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This report contains both a review of recent approaches to supersymmetric lattice field theories and some new results on the deconstruction approach. The essential reason for the complex phase problem of the fermion determinant is shown to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 Joel Giedt

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

Lattice simulations on SU(2) and SU(3) gauge theories with matter fields in the fundamental, adjoint and two index symmetric representations are needed to determine if these theories are near or within the conformal window as required for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-03 T. Karavirta , K. Rummukainen , K. Tuominen

We give a survey and unified treatment of functional integral representations for both simple random walk and some self-avoiding walk models, including models with strict self-avoidance, with weak self-avoidance, and a model of walks and…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-07-29 David C. Brydges , John Z. Imbrie , Gordon Slade

We present a whole series of novel methods to alleviate the sign problem of the Fermionic Shadow Wave Function in the context of Variational Monte Carlo. The effectiveness of our new techniques is demonstrated on the example of liquid 3He.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Francesco Calcavecchia , Francesco Pederiva , Malvin H. Kalos , Thomas D. Kühne

Using a simple Gaussian-like Ansatz for the phase distribution of a theory with a complex action, we show how the thimble integration for the average phase factor can be plagued by a strong residual sign problem when the phase of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-12 Jacques Bloch

We discuss some aspects of a new noncombinatorial fermionic approach to the two-dimensional dimer problem in statistical mechanics based on the integration over anticommuting Grassmann variables and factorization ideas for dimer density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Hayn , V. N. Plechko

Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations constitute the gold standard for the estimation of a broad range of equilibrium properties of a host of interacting quantum many-body systems spanning conditions from ultracold atoms to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Paul Hamann , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

We study Siegel superparticle moving in $R^{4|4}$ flat superspace. Canonical quantization is accomplished yielding the massless Wess-Zumino model as an effective field theory. Path integral representation for the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Anton V. Galajinsky , Dmitri M. Gitman

We consider fermionic fields of higher spin on a four-dimensional de Sitter background. A particular emphasis is placed on the Rarita-Schwinger spin-$\tfrac{3}{2}$ case. Both massive fields and gauge fields are considered, and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Dionysios Anninos , Chiara Baracco , Vasileios A. Letsios , Guillermo A. Silva

We present in detail a formulation of the shell model as a path integral and Monte Carlo techniques for its evaluation. The formulation, which linearizes the two-body interaction by an auxiliary field, is quite general, both in the form of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. H. Lang , C. W. Johnson , S. E. Koonin , W. E. Ormand

We develop the complete free boundary analysis for solutions to classical obstacle problems related to nondegenerate nonlinear variational energies. The key tools are optimal $C^{1,1}$ regularity, which we review more generally for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Matteo Focardi , Francesco Geraci , Emanuele Spadaro

We analyze the Euclidean version of supersymmetric quantum mechanics on the lattice by means of a numerical path integral. We consider two different lattice derivatives and improve the actions containing them with respect to supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-02-05 Sebastian Schierenberg , Falk Bruckmann

Feynman diagrams are an essential tool for simulating strongly correlated electron systems. However, stochastic quantum Monte Carlo sampling suffers from the sign problem, particularly when solving a multiorbital quantum impurity model.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-28 Hirone Ishida , Natsuki Okada , Shintaro Hoshino , Hiroshi Shinaoka

We provide a detailed exposition of the connections between Boltzmann machines commonly utilized in machine learning problems and the ideas already well known in quantum statistical mechanics through Feynman's description of the same. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Srinivasan S. Iyengar , Sabre Kais

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…

We discuss the master equation approach to diffusive current of bosonic or fermionic carriers in one- and two-dimensional lattices. This approach is shown to reproduce all known results of the linear response theory, including the integer…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrey R. Kolovsky

In Wigner function approach with relaxation time approximation, we calculate electric and magnetic conductivities of a fermion system in the strong magnetic field. The linear response has been calculated to the perturbation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Hao-Hao Peng , Xin-Li Sheng , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

We study almost complete intersection ideals in a polynomial ring, generated by powers of all the variables together with a power of their sum. Our main result is an explicit description of the reduced Gr\"obner bases for these ideals under…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Filip Jonsson Kling , Samuel Lundqvist , Fatemeh Mohammadi , Matthias Orth

In this work, an effective fermion model with particular higher order interactions given by: $I_{II} = \sum_n^N g_{2^n} (\bar{\psi}_a \psi_a)^{2^n}$, for finite $N$, is investigated by means of the auxiliary field method by taking into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-30 Fabio L. Braghin