution generated by this method is multi-modal and standard Monte-Carlo sampling fails. We propose an algorithm that incorporates tempered proposals to solve this problem. We apply this algorithm to the 0+1 dimensional Thirring model at finite density for a parameter set where standard sampling fails and show that tempered proposals cure this problem.

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