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The ab initio thermodynamic simulation of correlated Fermi systems is of central importance for many applications, such as warm dense matter, electrons in quantum dots, and ultracold atoms. Unfortunately, path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Tobias Dornheim

At low temperatures $T$ where $1/T=\beta\gg1$ the na\"ive implementation of determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) methods suffers from loss of precision and numerical instabilities when evaluating the fermion determinant. This instability…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Petar Sinilkov , Finn L. Temmen

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations provide one of the more powerful and versatile numerical approaches to condensed matter systems. However, their application to frustrated quantum spin models, in all relevant temperature regimes, is hamstrung…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-20 Stefan Wessel , B. Normand , Frédéric Mila , Andreas Honecker

We investigate the minus-sign problem that afflicts quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of frustrated quantum spin systems, focusing on spin S=1/2, two spatial dimensions, and the extended Shastry-Sutherland model. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-03 Stefan Wessel , Ido Niesen , Jonas Stapmanns , B. Normand , Frédéric Mila , Philippe Corboz , Andreas Honecker

The quantum theory of antiferromagnetism in metals is necessary for our understanding of numerous intermetallic compounds of widespread interest. In these systems, a quantum critical point emerges as external parameters (such as chemical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-24 Erez Berg , Max A. Metlitski , Subir Sachdev

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

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 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 sign problem in Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) without annihilation can be understood as an instability of the psi-particle population to the ground state of the matrix obtained by making all off-diagonal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Michael H. Kolodrubetz , James S. Spencer , Bryan K. Clark , W. Matthew C. Foulkes

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

Various types of mixed spin two-dimensional Heisenberg networks are investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. This study aims at interpreting quantitatively the thermodynamical properties of two-dimensional molecule-based magnets…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Mombelli , O. Kahn , J. Leandri , Y. Leroyer , S. Mechkov , Y. Meurdesoif

We present a new approach for Monte Carlo simulations of lattice quantum spin systems which is able to eliminate the negative sign problem. Its complexity is linear in the volume of the lattice. Its efficiency is tested on a simple…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Galli

The canonical approach, which was developed for solving the sign problem, may suffer from a new type of sign problem. In the canonical approach, the grand partition function is written as a fugacity expansion: $Z_G(\mu,T) = \sum_n Z_C(n,T)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-05-09 V. A. Goy , V. Bornyakov , D. Boyda , A. Molochkov , A. Nakamura , A. Nikolaev , V. Zakharov

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are powerful tools for simulating quantum many-body systems, yet their applicability is limited by the infamous sign problem. We approach this challenge through the lens of Vanishing Geometric Phases (VGP)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Arman Babakhani , Armen Karakashian

The path integral formulation of quantum mechanical problems including fermions is often affected by a severe numerical sign problem. We show how such a sign problem can be alleviated by a judiciously chosen constant imaginary offset to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-23 Christoph Gäntgen , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Marcel Rodekamp

It is believed that not all quantum systems can be simulated efficiently using classical computational resources. This notion is supported by the fact that in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations for a large number of important problems it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-14 Z. Ringel , D. L. Kovrizhin

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

Optical lattice experiments with ultracold fermion atoms and quantum gas microscopy have recently realized direct measurements of magnetic correlations at the site-resolved level. We calculate the short-range spin correlation functions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-28 Mingpu Qin , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We argue the sign problem of the fermion determinant at finite density. It is unavoidable not only in Monte-Carlo simulations on the lattice but in the mean-field approximation as well. A simple model deriving from Quantum Chromodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenji Fukushima , Yoshimasa Hidaka

Ab-initio Monte Carlo simulations of strongly-interacting fermionic systems are plagued by the fermion sign problem, making the non-perturbative study of many interesting regimes of dense quantum matter, or of theories of odd numbers of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-05 Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman