Super-resolution of spin configurations based on flow-based generative models

We present a super-resolution method for spin systems using a flow-based generative model that is a deep generative model with reversible neural network architecture. Starting from spin configurations on a two-dimensional square lattice, our model generates spin configurations of a larger lattice. As a flow-based generative model precisely estimates the distribution of the generated configurations, it can be combined with Monte Carlo simulation to generate large lattice configurations according to the Boltzmann distribution. Hence, the long-range correlation on a large configuration is reduced into the shorter one through the flow-based generative model. This alleviates the critical slowing down near the critical temperature. We demonstrated an 8 times increased lattice size in the linear dimensions using our super-resolution scheme repeatedly. We numerically show that by performing simulations for 16×16 configurations, our model can sample lattice configurations at 128×128 on which the thermal average of physical quantities has good agreement with the one evaluated by the traditional Metropolis–Hasting Monte Carlo simulation.