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Quantum phase-space simulations of fermions and bosons

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We introduce a unified Gaussian quantum operator representation for fermions and bosons. The representation extends existing phase-space methods to Fermi systems as well as the important case of Fermi-Bose mixtures. It enables simulations of the dynamics and thermal equilibrium states of many-body quantum systems from first principles. As an example, we numerically calculate finite-temperature correlation functions for the Fermi Hubbard model, with no evidence of the Fermi sign problem.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0506040,
  title  = {Quantum phase-space simulations of fermions and bosons},
  author = {P. D. Drummond and J. F. Corney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0506040},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Comp. Phys. Comm