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The fermion sign problem constitutes one of the most fundamental obstacles in quantum many-body theory. Recently, it has been suggested to circumvent the sign problem by carrying out path integral simulations with a fictitious quantum…

We demonstrate, by considering the triangular lattice spin-1/2 Heisenberg model, that Monte Carlo sampling of skeleton Feynman diagrams within the fermionization framework offers a universal first-principles tool for strongly correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-09 S. A. Kulagin , N. Prokof'ev , O. A. Starykh , B. Svistunov , C. N. Varney

Cluster algorithms have been recently used to eliminate sign problems that plague Monte-Carlo methods in a variety of systems. In particular such algorithms can also be used to solve sign problems associated with the permutation of fermion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Quantum annealing is a generic solver of the optimization problem that uses fictitious quantum fluctuation. Its simulation in classical computing is often performed using the quantum Monte Carlo simulation via the Suzuki--Trotter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Masayuki Ohzeki

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 a whole series of novel methods to alleviate the sign problem of the Fermionic Shadow Wave Function in the context of Variational Monte Carlo. The effectiveness of our new techniques is demonstrated on the example of liquid 3He.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Francesco Calcavecchia , Francesco Pederiva , Malvin H. Kalos , Thomas D. Kühne

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are sophisticated numerical techniques for simulating interacting quantum systems. In some cases, however, they suffer from the notorious "sign problem" and become too inefficient to be useful. A recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-16 K. S. D. Beach , Matthieu Mambrini , Fabien Alet

We present a universal quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating arbitrary high-spin (spin greater than 1/2) Hamiltonians, based on the recently developed permutation matrix representation (PMR) framework. Our approach extends a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Arman Babakhani , Lev Barash , Itay Hen

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

To account for the interference effects of the Coulomb and exchange interactions of electrons a new path integral representation of the density matrix has been developed in the canonical ensemble at finite temperatures. The developed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Vladimir Filinov , Pavel Levashov , Alexander Larkin

The fermion sign problem remains the primary obstacle in simulating the thermodynamic properties of various fermionic systems. In this work, we present a sign-blocking method to mitigate the numerical instability inherent in the sign…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

We present a practical analysis of the fermion sign problem in fermionic path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations in the grand-canonical ensemble (GCE). As a representative model system, we consider electrons in a $2D$ harmonic trap. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Tobias Dornheim

We show here that a direct application of resummation-based quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) -- implemented recently for sign-problem-free SU(2)-symmetric Hamiltonians in the stochastic series expansion (SSE) framework -- does not reduce the sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-15 Nisheeta Desai , Sumiran Pujari

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

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are powerful tools for studying quantum many-body systems but face difficulties in accessing excited states and in treating sign problems. We present a continuous-time path-integral Monte Carlo method for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-16 Abhishek Karna , Hansen S. Wu , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Ribhu K. Kaul

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

Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations constitute the gold standard for the estimation of a broad range of equilibrium properties of a host of interacting quantum many-body systems spanning conditions from ultracold atoms to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Paul Hamann , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

We formulate a path-integral Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating lattice systems consisting of fictitious particles governed by a generalized exchange statistics. This method, initially proposed for continuum systems, introduces a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Zhijie Fan , Tianning Xiao , Youjin Deng

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are one of the most important tools for studying interacting quantum many-body systems. The vast majority of QMC calculations in interacting fermion systems require a constraint to control the sign problem.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-08 Mingpu Qin , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

Simulations of supersymmetric models on the lattice with (spontaneously) broken supersymmetry suffer from a fermion sign problem related to the vanishing of the Witten index. We propose a novel approach which solves this problem in low…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-04 David Baumgartner , Urs Wenger