11–15 May 2026
El Escorial
Europe/Madrid timezone

Score-based diffusion models for lattice gauge theory and prospects for TMD/FF reconstruction

13 May 2026, 16:30
20m
El Escorial

El Escorial

Casa E. San José, Av. Reyes Católicos, 12 - 28280 El Escorial - Madrid

Speaker

Bao-Dong Sun (Ruhr University Bochum)

Description

Score-based diffusion models are applied to two-dimensional SU(2) lattice pure gauge theory with the Wilson action, using a quaternion parameterization of the group manifold. Trained at a single coupling on an 8×8 lattice, the model generates configurations at different couplings via physics-conditioned sampling and generalizes to larger lattice sizes through a fully convolutional U-Net with periodic boundary conditions, reproducing exact analytical predictions with biases |Δ| ≤ 0.001 near the training point. The extension to four-dimensional non-Abelian gauge theories and the prospects for applying the diffusion model framework to the reconstruction of transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMD PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs) are discussed.

Author

Bao-Dong Sun (Ruhr University Bochum)

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