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Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) simulations involving fermions have the notorious sign problem. Some well-known exceptions of the auxiliary field QMC algorithm rely on the factorizibility of the fermion determinant. Recently, a fermionic QMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-06 Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

A general algorithm toward the solution of the fermion sign problem in finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations has been formulated for discretized fermion path integrals with nearest-neighbor interactions in the Trotter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. Mak , R. Egger , H. Weber-Gottschick

The sign problem is a notorious problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo simulations of a system with a partition function whose integrand is not positive. One way to simulate such a system is to use the factorization method where one enforces…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-08 Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Takehiro Azuma , Jun Nishimura

Quantum simulations are a powerful tool for exploring strongly correlated many-body phenomena. Yet, their reach is limited by the fermion sign problem, which causes configuration weights to become negative, compromising statistical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Ryan Larson , Rubem Mondaini , Richard T. Scalettar

The sign problem is the fundamental limitation to quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the statistical mechanics of interacting fermions. Determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is one of the leading methods to study lattice models such as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 V. I. Iglovikov , E. Khatami , R. T. Scalettar

The quantum Monte-Carlo method is applied to two-dimensional electron systems under strong magnetic fields. The negative-sign problem involved by this method can be avoided for certain filling factors by modifying interaction parameters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sei Suzuki , Tatsuya Nakajima

We introduce a Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method which efficiently simulates in a sign-problem-free way a broad class of frustrated $S=1/2$ models with competing antiferromagnetic interactions. Our scheme uses the basis of total spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-09 Fabien Alet , Kedar Damle , Sumiran Pujari

The fermion sign problem remains the primary obstacle in simulating the thermodynamic properties of various fermionic systems. In this work, we present a sign-blocking method to mitigate the numerical instability inherent in the sign…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

A precise dynamical characterization of quantum impurity models with multiple interacting orbitals is challenging. In quantum Monte Carlo methods, this is embodied by sign problems. A dynamical sign problem makes it exponentially difficult…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Andre Erpenbeck , Thomas Blommel , Lei Zhang , Wei-Ting Lin , Guy Cohen , Emanuel Gull

We give a brief discussion of the recently developed Constrained-Path Monte Carlo Method. This method is a quantum Monte Carlo technique that eliminates the fermion sign problem plaguing simulations of systems of interacting electrons. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Gubernatis , M. Guerrero

Quantum Monte Carlo is one of the most powerful numerical tools for studying nonpeturbative properties of quantum many-body systems. However, its application to real-time problems is limited since the complex and highly-oscillating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Tomoya Hayata

The sign problem is a major obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo simulations for many-body fermion systems. We examine this problem with a new perspective based on the Majorana reflection positivity and Majorana Kramers positivity. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-19 Z. C. Wei , Congjun Wu , Yi Li , Shiwei Zhang , T. Xiang

The Monte Carlo calculation of R\'enyi entanglement entropies $S^{}_n$ of interacting fermions suffers from a well-known signal-to-noise problem, even for a large number of situations in which the infamous sign problem is absent. A few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-28 Joaquín E. Drut , William J. Porter

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are sophisticated numerical techniques for simulating interacting quantum systems. In some cases, however, they suffer from the notorious "sign problem" and become too inefficient to be useful. A recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-16 K. S. D. Beach , Matthieu Mambrini , Fabien Alet

Due to the intrinsic complexity of the quantum many-body problem, quantum Monte Carlo algorithms and their corresponding Monte Carlo configurations can be defined in various ways. Configurations corresponding to few Feynman diagrams often…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-30 Alexander Kowalski , Andreas Hausoel , Markus Wallerberger , Patrik Gunacker , Giorgio Sangiovanni

We use the Shadow Wave Function formalism as a convenient model to study the fermion sign problem affecting all projector Quantum Monte Carlo methods in continuum space. We demonstrate that the efficiency of imaginary time projection…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Francesco Calcavecchia , Markus Holzmann

We propose a framework based on the concept of the semigroup to understand the fermion sign problem. By using properties of contraction semigroups, we obtain sufficient conditions for quantum lattice fermion models to be sign-problem-free.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-28 Zhong-Chao Wei

A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo Bedaque

We present a new Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating quantum spin systems which is able to suppress the negative sign problem. This algorithm has only a linear complexity in the lattice size used for the simulation. A general description…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Galli

The sign problem is a notorious problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo simulations of a system with the partition function whose integrand is not real positive. The basic idea of the factorization method applied on such a system is to control…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-14 Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Takehiro Azuma , Jun Nishimura