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The calculation of the ground state and thermodynamics of mass-imbalanced Fermi systems is a challenging many-body problem. Even in one spatial dimension, analytic solutions are limited to special configurations and numerical progress with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-20 Lukas Rammelmüller , William J. Porter , Joaquín E. Drut , Jens Braun

The Coherent Ising Machine (CIM) is a quantum network of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) intended to find ground states of the Ising model. This is an NP-hard problem, related to several important minimization problems, including the…

We suggest an efficient method to resolve electronic cusps in electronic structure calculations by using an effective transcorrelated Hamiltonian. This effective Hamiltonian takes a simple form for plane wave bases, containing up to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Hongjun Luo , Ali Alavi

The triangular lattice antiferromagnet with $S=1/2$ spins and nearest neighbor interactions is known to have long-range antiferromagnetic order, with nearest-neighbor spins at an angle of 120 degrees. Numerical studies of quantum phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Leyna Shackleton , Subir Sachdev

A series of calculations for the first- and second-row post-d elements (Ga-Br and In-I) are presented using the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AF QMC) method. This method is formulated in a Hilbert space defined by any…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Al-Saidi , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

The "sign problem" (SP) is the fundamental limitation to simulations of strongly correlated materials in condensed matter physics, solving quantum chromodynamics at finite baryon density, and computational studies of nuclear matter. As a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-09 Rubem Mondaini , Sabyasachi Tarat , Richard T. Scalettar

We propose a novel algorithm for calculating the ground-state energy of quantum many-body systems by combining auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) with tensor-train sketching. In AFQMC, a good trial wavefunction to guide the random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ziang Yu , Shiwei Zhang , Yuehaw Khoo

In lattice field theory, the interactions of elementary particles can be computed via high-dimensional integrals. Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods based on importance sampling are normally efficient to solve most of these integrals.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-18 Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Hernan Leövey , Julia Volmer

Pairing correlations in nuclei play a decisive role in determining nuclear drip-lines, binding energies, and many collective properties. In this work a new Configuration-Space Monte-Carlo (CSMC) method for treating nuclear pairing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-23 Mark Lingle , Alexander Volya

For optimal accuracy, auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) requires trial states consisting of multiple Slater determinants. We develop an efficient algorithm to select the determinants from an AFQMC random walk eliminating the need…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Zoran Sukurma , Martin Schlipf , Georg Kresse

Within Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo, we investigate how the statistical error behaves as a function of the parameters which control the stochastic sampling. We define the inefficiency as a measure of the statistical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 W. A. Vigor , J. S. Spencer , M. J. Bearpark , A. J. W. Thom

We present a simple, robust and highly efficient method for optimizing all parameters of many-body wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, applicable to continuum systems and lattice models. Based on a strong zero-variance…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Umrigar , Julien Toulouse , Claudia Filippi , S. Sorella , R. G. Hennig

In low-temperature high-density plasmas quantum effects of the electrons are becoming increasingly important. This requires the development of new theoretical and computational tools. Quantum Monte Carlo methods are among the most…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 T. Schoof , S. Groth , M. Bonitz

This paper deals with the sign problem in full configuration-interaction quantum Monte Carlo. After putting this article on the arxiv, it was pointed out to us that our argument applies to a number of model Hamiltonians we considered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-26 Michael Kolodrubetz , Bryan K. Clark

We present a numerically exact Inchworm Monte Carlo method for equilibrium multiorbital quantum impurity problems with general interactions and hybridizations. We show that the method, originally developed to overcome the dynamical sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-25 Eitan Eidelstein , Emanuel Gull , Guy Cohen

We introduce a method that combines the power of both the lattice Green function Monte Carlo (LGFMC) with the auxiliary field techniques (AFQMC), and allows us to compute exact ground state properties of the Hubbard model for U<~ 4t on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Sandro Sorella

In this paper, we consider the numerical solution of a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with spatial random potential. The randomly shifted quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) lattice rule combined with the time-splitting pseudospectral discretization is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Zhizhang Wu , Zhiwen Zhang , Xiaofei Zhao

We report an implementation of the momentum space quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method on the interaction model for the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at integer fillings. The long-range Coulomb repulsion is treated exactly with the flat bands,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-15 Xu Zhang , Gaopei Pan , Yi Zhang , Jian Kang , Zi Yang Meng

The notorious fermion sign problem, arising from fermion statistics, presents a fundamental obstacle to the numerical simulation of quantum many-body systems. Here, we introduce a framework that circumvents the sign problem in the studies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi-Xuan Li , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li

The Schwinger model is one of the simplest gauge theories. It is known that a topological term of the model leads to the infamous sign problem in the classical Monte Carlo method. In contrast to this, recently, quantum computing in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Kazuki Sakamoto , Hayata Morisaki , Junichi Haruna , Etsuko Itou , Keisuke Fujii , Kosuke Mitarai