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We develop a new numerical scheme which allows precise solution of coherent tunneling problems, i.e., problems with exponentially small transition amplitudes between quasidegenerate states. We explain how this method works for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolai Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov , Igor Tupitsyn

In Monte Carlo simulation, lattice field theory with a $\theta$ term suffers from the sign problem. This problem can be circumvented by Fourier-transforming the topological charge distribution $P(Q)$. Although this strategy works well for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 M. Imachi , Y. Shinno , H. Yoneyama

Towards a solution to the sign problem in the simulations of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures, we propose a new approach which yields statistical errors smaller than the crude Monte Carlo using absolute values of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 T D Kieu , C J Griffin

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of quantum many body systems are plagued by the Fermion sign problem. The computational complexity of simulating Fermions scales exponentially in the projection time $\beta$ and system size. The sign problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-02 Ryan Levy , Bryan K. Clark

We consider the numerical analysis of the inchworm Monte Carlo method, which is proposed recently to tackle the numerical sign problem for open quantum systems. We focus on the growth of the numerical error with respect to the simulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Zhenning Cai , Jianfeng Lu , Siyao Yang

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo method (WV-HMC method) [arXiv:2012.08468] is a reliable and versatile algorithm towards solving the sign problem. Similarly to the tempered Lefschetz thimble method, this method removes the ergodicity…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-08 Masafumi Fukuma

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach is applied to a problem of a single spin-down fermion resonantly interacting with the sea of ideal spin-up fermions. On one hand, we develop a generic, sign-problem tolerant, method of exact numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

This is an introductory level review of recent applications of resurgent trans-series and Picard-Lefschetz theory to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Resurgence connects local perturbative data with global topological structure.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-20 Gerald V. Dunne , Mithat Unsal

Quantum Monte Carlo is one of the most promising approaches for dealing with large-scale quantum many-body systems. It has played an extremely important role in understanding strongly correlated physics. However, two fundamental problems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-03 Zhiyan Wang , Zenan Liu , Bin-Bin Mao , Zhe Wang , Zheng Yan

The quantum theory of antiferromagnetism in metals is necessary for our understanding of numerous intermetallic compounds of widespread interest. In these systems, a quantum critical point emerges as external parameters (such as chemical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-24 Erez Berg , Max A. Metlitski , Subir Sachdev

A quantum implementation of the Stochastic Series Expansion (SSE) Monte Carlo method is proposed, and it is shown that quantum SSE offers significant advantages over classical implementations of SSE. In particular, for problems where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Kok Chuan Tan , Dhiman Bowmick , Pinaki Sengupta

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method [arXiv:2012.08468] is a reliable and versatile algorithm for addressing the numerical sign problem. It resolves the ergodicity issues commonly encountered in Lefschetz thimble-based…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-31 Masafumi Fukuma

Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

We present a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of general quantum and classical many-body models within a single unifying framework. The algorithm builds on a power series expansion of the quantum partition function in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Lalit Gupta , Tameem Albash , Itay Hen

Recently there has been remarkable progress in solving the sign problem, which occurs in investigating statistical systems with a complex weight. The two promising methods, the complex Langevin method and the Lefschetz thimble method, share…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

In these proceedings, we review recent advances in applying quantum computing to lattice field theory. Quantum computing offers the prospect to simulate lattice field theories in parameter regimes that are largely inaccessible with the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-10 Lena Funcke , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn

Neural quantum states (NQS) are a promising approach to study many-body quantum physics. However, they face a major challenge when applied to lattice models: Convolutional networks struggle to converge to ground states with a nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-31 Attila Szabó , Claudio Castelnovo

This paper presents a method for alleviating sign problems in lattice path integrals, including those associated with finite fermion density in relativistic systems. The method makes use of information gained from some systematic expansion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-11 Scott Lawrence

Monte Carlo is one of the most useful methods to study the quantum Hall problems. In this paper, we introduce a fast lattice Monte Carlo method based on a mathematically exact reformulation of the torus quantum Hall problems from continuum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Jie Wang , Scott D. Geraedts , E. H. Rezayi , F. D. M. Haldane

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