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We present a quantum Monte Carlo method which allows calculations on many-fermion systems at finite temperatures without any sign decay. This enables simulations of the grand-canonical ensemble at large system sizes and low temperatures.…

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The computational cost of simulating quantum many-body systems can often be reduced by taking advantage of physical symmetries. While methods exist for specific symmetry classes, a general algorithm to find the full permutation symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Saumya Shah , Patrick Rebentrost

The Monte Carlo calculation of R\'enyi entanglement entropies $S^{}_n$ of interacting fermions suffers from a well-known signal-to-noise problem, even for a large number of situations in which the infamous sign problem is absent. A few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-28 Joaquín E. Drut , William J. Porter

This chapter is devoted to the computation of equilibrium (thermodynamic) properties of quantum systems. In particular, we will be interested in the situation where the interaction between particles is so strong that it cannot be treated as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Alexei Filinov , Jens Böning , Michael Bonitz

One-dimensional world is very unusual as there is an interplay between quantum statistics and geometry, and a strong short-range repulsion between atoms mimics Fermi exclusion principle, fermionizing the system. Instead, a system with a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-16 N. Matveeva , G. E. Astrakharchik

Models of fermions interacting with classical degrees of freedom are applied to a large variety of systems in condensed matter physics. For this class of models, Wei{\ss}e [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 102}, 150604 (2009)] has recently proposed a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Seiji Yunoki

Strongly-coupled fermionic systems can support a variety of low-energy phenomena, giving rise to collective condensation, symmetry breaking and a rich phase structure. We explore the potential of worldline Monte Carlo methods for analyzing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Gerald Dunne , Holger Gies , Klaus Klingmuller , Kurt Langfeld

We propose a general framework for finding the ground state of many-body fermionic systems by using feed-forward neural networks. The anticommutation relation for fermions is usually implemented to a variational wave function by the Slater…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-21 Koji Inui , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

We show how the thermodynamic properties of large many-body localized systems can be studied using quantum Monte Carlo simulations. To this end we devise a heuristic way of constructing local integrals of motion of very high quality, which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-09-21 Stephen Inglis , Lode Pollet

Precise knowledge of the static density response function (SDRF) of the uniform electron gas (UEG) serves as key input for numerous applications, most importantly for density functional theory beyond generalized gradient approximations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-06 Simon Groth , Tobias Dornheim , Michael Bonitz

We present extensive new ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for an electron gas at warm dense matter conditions that is subject to multiple harmonic perturbations. In addition to the previously investigated nonlinear effects…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Tobias Dornheim , Jan Vorberger , Zhandos Moldabekov , Michael Bonitz

We developed a replica exchange method that is effectively parallelizable even if the computational cost of the Monte Carlo moves in the parallel replicas are considerably different, for instance, because the replicas run on different type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Sander Roet , Daniel T. Zhang , Titus S. van Erp

The Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics is used to derive a new path integral representation of quantum density of states. A path integral Monte Carlo approach is developed for the numerical investigation of density of states, internal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 V. Filinov , P. Levashov , A. Larkin

We generalize the method introduced in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35, 7255 (2002) based on the concept of thermodynamic equivalence and we transform a Fermi system of general density of states into a thermodynamically equivalent Bose system.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-07 Dragoş-Victor Anghel

Finding the ground state of a fermionic Hamiltonian using quantum Monte Carlo is a very difficult problem, due to the Fermi sign problem. While still scaling exponentially, full configuration-interaction Monte Carlo (FCI-QMC) mitigates some…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Bryan K. Clark

For a class of interacting particle systems in continuous space, we show that finite-volume approximations of the bulk diffusion matrix converge at an algebraic rate. The models we consider are reversible with respect to the Poisson…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Arianna Giunti , Chenlin Gu , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

Electron transfer (ET) across molecular chains including an impurity is studied based on a recently improved real-time path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 121}, 12696 (2004)]. The reduced electronic dynamics is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lothar Muehlbacher , Joachim Ankerhold

We determine the ground-state energy and Tan's contact of attractively interacting few-fermion systems in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, for a range of couplings and particle numbers. Complementing those results, we show the corresponding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-09 C. E. Berger , E. R. Anderson , J. E. Drut

Treating the fermionic ground state problem as a constrained stochastic optimization problem, a formalism for fermionic quantum Monte Carlo is developed that makes no reference to a trial wavefunction. Exchange symmetry is enforced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-14 Michael Hutcheon

We present novel first-principle fermionic path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulation results for a dense partially ionized hydrogen (deuterium) plasma, for temperatures in the range $15,000$K $\leq T \leq 400,000$K and densities $7 \cdot…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 A. V. Filinov , M. Bonitz