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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

We propose a new quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to compute fermion ground-state properties. The ground state is projected from an initial wavefunction by a branching random walk in an over-complete basis space of Slater determinants. By…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Shiwei Zhang , J. Carlson , J. E. Gubernatis

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are one of the most important tools for studying interacting quantum many-body systems. The vast majority of QMC calculations in interacting fermion systems require a constraint to control the sign problem.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-08 Mingpu Qin , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

Ground state properties of the Hubbard model are of fundamental importance to understand the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity in the high-T_c cuprates and other materials. One of the most powerful numerical methods for strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 Jodie Roberts , Beau A. Thompson , R. Torsten Clay

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

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

Quantum many-body systems whose Hamiltonians are non-stoquastic, i.e., have positive off-diagonal matrix elements in a given basis, are known to pose severe limitations on the efficiency of Quantum Monte Carlo algorithms designed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Milad Marvian , Daniel A. Lidar , Itay Hen

The mystery of the infamous sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations mightily restricts applications of the method in fermionic and frustrated systems. A recent work [Science 375, 418 (2022)] made a remarkable breakthrough in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-27 Nvsen Ma , Jun-Song Sun , Gaopei Pan , Chen Cheng , Zheng Yan

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

The triangular lattice antiferromagnet with $S=1/2$ spins and nearest neighbor interactions is known to have long-range antiferromagnetic order, with nearest-neighbor spins at an angle of 120 degrees. Numerical studies of quantum phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Leyna Shackleton , Subir Sachdev

We introduce the adiabatic quantum Monte Carlo (AQMC) method, where we gradually crank up the interaction strength, as an amelioration of the sign problem. It is motivated by the adiabatic theorem and will approach the true ground-state if…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-18 Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi , Amir-Reza Negari , Amin Moharramipour , Abolhassan Vaezi

In this work we solve the sign problem of a frustrated quantum impurity model consisting of three quantum spin-half chains interacting through an anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg interaction at one end. We first map the model into a repulsive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-03 Connor T. Hann , Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Many-electron problems pose some of the greatest challenges in computational science, with important applications across many fields of modern science. Fermionic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are among the most powerful approaches to…

A fundamental open issue in physics is whether and how the fermion sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations can be solved generically. Here, we show that Majorana-time-reversal (MTR) symmetries can provide a unifying principle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-26 Zi-Xiang Li , Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong Yao

The bilayer Hubbard model describes the antiferromagnet to spin singlet transition and, potentially, aspects of the physics of unconventional superconductors. Despite these important applications, significant aspects of its `phase diagram'…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-19 Yingping Mou , Rubem Mondaini , Richard T. Scalettar

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

Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

We point out that Monte Carlo simulations of theories with severe sign problems can be profitably performed over manifolds in complex space different from the one with fixed imaginary part of the action. We describe a family of such…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-03-22 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Gregory W. Ridgway , Neill C. Warrington

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

We present a whole series of novel methods to alleviate the sign problem of the Fermionic Shadow Wave Function in the context of Variational Monte Carlo. The effectiveness of our new techniques is demonstrated on the example of liquid 3He.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Francesco Calcavecchia , Francesco Pederiva , Malvin H. Kalos , Thomas D. Kühne