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We present a solution to the sign problem in a class of particle-hole symmetric Hamiltonian lattice fermion models on bipartite lattices using the idea of fermion bags. The solution remains valid when the particle-hole symmetry is broken…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-03 Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

The multilevel blocking algorithm recently proposed as a possible solution to the sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations has been extended to systems with long-ranged interactions along the Trotter direction. As an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Egger , L. Muehlbacher , C. H. Mak

The study of lattice gauge theories with Monte Carlo simulations is hindered by the infamous sign problem that appears under certain circumstances, in particular at non-zero chemical potential. So far, there is no universal method to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-03-27 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , J. Ignacio Cirac , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn , Hana Saito

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 numerical and computational aspects of the overlap formalism in lattice quantum chromodynamics are extremely demanding due to a matrix-vector product that involves the sign function of the hermitian Wilson matrix. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 J. van den Eshof , A. Frommer , Th. Lippert , K. Schilling , H. A. van der Vorst

We investigate the properties of the half-filling point in lattice QCD (LQCD), in particular the disappearance of the sign problem and the emergence of an apparent particle-hole symmetry, and try to understand where these properties come…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-02-22 Tobias Rindlisbacher , Philippe de Forcrand

The negative sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of cluster impurity problems is the major bottleneck in cluster dynamical mean field calculations. In this paper we systematically investigate the dependence of the sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 Hiroshi Shinaoka , Yusuke Nomura , Silke Biermann , Matthias Troyer , Philipp Werner

We formulate a path-integral Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating lattice systems consisting of fictitious particles governed by a generalized exchange statistics. This method, initially proposed for continuum systems, introduces a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Zhijie Fan , Tianning Xiao , Youjin Deng

Quantum chromodynamics, most commonly referred to as QCD, is a relativistic quantum field theory for the strong interaction between subatomic particles called quarks and gluons. The most systematic way of calculating the strong interactions…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-06-06 Dean P. Thomas , Rita Borgo , Robert S. Laramee , Simon J. Hands

In this Letter we employ lattice simulations to search for the critical point of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We search for the onset of a first order QCD transition on the phase diagram by following contours of constant entropy density…

This chapter is devoted to the computation of equilibrium (thermodynamic) properties of quantum systems. In particular, we will be interested in the situation where the interaction between particles is so strong that it cannot be treated as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Alexei Filinov , Jens Böning , Michael Bonitz

For some models of interacting fermions the known solution to the notorious sign-problem in Monte Carlo (MC) simulations is to work with macroscopic fermionic determinants; the price, however, is a macroscopic scaling of the numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Evgueni Bourovski , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

The recently proposed full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method allows access to essentially exact ground-state energies of systems of interacting fermions substantially larger than previously tractable without knowledge of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 J. S. Spencer , N. S. Blunt , W. M. C. Foulkes

The absence of negative sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations of spin and fermion systems has different origins. World-line based algorithms for spins require positivity of matrix elements whereas auxiliary field approaches for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-14 Toshihiro Sato , Fakher F. Assaad , Tarun Grover

The calculation of the ground state and thermodynamics of mass-imbalanced Fermi systems is a challenging many-body problem. Even in one spatial dimension, analytic solutions are limited to special configurations and numerical progress with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-20 Lukas Rammelmüller , William J. Porter , Joaquín E. Drut , Jens Braun

A method is presented to tackle the sign problem in the simulations of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures. In general, this new approach is shown to yield statistical errors smaller than the crude Monte Carlo using…

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

The fermion sign problem poses a formidable challenge to the use of Monte Carlo methods for lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermionic matter fields. A meron cluster algorithm recently formulated for gauge fields represented as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-18 Pallabi Dey , Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman

In the last few years, numerical simulations of QCD on the lattice have reached a new level of accuracy. A wide range of thermodynamic quantities is now available in the continuum limit and for physical quark masses. This allows a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-07-25 Claudia Ratti

Numerical lattice quantum chromodynamics studies of the strong interaction are important in many aspects of particle and nuclear physics. Such studies require significant computing resources to undertake. A number of proposed methods…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-04-08 Phiala E. Shanahan , Amalie Trewartha , William Detmold

We investigate the QCD phase diagram in the strong coupling limit by using a newly developed auxiliary field Monte-Carlo (AFMC) method. Starting from an effective action in the leading order of the 1/g^2 and 1/d expansion with one species…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-13 Akira Ohnishi , Terukazu Ichihara , Takashi Z. Nakano