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We present a novel strategy to strongly reduce the severity of the sign problem, using line integrals along paths of changing imaginary action. Highly oscillating regions along these paths cancel out, decreasing their contributions. As a…

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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

We present the first practical Monte Carlo calculations of the recently proposed Lefschetz thimble formulation of quantum field theories. Our results provide strong evidence that the numerical sign problem that afflicts Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-15 Marco Cristoforetti , Francesco Di Renzo , Abhishek Mukherjee , Luigi Scorzato

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

Towards a solution to 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…

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

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

A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo Bedaque

As an intrinsically-unbiased approach, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is of vital importance in understanding correlated phases of matter. Unfortunately, it often suffers notorious sign problem when simulating interacting fermion models. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-03 Zi-Xiang Li , Zhou-Quan Wan , Hong Yao

The Monte Carlo shell model is a powerful technique for computational nuclear structure. Only a certain class of nuclear interactions, however, such as pairing and quadrupole, are free of the numerical noise known as the sign problem.This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. W. Johnson , D. J. Dean

Fermi gases in strongly coupled regimes, such as the unitary limit, are inherently challenging for many-body methods. Although much progress has been made with purely analytic methods, quantitative results require ab initio numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Dietrich Roscher , Jens Braun , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Joaquín E. Drut

The use of non-orthogonal signals has several benefits over orthogonal signals in multi-coded communications. We provide a novel, theoretical study of non-orthogonal signaling to expand the applicability of these schemes. Motivated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Brian Nelson , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

Quantum Monte Carlo and quantum simulation are both important tools for understanding quantum many-body systems. As a classical algorithm, quantum Monte Carlo suffers from the sign problem, preventing its application to most fermion systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Yongdan Yang , Bing-Nan Lu , Ying Li

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

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 introduce a Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method which efficiently simulates in a sign-problem-free way a broad class of frustrated $S=1/2$ models with competing antiferromagnetic interactions. Our scheme uses the basis of total spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-09 Fabien Alet , Kedar Damle , Sumiran Pujari

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

The shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) method is a powerful method for calculating exactly (up to statistical errors) thermal observables and statistical properties of atomic nuclei. However, its application has been limited by a sign problem…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 Y. Alhassid , P. Fanto , C. Özen

The fermion sign problem remains the primary obstacle in simulating the thermodynamic properties of various fermionic systems. In this work, we present a sign-blocking method to mitigate the numerical instability inherent in the sign…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

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