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It is shown that the rate of corrections to the hydrogen atom and harmonic oscillator due to profound quantum-gravitational effect of space-time dimension running/reduction coincides well with those obtained by means of the minimum-length…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Maziashvili , Zurab Silagadze

We propose a novel approach toward the general solution of the sign problem in real-time path-integral simulations. Using a recursive multilevel blocking strategy, this method circumvents the sign problem by synthesizing the phase…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. Mak , R. Egger

The response of a test particle, both for the free case and under the harmonic oscillator potential, to circularly polarized gravitational waves is investigated in a noncommutative quantum mechanical setting. The system is quantized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Anirban Saha , Swarup Saha

We find that mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in the quantum Hall regime in silicon MOSFETs display simple and striking patterns. The fluctuations fall into distinct groups which move along lines parallel to loci of integer filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 David H. Cobden , C. H. W. Barnes , C. J. B. Ford

The mystery of the infamous sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations mightily restricts applications of the method in fermionic and frustrated systems. A recent work [Science 375, 418 (2022)] made a remarkable breakthrough in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-27 Nvsen Ma , Jun-Song Sun , Gaopei Pan , Chen Cheng , Zheng Yan

Numerical simulations of numerous quantum systems suffer from the notorious sign problem. Important examples include QCD and other field theories at non-zero chemical potential, at non-zero vacuum angle, or with an odd number of flavors, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Cox , C. Gattringer , K. Holland , B. Scarlet , U. -J. Wiese

The quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is one of the most promising many-body electronic structure approaches. It employs stochastic techniques for solving the stationary Schr\" odinger equation and for evaluation of expectation values. The key…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-20 Michal Bajdich

Canonical quantum gravity provides insights into the quantum dynamics as well as quantum geometry of space-time by its implications for constraints. Loop quantum gravity in particular requires specific corrections due to its quantization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Bojowald

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

We show how the effects of large numbers of measurements on many-body quantum ground and thermal states can be studied using Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). Density matrices generated by measurement in this setting feature products of many local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Kriti Baweja , David J. Luitz , Samuel J. Garratt

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 simulators, in which well controlled quantum systems are used to reproduce the dynamics of less understood ones, have the potential to explore physics that is inaccessible to modeling with classical computers. However, checking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Senko , J. Smith , P. Richerme , A. Lee , W. C. Campbell , C. Monroe

General relativity promotes space-time to a physical, dynamical object subject to equations of motion. Quantum gravity, accordingly, must provide a quantum framework for space-time, applicable on the smallest distance scales. Just like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-15 Martin Bojowald

The fundamental collective degree of freedom of fractional quantum Hall states is identified as a unimodular two-dimensional spatial metric that characterizes the local shape of the correlations of the incompressible fluid. Its quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 F. D. M. Haldane

The multilevel blocking algorithm recently proposed as a possible solution to the sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations has been extended to systems with long-ranged interactions along the Trotter direction. As an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Egger , L. Muehlbacher , C. H. Mak

Quantum gravity places entirely new challenges on the formulation of a consistent theory as well as on an extraction of potentially observable effects. Quantum corrections due to the gravitational field are commonly expected to be tiny…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald

In principe, General Relativity seems to allow the existence of closed timelike curves (CTC). However, when quantum effects are considered, it is likely that their existence is prevented by some kind of chronological protection mechanism,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Gonzalo Martín-Vázquez , Carlos Sabín

In this paper we will analyze the the status of gauge freedom in quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum field theory (QFT). Along with this analysis comparison with ordinary QFT will be given. We will show how the gauge freedom problem is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jaroslaw Wawrzycki

The fermion sign problem poses a formidable challenge to the use of Monte Carlo methods for lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermionic matter fields. A meron cluster algorithm recently formulated for gauge fields represented as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-18 Pallabi Dey , Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman

Time reversal symmetry is a fundamental property of many quantum mechanical systems. The relation between statistical physics and time reversal is subtle and not all statistical theories conserve this particular symmetry, most notably…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Miriam Scharnke , Niclas Schlünzen , Michael Bonitz