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The sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo calculations is analyzed using the meron-cluster solution. The concept of merons can be used to solve the sign problem for a limited class of models. Here we show that the method can be used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Sara Bergkvist , Patrik Henelius , Anders Rosengren

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

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

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 method is applied to fractional quantum Hall systems. The use of the linear programming method enables us to avoid the negative-sign problem in the Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The formulation of this method and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sei Suzuki , Tatsuya Nakajima

We extend the recently introduced phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to any single-particle basis, and apply it to molecular systems with Gaussian basis sets. QMC methods in general scale favorably with system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Al-Saidi , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

The QCD at finite density is not well understood yet, where standard Monte Carlo simulation suffers from the sign problem. In order to overcome the sign problem, the method of Lefschetz thimble has been explored. Basically, the original…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Shoichiro Tsutsui , Takahiro M. Doi

A continuous-time path integral Quantum Monte Carlo method using the directed-loop algorithm is developed to simulate the Anderson single-impurity model in the occupation number basis. Although the method suffers from a sign problem at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaebeom Yoo , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Harold U. Baranger

A method is proposed to handle the sign problem in the simulation of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures. In general, this new approach, which is based on renormalisation blocking, is shown to yield statistical errors…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 J. F. Markham , T. D. Kieu

We study the sign problem in the Hubbard model on the hexagonal lattice away from half-filling using the Lefschetz thimbles method. We identify the saddle points, reduce their amount, and perform quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-13 Maksim Ulybyshev , Christopher Winterowd , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We propose a new sampling method to calculate the ground state of interacting quantum systems. This method, which we call the adaptive sampling quantum monte carlo (ASQMC) method utilises information from the high temperature density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoshihiro ASAI

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 numerically exact Inchworm Monte Carlo method for equilibrium multiorbital quantum impurity problems with general interactions and hybridizations. We show that the method, originally developed to overcome the dynamical sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-25 Eitan Eidelstein , Emanuel Gull , Guy Cohen

Computational methods both open the frontiers of economic analysis and serve as a bottleneck in what can be achieved. We are the first to study whether Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm can improve the runtime of economic applications and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Vladimir Skavysh , Sofia Priazhkina , Diego Guala , Thomas R. Bromley

Many machine learning problems optimize an objective that must be measured with noise. The primary method is a first order stochastic gradient descent using one or more Monte Carlo (MC) samples at each step. There are settings where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Sifan Liu , Art B. Owen

To tackle the sign problem in the simulations of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures, we propose a new approach which yields statistical errors smaller than the crude Monte Carlo using absolute values of the original…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 T D Kieu , C J Griffin

We propose a framework based on the concept of the semigroup to understand the fermion sign problem. By using properties of contraction semigroups, we obtain sufficient conditions for quantum lattice fermion models to be sign-problem-free.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-28 Zhong-Chao Wei

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 show how the effects of large numbers of measurements on many-body quantum ground and thermal states can be studied using Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). Density matrices generated by measurement in this setting feature products of many local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Kriti Baweja , David J. Luitz , Samuel J. Garratt

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for estimating integrals are attractive since the resulting estimators typically converge at a faster rate than pseudo-random Monte Carlo. However, they can be difficult to set up on arbitrary posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Tobias Schwedes , Ben Calderhead