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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

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 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

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are uniquely capable of providing exact simulations of quantum many-body systems. Unfortunately, the applications of a QMC simulation are limited because extracting dynamic properties requires solving the…

Monte Carlo simulations are useful tools for modeling quantum systems, but in some cases they suffer from a sign problem, leading to an exponential slow down in their convergence to a value. While solving the sign problem is generically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 T. C. Mooney , Jacob Bringewatt , Neill C. Warrington , Lucas T. Brady

Solving the ground state of quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge in physics and chemistry. Recent advancements in quantum hardware have opened new avenues for addressing this challenge. Inspired by the quantum-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Longfei Chang , Zhendong Li , Wei-Hai Fang

We investigate the applicability of Quasi-Monte Carlo methods to Euclidean lattice systems for quantum mechanics in order to improve the asymptotic error behavior of observables for such theories. In most cases the error of an observable…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-19 K. Jansen , H. Leovey , A. Ammon , A. Griewank , M. Müller-Preussker

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 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

We present a Maximum Entropy method (MEM) for obtaining dynamical spectra from Quantum Monte Carlo data which have a sign problem. By relating the sign fluctuations to the norm of the spectra, our method properly treats the correlations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Macridin , S. P. Doluweera , M. Jarrell , Th. Maier

The "sign problem" (SP) is the fundamental limitation to simulations of strongly correlated materials in condensed matter physics, solving quantum chromodynamics at finite baryon density, and computational studies of nuclear matter. As a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-09 Rubem Mondaini , Sabyasachi Tarat , Richard T. Scalettar

We present a hybrid quantum-classical Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) algorithm for estimating the excited states of the nuclear shell model. The conventional GFMC method, widely used to find the ground state of a quantum many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yongdan Yang , Ruyu Yang , Xiaosi Xu

Recently, a new method, based on stochastic integration on the surfaces of steepest descent of the action, was introduced to tackle the sign problem in quantum field theories. We show how this method can be used in many body theories to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-25 Abhishek Mukherjee , Marco Cristoforetti

When one tries to simulate quantum spin systems by the Monte Carlo method, often the 'minus-sign problem' is encountered. In such a case, an application of probabilistic methods is not possible. In this paper the method has been proposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacek Wojtkiewicz

Here we develop a new scheme of projective quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) simulation combining unbiased zero-temperature (projective) determinant QMC and variational Monte-Carlo based on Gutzwiller projection wave function, dubbed as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-08 Wei-Xuan Chang , Zi-Xiang Li

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

Quantum Monte Carlo is one of the most powerful numerical tools for studying nonpeturbative properties of quantum many-body systems. However, its application to real-time problems is limited since the complex and highly-oscillating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Tomoya Hayata

We consider the numerical analysis of the inchworm Monte Carlo method, which is proposed recently to tackle the numerical sign problem for open quantum systems. We focus on the growth of the numerical error with respect to the simulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Zhenning Cai , Jianfeng Lu , Siyao Yang

Frustrated spin systems generically suffer from the negative sign problem inherent to Monte Carlo methods. Since the severity of this problem is formulation dependent, optimization strategies can be put forward. We introduce a phase pinning…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Toshihiro Sato , Fakher F. Assaad

The quantum Monte-Carlo method is applied to two-dimensional electron systems under strong magnetic fields. The negative-sign problem involved by this method can be avoided for certain filling factors by modifying interaction parameters…

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