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Continuous-time determinantal algorithm is proposed for the quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the interacting fermions. The scheme does not invoke Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. The fermionic action is divided into two parts. One of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Rubtsov

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

Numerical simulations of numerous quantum systems suffer from the notorious sign problem. Important examples include QCD and other field theories at non-zero chemical potential, at non-zero vacuum angle, or with an odd number of flavors, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Cox , C. Gattringer , K. Holland , B. Scarlet , U. -J. Wiese

Quantum many-body systems whose Hamiltonians are non-stoquastic, i.e., have positive off-diagonal matrix elements in a given basis, are known to pose severe limitations on the efficiency of Quantum Monte Carlo algorithms designed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Milad Marvian , Daniel A. Lidar , Itay Hen

We present a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of general quantum and classical many-body models within a single unifying framework. The algorithm builds on a power series expansion of the quantum partition function in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Lalit Gupta , Tameem Albash , Itay Hen

The fermion sign problem, the biggest obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, is completely solved in this paper. Here, we find a strategy, in which the contribution from those negative-weighted paths is thoroughly cancelled or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 J. Wang , D. Y. Sun

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 \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method is one of the most successful methods in statistical physics, quantum chemistry and related fields, but its application to quantum degenerate Fermi systems is severely hampered by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Tobias Dornheim , Panagiotis Tolias , Simon Groth , Zhandos Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Barak Hirshberg

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

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

We develop a strong-coupling perturbation scheme for a generic Hubbard model around a half-filled particle-hole-symmetric reference system, which is free from the fermionic sign problem. The approach is based on the lattice determinantal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Sergei Iskakov , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Alexander I. Lichtenstein

We propose a projection approach to perform quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation on the infinite-$U$ Hubbard model at some integer fillings where either it is sign problem free or surprisingly has an algebraic sign structure -- a power law…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-28 Yunqing Ouyang , Xiao Yan Xu

We show how the sign problem occurring in dynamical simulations of random matrices at nonzero chemical potential can be avoided by judiciously combining matrices into subsets. For each subset the sum of fermionic determinants is real and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-22 Jacques Bloch

State-of-the-art algorithms for simulating fermions coupled to gauge fields often rely on integrating fermion degrees of freedom. While successful in simulating QCD at zero chemical potential, at finite density these approaches are hindered…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-05 Joao C. Pinto Barros , Thea Budde , Marina Krstic Marinkovic

It is shown that a class of separately frustration-free (SFF) Hamiltonians can be Monte Carlo simulated efficiently on a classical computing machine, because such an SFF Hamiltonian corresponds to a Gibbs wavefunction whose nodal structure…

General Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 David H. Wei

The triangular lattice antiferromagnet with $S=1/2$ spins and nearest neighbor interactions is known to have long-range antiferromagnetic order, with nearest-neighbor spins at an angle of 120 degrees. Numerical studies of quantum phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Leyna Shackleton , Subir Sachdev

The Hamiltonian formulation of Lattice QCD with staggered fermions in the strong coupling limit has no sign problem at non-zero baryon density and allows for Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We have extended this formalism to two flavors,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-23 Pratitee Pattanaik , Wolfgang Unger

The quantum Monte Carlo method on asymptotic Lefschetz thimbles is a numerical algorithm devised specifically for alleviation of the sign problem appearing in the simulations of quantum many-body systems. In this method, the sign problem is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-26 Petr A. Mishchenko , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

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

Determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC), formulated in complex-fermion representation, has played a key role in studying strongly-correlated fermion systems. However, its applicability is limited due to the requirement of particle-number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-21 Ze-Yao Han , Zhou-Quan Wan , Hong Yao