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Randomness is an intrinsic feature of quantum theory. The outcome of any quantum measurement will be random, sampled from a probability distribution that is defined by the measured quantum state. The task of sampling from a prescribed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Dominik Hangleiter

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

Quantum Monte Carlo is one of the most promising approaches for dealing with large-scale quantum many-body systems. It has played an extremely important role in understanding strongly correlated physics. However, two fundamental problems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-03 Zhiyan Wang , Zenan Liu , Bin-Bin Mao , Zhe Wang , Zheng Yan

Advanced algorithms are necessary to obtain faster-than-real-time dynamic simulations in a number of different physical problems that are characterized by widely disparate time scales. Recent advanced dynamic Monte Carlo algorithms that…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 M. A. Novotny

It is commonly believed that in quantum Monte Carlo approaches to fermionic many- body problems, the infamous sign problem generically implies prohibitively large computational times for obtaining thermodynamic-limit quantities. We point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-13 R. Rossi , N. Prokof'ev , B. Svistunov , K. Van Houcke , F. Werner

We propose an efficient tensor-train-based algorithm for simulating open quantum systems with the inchworm method, where the reduced dynamics of the open quantum system is expressed as a perturbative series of high-dimensional integrals.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Geshuo Wang , Yixiao Sun , Siyao Yang , Zhenning Cai

The numerical sign problem is a major obstacle to the quantitative understanding of many important physical systems with first-principles calculations. Typical examples for such systems include finite-density QCD, strongly-correlated…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-05-03 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Yusuke Namekawa

We develop a Monte Carlo scheme for sampling series of Feynman diagrams for the proper self-energy which are self-consistently expressed in terms of renormalized particle propagators. This approach is used to solve the problem of a single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-08 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

We investigate the challenge of classical simulation of unitary quantum dynamics with variational Monte Carlo approaches, addressing the instabilities and high computational demands of existing methods. By systematically analyzing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Luca Gravina , Vincenzo Savona , Filippo Vicentini

We introduce a method to simulate open quantum many-body dynamics by combining time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) with quantum trajectory techniques. Our approach unravels the Lindblad master equation into an ensemble of…

We review recent attempts at dealing with the sign problem in Monte Carlo calculations by deforming the region of integration in the path integral from real to complex fields. We discuss the theoretical foundations, the algorithmic issues…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Paulo F. Bedaque

We present a simple, general purpose, quantum Monte-Carlo algorithm for out-of-equilibrium interacting nanoelectronics systems. It allows one to systematically compute the expansion of any physical observable (such as current or density) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Rosario E. V. Profumo , Christoph Groth , Laura Messio , Olivier Parcollet , Xavier Waintal

The quantum Monte-Carlo method is applied to two-dimensional electron systems under strong magnetic fields. The negative-sign problem involved by this method can be avoided for certain filling factors by modifying interaction parameters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sei Suzuki , Tatsuya Nakajima

In this work, we study the correlation between entanglement and the negative sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo for the simulation of low-dimensional strongly correlated quantum many body systems. Entanglement entropy characterizes the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Ping Xu , Yang Shen , Yuan-Yao He , Mingpu Qin

Estimating the eigenvalue or energy gap of a Hamiltonian H is vital for studying quantum many-body systems. Particularly, many of the problems in quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics, and nuclear physics investigate the energy gap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Yongdan Yang , Ying Li , Xiaosi Xu , Xiao Yuan

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach is applied to a problem of a single spin-down fermion resonantly interacting with the sea of ideal spin-up fermions. On one hand, we develop a generic, sign-problem tolerant, method of exact numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

The sign problem is a notorious problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo simulations of a system with the partition function whose integrand is not real positive. The basic idea of the factorization method applied on such a system is to control…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-14 Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Takehiro Azuma , Jun Nishimura

Wave-function Monte Carlo methods are an important tool for simulating quantum systems, but the standard method cannot be used to simulate decoherence in continuously measured systems. Here we present a new Monte Carlo method for such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kurt Jacobs

We study kinetic Monte-Carlo (KMC) descriptions of active particles. By relying on large discrete time steps, KMC algorithms accelerate the relaxational dynamics of active systems towards their steady-state. We show, however, that their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-30 Juliane U. Klamser , Olivier Dauchot , Julien Tailleur

The computational complexity of simulating quantum many-body systems generally scales exponentially with the number of particles. This enormous computational cost prohibits first principles simulations of many important problems throughout…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Chao Yin , Andrew Lucas