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An exact, nonlocal, finite step-size algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation of theories with dynamical fermions is proposed. The algorithm is based on obtaining the new configuration U' from the old one U by solving the equation $ M(U') \eta…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Bakeyev

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

The sign problem is a major obstacle to our understanding of the phase diagram of QCD at finite baryon density. Several numerical methods have been proposed to tackle this problem, but a full solution to the sign problem is still elusive.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-24 Helvio Vairinhos , Philippe de Forcrand

Ettore Majorana, in his short life, unintendedly has uncovered the most profound problem in quantum computation by his discovery of Majorana fermion, a particle which is its own anti-particle. Owing to its non-Abelian exchange statistics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Nur R. Ayukaryana , Mohammad H. Fauzi , Eddwi H. Hasdeo

We present the first open access version of the QMeCha (Quantum MeCha) code, a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) package developed to study many-body interactions between different types of quantum particles, with a modular and easy-to-expand…

It is widely known that there is no sign problem in Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of fermions in one dimension. Yet, as far as the author is aware, there is no direct proof of this in the literature. This work shows that the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Siu A. Chin

Quantum Monte Carlo method is applied to fractional quantum Hall systems. The use of the linear programming method enables us to avoid the negative-sign problem in the Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The formulation of this method and the…

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

Computing the ground-state energy of interacting electron (fermion) problems has recently been shown to be hard for QMA, a quantum analogue of the complexity class NP. Fermionic problems are usually hard, a phenomenon widely attributed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Tzu-Chieh Wei , Michele Mosca , Ashwin Nayak

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of correlated electron systems provide unbiased information about system behavior at a quantum critical point (QCP) and can verify or disprove the existing theories of non-Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Xiao Yan Xu , Avraham Klein , Kai Sun , Andrey V. Chubukov , Zi Yang Meng

We present numerically exact continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for fermions with a general non-local in space-time interaction. The new determinantal grand-canonical scheme is based on a stochastic series expansion for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. N. Rubtsov , V. V. Savkin , A. I. Lichtenstein

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

The pseudofermion functional renormalization group (PFFRG) method has proven to be a powerful numerical approach to treat frustrated quantum spin systems. In its usual implementation, however, the complex fermionic representation of spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-21 Nils Niggemann , Björn Sbierski , Johannes Reuther

There has been much recent progress in the understanding and reduction of the computational cost of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for Lattice QCD as the quark mass parameter is reduced. In this letter we present a new solution to this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. Clark , A. D. Kennedy

We solve the sign problem in a particle-hole symmetric spin-polarized fermion model on bipartite lattices using the idea of fermion bags. The solution can be extended to a class of models at half filling but without particle-hole symmetry.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-19 Emilie Fulton Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

There has been recent literature discussion on the origin and severity of the `sign problem' in full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) and its `initiator' adaptation (i-FCIQMC), methods of interest and potential because…

This is a review of recent developments in Monte Carlo methods in the field of ultra cold gases. For bosonic atoms in an optical lattice we discuss path integral Monte Carlo simulations with worm updates and show the excellent agreement…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-20 Lode Pollet

We address the calculation of dynamical correlation functions for many fermion systems at zero temperature, using the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method. The two-dimensional Hubbard hamiltonian is used as a model system. Although…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Ettore Vitali , Hao Shi , Mingpu Qin , Shiwei Zhang

We formulate and characterize a new constraint for Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) applicable for general fermionic systems, which allows for the accumulation of phase in the random walk but disallows walkers with a magnitude of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 John L. Weber , Hung Vuong , Richard A. Friesner , David R. Reichman

Cluster algorithms have been recently used to eliminate sign problems that plague Monte-Carlo methods in a variety of systems. In particular such algorithms can also be used to solve sign problems associated with the permutation of fermion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

The problem of fermion dynamics is studied using the Q-function for fermions. This is a probabilistic phase-space representation, which we express using Majorana operators, so that the phase-space variable is a real antisymmetric matrix. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Ria Rushin Joseph , Laura E C Rosales-Zárate , Peter D Drummond