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We combine the recent $\eta-$ensemble path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach to the free energy [T.~Dornheim \textit{et al.}, \textit{Phys.~Rev.~B} \textbf{111}, L041114 (2025)] with a recent fictitious partition function technique based…

Numerically exact continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for finite fermionic systems with non-local interactions is proposed. The scheme is particularly applicable for general multi-band time-dependent correlations since it does not…

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

The notorious sign problem severely limits the applicability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, as statistical errors grow exponentially with system size and inverse temperature. A recent proposal of a quantum-computing stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Kwai-Kong Ng , Min-Fong Yang

The negative sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of cluster impurity problems is the major bottleneck in cluster dynamical mean field calculations. In this paper we systematically investigate the dependence of the sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 Hiroshi Shinaoka , Yusuke Nomura , Silke Biermann , Matthias Troyer , Philipp Werner

The fermion sign problem poses a formidable challenge to the use of Monte Carlo methods for lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermionic matter fields. A meron cluster algorithm recently formulated for gauge fields represented as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-18 Pallabi Dey , Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman

Motivated by a recent experiment [Nadj-Perge et al., Science 346, 602 (2014)] providing evidence for Majorana zero modes in iron chains on the superconducting Pb surface, in the present work, we theoretically propose an all-optical scheme…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-29 Hua-Jun Chen , Chang-Zhao Chen , Xian-Wen Fang , Yang Li , Guang-Hong Miao , Shao-Fei Tu , Ka-Di Zhu

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations constitute nowadays one of the most powerful methods to study strongly correlated quantum systems, provided that no "sign problem" arises. However, many systems of interest, including highly frustrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Andreas Honecker , Lukas Weber , Philippe Corboz , Frédéric Mila , Stefan Wessel

Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) provides numerically exact solutions for strongly correlated fermionic systems but faces significant computational challenges with increasing system size. While submatrix updates were originally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-19 Fanjie Sun , Xiao Yan Xu

The infamous sign problem leads to an exponential complexity in Monte Carlo simulations of generic many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, many phases of matter are known to admit a sign-problem-free representative, allowing efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-14 Omri Golan , Adam Smith , Zohar Ringel

We present a universal parameter-free quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm designed to simulate arbitrary spin-$1/2$ Hamiltonians. To ensure the convergence of the Markov chain to equilibrium for every conceivable case, we devise a clear and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lev Barash , Arman Babakhani , Itay Hen

We develop a GPU-accelerated hybrid quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm to solve the fundamental yet difficult problem of $U(1)$ gauge field coupled to fermions, which gives rise to a $U(1)$ Dirac spin liquid state under the description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Kexin Feng , Chuang Chen , Zi Yang Meng

Efficient continuous time quantum Monte Carlo (CT-QMC) algorithms that do not suffer from time discretization errors have become the state-of-the-art for most discrete quantum models. They have not been widely used yet for fermionic quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-08 Mauro Iazzi , Matthias Troyer

We present a solution to the sign problem in a class of particle-hole symmetric Hamiltonian lattice fermion models on bipartite lattices using the idea of fermion bags. The solution remains valid when the particle-hole symmetry is broken…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-03 Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

The Abrikosov fermion representation of the spin-1/2 degree of freedom allows for auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo simulations of frustrated spin systems. This approach provides a manifold of equivalent actions over which the negative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-11 João C. Inácio , Jeroen van den Brink , Fakher F. Assaad , Toshihiro Sato

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

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) is a numeric technique that allows one to calculate quantities specified in terms of diagrammatic expansions, the latter being a standard tool of many-body quantum statistics. The sign problem that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-18 Kris Van Houcke , Evgeny Kozik , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

The quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is one of the most promising many-body electronic structure approaches. It employs stochastic techniques for solving the stationary Schr\" odinger equation and for evaluation of expectation values. The key…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-20 Michal Bajdich

We present a numerical quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for simulating the 3D phase transition on the recently proposed fuzzy sphere [Phys. Rev. X 13, 021009 (2023)]. By introducing an additional $SU(2)$ layer degree of freedom, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-26 Johannes S. Hofmann , Florian Goth , Wei Zhu , Yin-Chen He , Emilie Huffman

The simulation of systems of interacting fermions is one of the most anticipated applications of quantum computers. The most interesting simulations will require a fault-tolerant quantum computer, and building such a device remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kevin J. Sung , Marko J. Rančić , Olivia T. Lanes , Nicholas T. Bronn

A new Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) approach is proposed to investigate low-lying states of nuclei within the shell model. The formalism relies on a variational symmetry-restored wave-function to guide the underlying Brownian motion. Sign/phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-20 Jérémy Bonnard , Olivier Juillet