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The fermion sign problem constitutes one of the most fundamental obstacles in quantum many-body theory. Recently, it has been suggested to circumvent the sign problem by carrying out path integral simulations with a fictitious quantum…

Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations constitute the gold standard for the estimation of a broad range of equilibrium properties of a host of interacting quantum many-body systems spanning conditions from ultracold atoms to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Paul Hamann , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

Numerical simulations of strongly correlated electron systems suffer from the notorious fermion sign problem which has prevented progress in understanding if systems like the Hubbard model display high-temperature superconductivity. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Chandrasekharan , J. Cox , J. C. Osborn , U. -J. Wiese

In this work we investigate theoretical and computational aspects of novel lattice fermion formulations for the simulation of lattice gauge theories. The lattice approach to quantum gauge theories is an important tool for studying quantum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-03-21 Christian Zielinski

Monte Carlo simulations are useful tools for modeling quantum systems, but in some cases they suffer from a sign problem, leading to an exponential slow down in their convergence to a value. While solving the sign problem is generically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 T. C. Mooney , Jacob Bringewatt , Neill C. Warrington , Lucas T. Brady

Fermi gases in strongly coupled regimes, such as the unitary limit, are inherently challenging for many-body methods. Although much progress has been made with purely analytic methods, quantitative results require ab initio numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Dietrich Roscher , Jens Braun , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Joaquín E. Drut

We present the first practical Monte Carlo calculations of the recently proposed Lefschetz thimble formulation of quantum field theories. Our results provide strong evidence that the numerical sign problem that afflicts Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-15 Marco Cristoforetti , Francesco Di Renzo , Abhishek Mukherjee , Luigi Scorzato

We develop a new method that allows us to map models of interacting fermions onto bosonic models describing collective excitations in an arbitrary dimension. This mapping becomes exact in the thermodynamic continuous time limit. The boson…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 K. B. Efetov , C. Pépin , H. Meier

We study the sign problem of the fermion determinant at nonzero baryon chemical potential. For this purpose we apply a simple model derived from Quantum Chromodynamics, in the limit of large chemical potential and mass. For SU(2) color,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshimasa Hidaka

Supersymmetric models are grounded in the intriguing concept of a hypothetical symmetry that relates bosonic and fermionic particles. This symmetry has profound implications, offering valuable extensions to the Standard Model of particle…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-11-25 Emanuele Mendicelli , David Schaich

Ab initio calculations play an essential role in our fundamental understanding of quantum many-body systems across many subfields, from strongly correlated fermions to quantum chemistry and from atomic and molecular systems to nuclear…

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

When one tries to simulate quantum spin systems by the Monte Carlo method, often the 'minus-sign problem' is encountered. In such a case, an application of probabilistic methods is not possible. In this paper the method has been proposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacek Wojtkiewicz

We consider the 2+1 dimensional massive Thirring model with one flavor at finite density. Two numerical methods, fermion bag approach and complex Langevin dynamics, are used to calculate the chiral condensate and fermion density of this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-07 Daming Li

Simulations of supersymmetric models on the lattice with (spontaneously) broken supersymmetry suffer from a fermion sign problem related to the vanishing of the Witten index. We propose a novel approach which solves this problem in low…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-04 David Baumgartner , Urs Wenger

As an intrinsically-unbiased approach, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is of vital importance in understanding correlated phases of matter. Unfortunately, it often suffers notorious sign problem when simulating interacting fermion models. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-03 Zi-Xiang Li , Zhou-Quan Wan , Hong Yao

We revisit the infinite variance problem in fermionic Monte Carlo simulations, which is widely encountered in areas ranging from condensed matter to nuclear and high-energy physics. The different algorithms, which we broadly refer to as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shiwei Zhang

We present a relativistic analysis of fermions in an external electric field by non-perturbatively solving the Dirac equation with a static gauge. Different from the magnetic field effect, the fermion wave function in an electric field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Xuan Zhao , Yi Wang , Pengfei Zhuang

We discuss two problems in complexified auxiliary fields in fermionic effective models, the auxiliary sign problem associated with the repulsive vector-field and the choice of the cut for the scalar field appearing from the logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa , Akira Ohnishi

The quantum Monte Carlo method on asymptotic Lefschetz thimbles is a numerical algorithm devised specifically for alleviation of the sign problem appearing in the simulations of quantum many-body systems. In this method, the sign problem is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-26 Petr A. Mishchenko , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome