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We discuss some of the problems that may occur in the calculation of complicated Feynman diagrams. These include the group independent evaluation of color factors, and the summation techniques that are needed for the expansion of diagrams…

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We illustrate the application of Quantum Computing techniques to the investigation of the thermodynamical properties of a simple system, made up of three quantum spins with frustrated pair interactions and affected by a hard sign problem…

We investigate the simulation of fermionic systems on a quantum computer. We show in detail how quantum computers avoid the dynamical sign problem present in classical simulations of these systems, therefore reducing a problem believed to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-05 G. Ortiz , J. E. Gubernatis , E. Knill , R. Laflamme

The new {\em ab initio} quantum path integral Monte Carlo approach has been developed and applied for the entropy difference calculations for the strongly coupled degenerated uniform electron gas (UEG), a well--known model of simple metals.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Vladimir Filinov , Pavel Levashov , Alexander Larkin

High order perturbation theory has seen an unexpected recent revival for controlled calculations of quantum many-body systems, even at strong coupling. We adapt integration methods using low-discrepancy sequences to this problem. They…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-27 Marjan Maček , Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Corentin Bertrand , Bill Triggs , Olivier Parcollet , Xavier Waintal

Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

We introduce a quantum Monte Carlo method to simulate the reversible dynamics of correlated many-body systems. Our method is based on the Laplace transform of the time-evolution operator which, as opposed to most quantum Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Romain Chessex , Massimo Borrelli , Hans Christian Öttinger

We propose a framework based on the concept of the semigroup to understand the fermion sign problem. By using properties of contraction semigroups, we obtain sufficient conditions for quantum lattice fermion models to be sign-problem-free.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-28 Zhong-Chao Wei

Frustrated spin systems generically suffer from the negative sign problem inherent to Monte Carlo methods. Since the severity of this problem is formulation dependent, optimization strategies can be put forward. We introduce a phase pinning…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Toshihiro Sato , Fakher F. Assaad

Fermionic condensation typically occurs via pairing. In recent decades, however, a fundamental question has emerged: whether alternative forms of order exist, such as condensates of fermion quadruplets. These states--including ``charge-4e"…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-04 Alexandru Golic , Egor Babaev , Johan Carlström

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

It has become increasingly feasible to use quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods to study correlated fermion systems for realistic Hamiltonians. We give a summary of these techniques targeted at researchers in the field of correlated electrons,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Lucas K. Wagner , David M. Ceperley

Estimating the trace of the inverse of a large matrix is an important problem in lattice quantum chromodynamics. A multilevel Monte Carlo method is proposed for this problem that uses different degree polynomials for the levels. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-06-19 Paul Lashomb , Ronald B. Morgan , Travis Whyte , Walter Wilcox

We tutorially review the determinantal Quantum Monte Carlo method for fermionic systems, using the Hubbard model as a case study. Starting with the basic ingredients of Monte Carlo simulations for classical systems, we introduce aspects…

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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

The negative sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of cluster impurity problems is the major bottleneck in cluster dynamical mean field calculations. In this paper we systematically investigate the dependence of the sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 Hiroshi Shinaoka , Yusuke Nomura , Silke Biermann , Matthias Troyer , Philipp Werner

A precise dynamical characterization of quantum impurity models with multiple interacting orbitals is challenging. In quantum Monte Carlo methods, this is embodied by sign problems. A dynamical sign problem makes it exponentially difficult…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Andre Erpenbeck , Thomas Blommel , Lei Zhang , Wei-Ting Lin , Guy Cohen , Emanuel Gull

We combine the recent $\eta-$ensemble path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach to the free energy [T.~Dornheim \textit{et al.}, \textit{Phys.~Rev.~B} \textbf{111}, L041114 (2025)] with a recent fictitious partition function technique based…

Self-learning Monte Carlo method [arXiv:1610.03137, 1611.09364] is a powerful general-purpose numerical method recently introduced to simulate many-body systems. In this work, we implement this method in the framework of determinantal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-12 Xiao Yan Xu , Yang Qi , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu , Zi Yang Meng

We consider the problem of estimating the expected outcomes of Monte Carlo processes whose outputs are described by multidimensional random variables. We tightly characterize the quantum query complexity of this problem for various choices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Arjan Cornelissen , Sofiene Jerbi