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We construct a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for interacting fermions using the two-body density as the fundamental quantity. The central idea is mapping the interacting fermionic system onto an auxiliary system of interacting bosons. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-30 Balazs Hetenyi , L. Brualla , S. Fantoni

We present a method for performing path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations for fermions and address its sign problem. PIMD simulations are widely used for studying many-body quantum systems at thermal equilibrium. However, they…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Barak Hirshberg , Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

We present a simple trick that allows to consider the sum of all connected Feynman diagrams at fixed position of interaction vertices for general fermionic models. With our approach one achieves superior performance compared to Diagrammatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Riccardo Rossi

The recently developed density matrix quantum Monte Carlo (DMQMC) algorithm stochastically samples the N -body thermal density matrix and hence provides access to exact properties of many-particle quantum systems at arbitrary temperatures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-15 Fionn D. Malone , N. S. Blunt , James J. Shepherd , D. K. K. Lee , J. S. Spencer , W. M. C. Foulkes

We present a method using Feynman-like diagrams to calculate the statistical properties of random many-body potentials. This method provides a promising alternative to existing techniques typically applied to this class of problems, such as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Rupert Small , Sebastian Müller

We present quasi-exact ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for the partial static density responses and local field factors of hydrogen in the warm dense matter regime, from solid density conditions to the strongly compressed…

In this work, within the framework of path integral Monte Carlo, we construct a pseudo-fermion propagator by replacing the original fermionic determinant with its absolute value. This modified propagator defines an auxiliary system free…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

We investigate the energy per particle, static structure factor, and momentum distribution of the uniform electron gas for different conditions defined by the dimensionless temperature $\Theta = 0.25 - 1.0$ and average interparticle…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Tommaso Morresi , Giovanni Garberoglio , Hongwei Xiong , Yunuo Xiong

Recently a number of theoretical studies of the uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature have appeared that are of relevance for dense plasmas, warm dense matter and laser excited solids and thermodynamic density functional theory…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-06 T. Schoof , S. Groth , M. Bonitz

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

We present a new method which uses Feynman-like diagrams to calculate the statistical quantities of embedded many-body random matrix problems. The method provides a promising alternative to existing techniques and offers many important…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-06 Rupert Small , Sebastian Müller

We give a brief discussion of the recently developed Constrained-Path Monte Carlo Method. This method is a quantum Monte Carlo technique that eliminates the fermion sign problem plaguing simulations of systems of interacting electrons. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Gubernatis , M. Guerrero

A general algorithm toward the solution of the fermion sign problem in finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations has been formulated for discretized fermion path integrals with nearest-neighbor interactions in the Trotter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. Mak , R. Egger , H. Weber-Gottschick

Quantum Monte Carlo belongs to the most accurate simulation techniques for quantum many-particle systems. However, for fermions, these simulations are hampered by the sign problem that prohibits simulations in the regime of strong…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 A. Yilmaz , K. Hunger , T. Dornheim , S. Groth , M. Bonitz

We perform calculations of the {3D} finite-temperature homogeneous electron gas (HEG) in the warm-dense regime ({r_{s} \equiv (3/4\pi n)^{1/3}a_{B}^{- 1} = 1.0- 40.0} and {\Theta \equiv T/T_{F} = 0.0625- 8.0}) using restricted path integral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-10 Ethan W. Brown , Bryan K. Clark , Jonathan L. DuBois , David M. Ceperley

It is commonly believed that in quantum Monte Carlo approaches to fermionic many- body problems, the infamous sign problem generically implies prohibitively large computational times for obtaining thermodynamic-limit quantities. We point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-13 R. Rossi , N. Prokof'ev , B. Svistunov , K. Van Houcke , F. Werner

We present extensive new \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of normal liquid $^3$He without any nodal constraints. This allows us to study the effects of temperature on different structural properties like the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Tobias Dornheim , Zhandos Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Burkhard Militzer

The static density response of the uniform electron gas is of fundamental importance for numerous applications. Here, we employ the recently developed \textit{ab initio} permutation blocking path integral Monte Carlo (PB-PIMC) technique…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Jan Vorberger , Michael Bonitz

Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations have become an important tool for the investigation of the statistical mechanics of quantum systems. I discuss some of the history of applying the Monte Carlo method to non-relativistic quantum…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Tilman Sauer

The fermion sign problem constitutes a fundamental computational bottleneck across a plethora of research fields in physics, quantum chemistry and related disciplines. Recently, it has been suggested to alleviate the sign problem in…