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Thimble regularisation of lattice field theories has been proposed as a solution to the infamous sign problem. It is conceptually very clean and powerful, but it is in practice limited by a potentially very serious issue: in general many…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-22 Francesco Di Renzo , Kevin Zambello

This work is devoted to the study of the existence and sign of Green's functions for first order linear problems with constant coefficients and initial (one point) conditions. We first prove a result on the existence of solutions of $n$-th…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Alberto Cabada , F. Adrián F. Tojo

In this note, we polynomially reduce an instance of the partition problem to a dynamic lot sizing problem, and show that solving the latter problem solves the former problem. By solving the dynamic program formulation of the dynamic lot…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chee-Khian Sim

The exchange antisymmetry between identical fermions gives rise to the well known fermion sign problem, in the form of large cancellation between positive and negative contribution to the partition function, making any simulation methods…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-31 Xiong Yunuo , Xiong Hongwei

The Monte Carlo evaluation of path integrals is one of a few general purpose methods to approach strongly coupled systems. It is used in all branches of Physics, from QCD/nuclear physics to the correlated electron systems. However, many…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-07-13 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Neill C. Warrington

We apply constant imaginary offsets to the path integral for a reduction of the sign problem in the Hubbard model. These simple transformations enhance the quality of results from HMC calculations without compromising the speed of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-11 Christoph Gäntgen , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Marcel Rodekamp

We propose a method to construct a variety of partition identities at once. The main application is an all-moduli generalization of some of Andrews' results in [5]. The novelty is that the method constructs solutions to functional equations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Kağan Kurşungöz

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

The canonical approach, which was developed for solving the sign problem, may suffer from a new type of sign problem. In the canonical approach, the grand partition function is written as a fugacity expansion: $Z_G(\mu,T) = \sum_n Z_C(n,T)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-05-09 V. A. Goy , V. Bornyakov , D. Boyda , A. Molochkov , A. Nakamura , A. Nikolaev , V. Zakharov

The sign problem is a key challenge in computational physics, encapsulating our inability to properly understand many important quantum many-body phenomena in physics, chemistry and the material sciences. Despite its centrality, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Lalit Gupta , Itay Hen

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

Numerical solving differential equations with fractional derivatives requires elimination of the singularity which is inherent in the standard definition of fractional derivatives. The method of integration by parts to eliminate this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Pavel B. Dubovski , Jeffrey A. Slepoi

Coupling spin models to complex external fields can give rise to interesting phenomena like zeroes of the partition function (Lee-Yang zeroes, edge singularities) or oscillating propagators. Unfortunately, it usually also leads to a severe…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Philippe de Forcrand , Tobias Rindlisbacher

We introduce the feedforward neural network to attack the sign problem via the path optimization method. The variables of integration is complexified and the integration path is optimized in the complexified space by minimizing the cost…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-06 Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa , Akira Ohnishi

Number partitioning is one of the classical NP-hard problems of combinatorial optimization. It has applications in areas like public key encryption and task scheduling. The random version of number partitioning has an "easy-hard" phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens

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

We show that Pinney's equation [2] with a constant coefficient can be reduced to its linear part by a simple change of variables. Also, Pinney's original solution is simplified slightly.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Philip Korman

We present detailed discussions on a new approach we proposed in a previous paper to numerically study quantum spin systems. This method, which we will call re-structuring method hereafter, is based on rearrangement of intermediate states…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-01 Tomo Munehisa , Yasuko Munehisa

It is sometimes speculated that the sign problem that afflicts many quantum field theories might be reduced or even eliminated by choosing an alternative domain of integration within a complexified extension of the path integral (in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-07-14 AuroraScience Collaboration , Marco Cristoforetti , Francesco Di Renzo , Luigi Scorzato

We give a possible explanation for the mystery of a missing number in the statement of a problem that asks for the non-negative integers to be partitioned into three subsets. We interpret the missing number as one of the clues that can lead…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Eunice Krinsky , Serban Raianu , Alexander Wittmond