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Building on recent solutions of the fermion sign problem for specific models we present two continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo methods for efficient simulation of mass-imbalanced Hubbard models on bipartite lattices at half-filling. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-18 Ye-Hua Liu , Lei Wang

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

Reliable simulations of correlated quantum systems, including high-temperature superconductors and frustrated magnets, are increasingly desired nowadays to further understanding of essential features in such systems. Quantum Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-28 Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

We revisit the infinite variance problem in fermionic Monte Carlo simulations, which is widely encountered in areas ranging from condensed matter to nuclear and high-energy physics. The different algorithms, which we broadly refer to as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shiwei Zhang

Sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation appears to be an extremely hard yet interesting problem. In this article, we present a pedagogical overview on the origin of the sign problem in various quantum Monte Carlo simulation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-27 Gaopei Pan , Zi Yang Meng

In this paper, we discover a new quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to solve the fermion sign problem in interacting fermion models by employing Majorana representation of complex fermions. We call it "Majorana QMC" (MQMC). Especially, MQMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Zi-Xiang Li , Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong Yao

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

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…

Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) simulations involving fermions have the notorious sign problem. Some well-known exceptions of the auxiliary field QMC algorithm rely on the factorizibility of the fermion determinant. Recently, a fermionic QMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-06 Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Monte Carlo calculations of fermionic systems with continuous auxiliary fields frequently suffer from a diverging variance. If a system has the infinite variance problem, one cannot estimate observables reliably even with an infinite number…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-17 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo Bedaque , Andrea Carosso , Hyunwoo Oh

Finding the ground state of a fermionic Hamiltonian using quantum Monte Carlo is a very difficult problem, due to the Fermi sign problem. While still scaling exponentially, full configuration-interaction Monte Carlo (FCI-QMC) mitigates some…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Bryan K. Clark

We present a quantum Monte Carlo method which allows calculations on many-fermion systems at finite temperatures without any sign decay. This enables simulations of the grand-canonical ensemble at large system sizes and low temperatures.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Shiwei Zhang

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

Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

We introduce a Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method which efficiently simulates in a sign-problem-free way a broad class of frustrated $S=1/2$ models with competing antiferromagnetic interactions. Our scheme uses the basis of total spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-09 Fabien Alet , Kedar Damle , Sumiran Pujari

As an intrinsically unbiased method, the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method is of unique importance in simulating interacting quantum systems. Although the QMC method often suffers from the notorious sign problem, the sign problem of quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-03 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shi-Xin Zhang , Hong Yao

Fermionic Monte Carlo calculations with continuous auxiliary fields often encounter infinite variance problem from fermionic observables. This issue renders the estimation of observables unreliable, even with an infinite number of samples.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-28 Hyunwoo Oh , Andrei Alexandru , Paulo F. Bedaque , Andrea Carosso

We present clear numerical evidence for the coexistence of metallic and insulating dynamical mean field theory(DMFT) solutions in a half-filled single-band Hubbard model with bare semicircular density of states at finite temperatures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Jaewook Joo , Viktor Oudovenko

Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful tool for elucidating the properties of complex systems across many disciplines. Not requiring any a priori knowledge, they are particularly well suited for exploring new phenomena. However, when…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Mauro Iazzi , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Matthias Troyer

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an advanced simulation methodology for studies of manybody quantum systems. In this review, we focus on the electronic structure QMC, i.e., methods relevant for systems described by the electron-ion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-16 Michal Bajdich , Lubos Mitas
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