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The sign problem is a notorious problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo simulations of a system with a partition function whose integrand is not positive. One way to simulate such a system is to use the factorization method where one enforces…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-08 Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Takehiro Azuma , Jun Nishimura

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

We present a real-time quantum Monte Carlo algorithm that simulates the dynamics of open quantum systems by stochastically compressing and evolving the density matrix under both Markovian and non-Markovian master equations. Our algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Tong Shen , Daniel A. Lidar

Sign problem in fermion quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation appears to be an extremely hard problem. Traditional lore passing around for years tells people that when there is a sign problem, the average sign in QMC simulation approaches…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Xu Zhang , Gaopei Pan , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng

The sign problem is a key challenge in computational physics, encapsulating our inability to properly understand many important quantum many-body phenomena in physics, chemistry and the material sciences. Despite its centrality, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Lalit Gupta , Itay Hen

We explore different ways of incorporating accurate trial wave functions into free projection auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (fp-AFQMC). Trial states employed include coupled cluster singles and doubles, multi-Slater, and symmetry…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma

We extend the recently introduced phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to any single-particle basis, and apply it to molecular systems with Gaussian basis sets. QMC methods in general scale favorably with system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Al-Saidi , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

We develop a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (CTQMC) method for quantum impurities coupled to interacting quantum wires described by a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. The method is negative-sign free for any values of the Tomonaga-Luttinger…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 K. Hattori , A. Rosch

Current nonequilibrium Monte Carlo methods suffer from a dynamical sign problem that makes simulating real-time dynamics for long times exponentially hard. We propose a new `Inchworm Algorithm', based on iteratively reusing information…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-25 Guy Cohen , Emanuel Gull , David. R. Reichman , Andrew J. Millis

Many-electron problems pose some of the greatest challenges in computational science, with important applications across many fields of modern science. Fermionic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are among the most powerful approaches to…

The recently proposed full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method allows access to essentially exact ground-state energies of systems of interacting fermions substantially larger than previously tractable without knowledge of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 J. S. Spencer , N. S. Blunt , W. M. C. Foulkes

We present a quantum impurity solver based on a pseudo-particle framework, which combines diagrammatic resummations for a three-point vertex with diagrammatic Monte Carlo sampling of a four-point vertex. This recently proposed approach [A.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Aaram J. Kim , Jiajun Li , Martin Eckstein , Philipp Werner

The absence of negative sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations of spin and fermion systems has different origins. World-line based algorithms for spins require positivity of matrix elements whereas auxiliary field approaches for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-14 Toshihiro Sato , Fakher F. Assaad , Tarun Grover

We develop a diagrammatic Monte Carlo method for the real-time dynamics of dissipative quantum impurity models. These are small open quantum systems with interaction and local Markovian dissipation, coupled to a large quantum bath. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-26 Matthieu Vanhoecke , Marco Schirò

We propose a mechanism for solving the `negative sign problem'---the inability to assign non-negative weights to quantum Monte Carlo configurations---for a toy model consisting of a frustrated triplet of spin-$1/2$ particles interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Itay Hen

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

To tackle the sign problem in the simulations of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures, we propose a new approach which yields statistical errors smaller than the crude Monte Carlo using absolute values of the original…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 T D Kieu , C J Griffin

A method is presented to tackle the sign problem in the simulations of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures. In general, this new approach is shown to yield statistical errors smaller than the crude Monte Carlo using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 T D Kieu , C J Griffin

The sign problem is a major obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo simulations for many-body fermion systems. We examine this problem with a new perspective based on the Majorana reflection positivity and Majorana Kramers positivity. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-19 Z. C. Wei , Congjun Wu , Yi Li , Shiwei Zhang , T. Xiang

Monte Carlo calculations in the framework of lattice field theory provide non-perturbative access to the equilibrium physics of quantum fields. When applied to certain fermionic systems, or to the calculation of out-of-equilibrium physics,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-06-23 Scott Lawrence