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Stable Determinant Monte Carlo Simulations at Large Inverse Temperature $\beta$

Computational Physics 2026-04-02 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

At low temperatures TT where 1/T=β11/T=\beta\gg1 the na\"ive implementation of determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) methods suffers from loss of precision and numerical instabilities when evaluating the fermion determinant. This instability propagates into the calculation of observables that rely on the evaluation of the inverse of the fermion matrix, or the Greens function. For DQMC methods that rely on the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm, an additional complication comes from evaluating the force terms required for integrating Hamilton's equations of motion, since here loss of precision and numerical instabilities are also prevalent. We show how to address all these issues using various choices of matrix decompositions, allowing us to simulate at β90\beta\gtrsim 90, which corresponds to room temperature for graphene structures. Furthermore, our implementation has numerical costs that scale similarly to the na\"ive implementation, namely as O(Nx3Nt)\mathcal{O}(N_x^3N_t), where NxN_x (NtN_t) is the number of spatial (temporal) sites.

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@article{arxiv.2604.00815,
  title  = {Stable Determinant Monte Carlo Simulations at Large Inverse Temperature $\beta$},
  author = {Thomas Luu and Johann Ostmeyer and Petar Sinilkov and Finn L. Temmen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.00815},
  year   = {2026}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures

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