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The quantum theory of antiferromagnetism in metals is necessary for our understanding of numerous intermetallic compounds of widespread interest. In these systems, a quantum critical point emerges as external parameters (such as chemical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-24 Erez Berg , Max A. Metlitski , Subir Sachdev

As an intrinsically unbiased method, the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method is of unique importance in simulating interacting quantum systems. Although the QMC method often suffers from the notorious sign problem, the sign problem of quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-03 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shi-Xin Zhang , Hong Yao

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations constitute nowadays one of the most powerful methods to study strongly correlated quantum systems, provided that no "sign problem" arises. However, many systems of interest, including highly frustrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Andreas Honecker , Lukas Weber , Philippe Corboz , Frédéric Mila , Stefan Wessel

Ab-initio Monte Carlo simulations of strongly-interacting fermionic systems are plagued by the fermion sign problem, making the non-perturbative study of many interesting regimes of dense quantum matter, or of theories of odd numbers of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-05 Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman

Sign problem in fermion quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation appears to be an extremely hard problem. Traditional lore passing around for years tells people that when there is a sign problem, the average sign in QMC simulation approaches…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Xu Zhang , Gaopei Pan , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng

We explore a novel and straightforward solution to the sign problem that has plagued the Auxiliary-field Monte Carlo (AFMC) method applied to many-body systems for more than a decade. We present a solution to the sign problem that has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-08-23 G. Stoitcheva , W. E. Ormand , D. Neuhauser , D. J. Dean

The notorious fermion sign problem, arising from fermion statistics, presents a fundamental obstacle to the numerical simulation of quantum many-body systems. Here, we introduce a framework that circumvents the sign problem in the studies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi-Xuan Li , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li

We discuss finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo methods in the framework of the interacting nuclear shell model. The methods are based on a representation of the imaginary-time many-body propagator as a superposition of one-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Y. Alhassid

Although stoquastic Hamiltonians are known to be simulable via sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques, the non-stoquasticity of a Hamiltonian does not necessarily imply the existence of a QMC sign problem. We give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Itay Hen

We present a quantum Monte Carlo method which allows calculations on many-fermion systems at finite temperatures without any sign decay. This enables simulations of the grand-canonical ensemble at large system sizes and low temperatures.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Shiwei Zhang

This review summarizes recent developments in the study of fermionic quantum criticality, focusing on new progress in numerical methodologies, especially quantum Monte Carlo methods, and insights that emerged from recently large-scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-10 Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Hong Liu , Gaopei Pan , Yang Qi , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

Metallic quantum critical phenomena are believed to play a key role in many strongly correlated materials, including high temperature superconductors. Theoretically, the problem of quantum criticality in the presence of a Fermi surface has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-03 Erez Berg , Samuel Lederer , Yoni Schattner , Simon Trebst

Finding the ground state of a fermionic Hamiltonian using quantum Monte Carlo is a very difficult problem, due to the Fermi sign problem. While still scaling exponentially, full configuration-interaction Monte Carlo (FCI-QMC) mitigates some…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Bryan K. Clark

We present a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of general quantum and classical many-body models within a single unifying framework. The algorithm builds on a power series expansion of the quantum partition function in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Lalit Gupta , Tameem Albash , Itay Hen

We present a new Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating quantum spin systems which is able to suppress the negative sign problem. This algorithm has only a linear complexity in the lattice size used for the simulation. A general description…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Galli

Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful tool for elucidating the properties of complex systems across many disciplines. Not requiring any a priori knowledge, they are particularly well suited for exploring new phenomena. However, when…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Mauro Iazzi , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Matthias Troyer

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of quantum many body systems are plagued by the Fermion sign problem. The computational complexity of simulating Fermions scales exponentially in the projection time $\beta$ and system size. The sign problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-02 Ryan Levy , Bryan K. Clark

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

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are sophisticated numerical techniques for simulating interacting quantum systems. In some cases, however, they suffer from the notorious "sign problem" and become too inefficient to be useful. A recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-16 K. S. D. Beach , Matthieu Mambrini , Fabien Alet

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