Learning the generating functional for variance reduction in lattice QCD

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15986v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:24:19 GMT
• Title: Learning the generating functional for variance reduction in lattice QCD
• Abstract summary: We present a methodology that leverages machine-learned normalizing flows to reduce the variance of arbitrary $N$-point correlation functions of bosonic operators.<n>We show that it is possible to systematically approach noiseless estimators of correlation functions in this framework.
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• Abstract: The generating functional in quantum field theory provides the natural framework for constructing correlation functions as derivatives with respect to source operators. We present a methodology that leverages machine-learned normalizing flows to reduce the variance of arbitrary $N$-point correlation functions of bosonic operators in lattice gauge field theory calculations by encoding a representation of the generating functional. We show that it is possible to systematically approach noiseless estimators of correlation functions in this framework. We demonstrate this methodology with applications to calculations of glueball correlation functions and Wilson loops in Quantum Chromodynamics and Yang-Mills theory. The results show up to three orders of magnitude variance reduction.

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