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Accurate thermodynamic simulations of correlated fermions using path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) methods are of paramount importance for many applications such as the description of ultracold atoms, electrons in quantum dots, and warm-dense…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tobias Dornheim , Michele Invernizzi , Jan Vorberger , Barak Hirshberg

Quantum Monte Carlo belongs to the most accurate simulation techniques for quantum many-particle systems. However, for fermions, these simulations are hampered by the sign problem that prohibits simulations in the regime of strong…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 A. Yilmaz , K. Hunger , T. Dornheim , S. Groth , M. Bonitz

After briefly reviewing the potential for the $N$-flavor Thirring model, formulated with reducible fermions in 2+1$d$, to exhibit a strongly-coupled UV-stable fixed point where U($2N$) symmetry is spontaneously broken by a fermion bilinear…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-27 Simon Hands , Jude Worthy

Quantum field theories at finite matter densities generically possess a partition function that is exponentially suppressed with the volume compared to that of the phase quenched analogue. The smallness arises from an almost uniform…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-02 Nicolas Garron , Kurt Langfeld

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are the gold standard for studying equilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems -- their phase transitions, ground and thermal state properties. However, in many interesting situations QMC methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Dominik Hangleiter , Ingo Roth , Daniel Nagaj , Jens Eisert

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

A $\theta$ term in lattice field theory causes the sign problem in Monte Carlo simulations. This problem can be circumvented by Fourier-transforming the topological charge distribution $P(Q)$. This strategy, however, has a limitation,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 Masahiro Imachi , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama

The fermion bag approach is a new method to tackle fermion sign problems in lattice field theories. Using this approach it is possible to solve a class of sign problems that seem unsolvable by traditional methods. The new solutions emerge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-04-18 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a powerful tool for sampling from complex probability distributions. Despite its versatility, MCMC often suffers from strong autocorrelation and the negative sign problem, leading to slowing down the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-05 Synge Todo

We consider the heavy-dense limit of QCD at finite fermion density in the canonical formulation and approximate it by a 3-state Potts model. In the strong coupling limit, the model is free of the sign problem. Away from the strong coupling,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-09 Andrei Alexandru , Georg Bergner , David Schaich , Urs Wenger

We review a recently proposed approach to the problem of alternating signs for fermionic many body Monte Carlo simulations in finite temperature simulations. We derive an estimate for fermion wandering lengths and introduce the notion of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Dean Lee

We apply the path optimization method to a QCD effective model with the Polyakov loop at finite density to circumvent the model sign problem. The Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model is employed as the typical QCD effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Kouji Kashiwa , Yuto Mori , Akira Ohnishi

Worldline representations were established as a powerful tool for studying bosonic lattice field theories at finite density. For fermions, however, the worldlines still may carry signs that originate from the Dirac algebra and from the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-29 Christof Gattringer

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

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

It is shown that a class of separately frustration-free (SFF) Hamiltonians can be Monte Carlo simulated efficiently on a classical computing machine, because such an SFF Hamiltonian corresponds to a Gibbs wavefunction whose nodal structure…

General Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 David H. Wei

Being motivated by the surge of fermionic quantum Monte Carlo simulations at finite temperature, we present a detailed analysis of the permutation-cycle properties of path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of degenerate electrons.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Alexei Filinov , Michael Bonitz

This article gives an introduction to the multilevel blocking (MLB) approach to both the fermion and the dynamical sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations. MLB is able to substantially relieve the sign problem in many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Egger , C. H. Mak

We investigate the sign problem of the fermion determinant at finite baryon density in (1+1) dimensions, in which the ground state in the chiral limit should be free from the sign problem by forming a chiral spiral. To confirm it, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-25 Ryutaro Fukuda , Kenji Fukushima , Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka

We discuss algorithms for domain wall fermions focussing on accelerating Hybrid Monte Carlo sampling of gauge configurations. Firstly a new multigrid algorithm for domain wall solvers and secondly a domain decomposed hybrid monte carlo…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-04-01 Peter A Boyle , Dennis Bollweg , Christopher Kelly , Azusa Yamaguchi