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The negative-sign problem in one-dimensional frustrated quantum spin systems is solved. We can remove negative signs of the local Boltzmann weights by using a dimer basis that has the spin-reversal symmetry. Validity of this new basis is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Tota Nakamura

We present a general strategy to solve the notorious fermion sign problem using cluster algorithms. The method applies to various systems in the Hubbard model family as well as to relativistic fermions. Here it is illustrated for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-11 Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Uwe-Jens Wiese

We show that there is no fermion sign problem in the Hirsch and Fye algorithm for the single-impurity Anderson model. Beyond the particle-hole symmetric case for which a simple proof exists, this has been known only empirically. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jaebeom Yoo , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Ribhu K. Kaul , Denis Ullmo , Harold U. Baranger

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

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 propose a new approach to the fermion sign problem in systems where there is a coupling $U$ such that when it is infinite the fermions are paired into bosons and there is no fermion permutation sign to worry about. We argue that as $U$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Using equivalencies between different models we reduce the model of two spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains crossed at one point to the model of free fermions. The spin-spin correlation function is calculated by summing the perturbation series in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Reyes , A. M. Tsvelik

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

We experimentally study the two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model using a Rydberg-based quantum processing unit in the analog mode. Our approach avoids encoding directly the original fermions into qubits and instead relies on reformulating…

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations provide one of the more powerful and versatile numerical approaches to condensed matter systems. However, their application to frustrated quantum spin models, in all relevant temperature regimes, is hamstrung…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-20 Stefan Wessel , B. Normand , Frédéric Mila , Andreas Honecker

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

We prove that sign problems in the traditional approach to some lattice Yukawa models can be completely solved when the fermions are formulated using fermion bags and the bosons are formulated in the worldline representation. We prove this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-30 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

The bilayer Hubbard model describes the antiferromagnet to spin singlet transition and, potentially, aspects of the physics of unconventional superconductors. Despite these important applications, significant aspects of its `phase diagram'…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-19 Yingping Mou , Rubem Mondaini , Richard T. Scalettar

Many fascinating systems suffer from a severe (complex action) sign problem preventing us from calculating them with Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations. One promising method to alleviate the sign problem is the transformation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-18 Marcel Rodekamp , Christoph Gäntgen

This work shows that the recently discovered operator contraction identity for solving the discreet Path Integral of the harmonic oscillator can be applied equally to fermions in any dimension. This then yields an exactly solvable model for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Siu A. Chin

We show that, by an appropriate choice of auxiliary fields and exact integration of the phonon degrees of freedom, it is possible to define a 'sign-free' path integral for the so called Hubbard-Holstein model at half-filling. We use a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-21 Seher Karakuzu , Kazuhiro Seki , Sandro Sorella

Nowadays the term 'sign problem' is used to identify two different problems. The ideas to overcome the first type of the 'sign problem' of strongly oscillating complex valued imtegrand in the Feynman path integrals comes from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Vladimir Filinov , Alexander Larkin

For important classes of many-fermion problems, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods allow exact calculations of ground-state and finite-temperature properties, without the sign problem. The list spans condensed matter, nuclear physics, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

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

Large quantum simulators, with sufficiently many qubits to be impossible to simulate classically, become hard to experimentally validate. We propose two tests of a quantum simulator with Heisenberg interaction in a linear chain of spins. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Yiping Wang , Minh Cong Tran , Jacob M. Taylor