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To account for the interference effects of the Coulomb and exchange interactions of electrons a new path integral representation of the density matrix has been developed in the canonical ensemble at finite temperatures. The developed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Vladimir Filinov , Pavel Levashov , Alexander Larkin

Quantum simulations are a powerful tool for exploring strongly correlated many-body phenomena. Yet, their reach is limited by the fermion sign problem, which causes configuration weights to become negative, compromising statistical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Ryan Larson , Rubem Mondaini , Richard T. Scalettar

Quantum annealing is a generic solver of the optimization problem that uses fictitious quantum fluctuation. Its simulation in classical computing is often performed using the quantum Monte Carlo simulation via the Suzuki--Trotter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Masayuki Ohzeki

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

The application of state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to statistical physic problems has seen a surge of interest for their ability to discriminate phases of matter by extracting essential features in the many-body wavefunction or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-04 Peter Broecker , Fakher F. Assaad , Simon Trebst

The auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFMC) method is a powerful and widely used technique for ground-state and finite-temperature simulations of quantum many-body systems. We introduce several algorithmic improvements for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 C. N. Gilbreth , S. Jensen , Y. Alhassid

It is commonly believed that in quantum Monte Carlo approaches to fermionic many- body problems, the infamous sign problem generically implies prohibitively large computational times for obtaining thermodynamic-limit quantities. We point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-13 R. Rossi , N. Prokof'ev , B. Svistunov , K. Van Houcke , F. Werner

The projective quantum Monte Carlo (PQMC) algorithms are among the most powerful computational techniques to simulate the ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. However, they are efficient only if a sufficiently accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-04 S. Pilati , E. M. Inack , P. Pieri

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods such as Variational Monte Carlo, Diffusion Monte Carlo or Path Integral Monte Carlo are the most accurate and general methods for computing total electronic energies. We will review methods we have…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Ceperley , Mark Dewing , Carlo Pierleoni

The fermion sign problem constitutes one of the most fundamental obstacles in quantum many-body theory. Recently, it has been suggested to circumvent the sign problem by carrying out path integral simulations with a fictitious quantum…

We propose a projection approach to perform quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation on the infinite-$U$ Hubbard model at some integer fillings where either it is sign problem free or surprisingly has an algebraic sign structure -- a power law…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-28 Yunqing Ouyang , Xiao Yan Xu

A two-dimensional lattice hard-core boson system with a small fraction of bosonic or fermionic impurity particles is studied. The impurities have the same hopping and interactions as the dominant bosons and their effects are solely due to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders. W. Sandvik

The simulation of systems of interacting fermions is one of the most anticipated applications of quantum computers. The most interesting simulations will require a fault-tolerant quantum computer, and building such a device remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kevin J. Sung , Marko J. Rančić , Olivia T. Lanes , Nicholas T. Bronn

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques are widely used in a variety of scientific problems and much work has been dedicated to developing optimized algorithms that can accelerate QMC on standard processors (CPU). With the advent of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Shuvro Chowdhury , Kerem Y. Camsari , Supriyo Datta

Quantum many-body (QMB) systems are generally computationally hard: the computing resources necessary to simulate them exactly can often exceed the existing computation resources by orders of magnitude. For this reason, Richard Feynman…

We investigate the quantum equation of motion (qEOM), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for computing excitation properties of a fermionic many-body system, with a particular emphasis on the strong-coupling regime. The method is designed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Manqoba Q. Hlatshwayo , John Novak , Elena Litvinova

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

We develop a strong-coupling perturbation scheme for a generic Hubbard model around a half-filled particle-hole-symmetric reference system, which is free from the fermionic sign problem. The approach is based on the lattice determinantal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Sergei Iskakov , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Alexander I. Lichtenstein

The \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method is one of the most successful methods in statistical physics, quantum chemistry and related fields, but its application to quantum degenerate Fermi systems is severely hampered by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Tobias Dornheim , Panagiotis Tolias , Simon Groth , Zhandos Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Barak Hirshberg

We introduce a new class of quantum Monte Carlo methods, based on a Gaussian quantum operator representation of fermionic states. The methods enable first-principles dynamical or equilibrium calculations in many-body Fermi systems, and,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. F. Corney , P. D. Drummond