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In this work we introduce a worldline based fermion Monte Carlo algorithm for studying few body quantum mechanics of self-interacting fermions in the Hamiltonian lattice formulation. Our motivation to construct the method comes from our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-28 Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Son T. Nguyen , Thomas R. Richardson

The fermion sign problem, the biggest obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, is completely solved in this paper. Here, we find a strategy, in which the contribution from those negative-weighted paths is thoroughly cancelled or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 J. Wang , D. Y. Sun

The notorious sign problem severely limits the applicability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, as statistical errors grow exponentially with system size and inverse temperature. A recent proposal of a quantum-computing stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Kwai-Kong Ng , Min-Fong Yang

The infamous sign problem leads to an exponential complexity in Monte Carlo simulations of generic many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, many phases of matter are known to admit a sign-problem-free representative, allowing efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-14 Omri Golan , Adam Smith , Zohar Ringel

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are powerful tools for studying quantum many-body systems but face difficulties in accessing excited states and in treating sign problems. We present a continuous-time path-integral Monte Carlo method for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-16 Abhishek Karna , Hansen S. Wu , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Ribhu K. Kaul

Aiming at evading the notorious sign problem in classical Monte-Carlo approaches to lattice quantum chromodynamics, we present an approach for quantum computing finite-temperature lattice gauge theories at non-zero density. Based on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-23 Zohreh Davoudi , Niklas Mueller , Connor Powers

We develop a Monte Carlo scheme for sampling series of Feynman diagrams for the proper self-energy which are self-consistently expressed in terms of renormalized particle propagators. This approach is used to solve the problem of a single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-08 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

State-of-the-art machine learning techniques promise to become a powerful tool in statistical mechanics via their capacity to distinguish different phases of matter in an automated way. Here we demonstrate that convolutional neural networks…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Peter Broecker , Juan Carrasquilla , Roger G. Melko , Simon Trebst

We present a finite-temperature canonical-ensemble determinant quantum Monte Carlo algorithm that enforces an exact fermion number and enables stable simulations of correlated lattice fermions. We propose a stabilized QR update that reduces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Tu Hong , Kun Chen , Xiao Yan Xu

Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

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

Knowledge of all correlation functions of a system is equivalent to solving the corresponding many-body problem. Already a finite set of correlation functions can be sufficient to describe a quantum many-body system if correlations…

Models of non-interacting fermions coupled to auxilliary classical degrees of freedom are relevant to the understanding of a wide variety of problems in many body physics, {\it e.g.} the description of manganites, diluted magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-29 Przemysław R. Grzybowski , Łukasz Czekaj , Mariusz Nogala , Adam Ścibior , Ravindra W. Chhajlany

Gauge theory is the framework of the Standard Model of particle physics and is also important in condensed matter physics. As its major non-perturbative approach, lattice gauge theory is traditionally implemented using Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Xiaopeng Cui , Yu Shi , Ji-Chong Yang

We explore different ways of incorporating accurate trial wave functions into free projection auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (fp-AFQMC). Trial states employed include coupled cluster singles and doubles, multi-Slater, and symmetry…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma

The structure and dynamics of quantum many-body systems are the result of a delicate interplay between underlying interactions, which leads to intricate entanglement structures. Despite this apparent complexity, symmetries emerge and have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Marc Illa , Caroline E. P. Robin , Martin J. Savage

The sign problem obstructs the determination of the QCD phase diagram in the temperature-baryon chemical potential plane using lattice QCD. We review the sign problem in QCD and related field theories, including applications to real-time…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-07 Gert Aarts , Dénes Sexty

A numerical method is presented for reproducing fermionic quantum gas microscope experiments in equilibrium. By employing nested componentwise direct sampling of fermion pseudo-density matrices, as they arise naturally in determinantal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-31 Stephan Humeniuk , Yuan Wan

We present a general technique for addressing sign problems that arise in Monte Carlo simulations of field theories. This method deforms the domain of the path integral to a manifold in complex field space that maximizes the average sign…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-06 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo Bedaque , Henry Lamm , Scott Lawrence

The sign problem is the fundamental limitation to quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the statistical mechanics of interacting fermions. Determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is one of the leading methods to study lattice models such as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 V. I. Iglovikov , E. Khatami , R. T. Scalettar
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