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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

We propose a novel approach toward the general solution of the sign problem in real-time path-integral simulations. Using a recursive multilevel blocking strategy, this method circumvents the sign problem by synthesizing the phase…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. Mak , R. Egger

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are powerful tools for studying quantum many-body systems but face difficulties in accessing excited states and in treating sign problems. We present a continuous-time path-integral Monte Carlo method for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-16 Abhishek Karna , Hansen S. Wu , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Ribhu K. Kaul

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

The conventional second-order Path Integral Monte Carlo method is plagued with the sign problem in solving many-fermion systems. This is due to the large number of anti-symmetric free fermion propagators that are needed to extract the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Siu A. Chin

Monte Carlo algorithms are barely considered in spin foam quantum gravity. Due to the quantum nature of spin foam amplitudes one cannot readily apply them, and the present sign problem is a threat to convergence and thus efficiency. Yet,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Sebastian Steinhaus

We study the two dimensional Hubbard model by use of the ground state algorithm in the Monte Carlo simulation. We employ complex wave functions as trial function in order to have a close look at properties such as chiral spin order…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-01 Masahiro IMACHI , Hiroshi YONEYAMA

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

A restricted path integral method is proposed to simulate a type of quantum system or Hamiltonian called a sum of controlled few-fermions on a classical computer using Monte Carlo without a numerical sign problem. Then a universality is…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 David H. Wei

The intrinsic nature of a problem usually suggests a first suitable method to deal with it. Unfortunately, the apparent ease of application of these initial approaches may make their possible flaws seem to be inherent to the problem and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Victoriano Carmona , Fernando Fernández-Sánchez

Sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation appears to be an extremely hard yet interesting problem. In this article, we present a pedagogical overview on the origin of the sign problem in various quantum Monte Carlo simulation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-27 Gaopei Pan , Zi Yang Meng

Quantum Monte Carlo is a powerful tool for studying quantum many-body physics, yet its efficacy is often curtailed by the notorious sign problem. In this Letter, we introduce a novel criterion for the "intrinsic" sign problem in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Donghae Seo , Minyoung You , Hee-Cheol Kim , Gil Young Cho

The path optimization method is applied to a QCD effective model with the Polyakov loop and the repulsive vector-type interaction at finite temperature and density to circumvent the model sign problem. We show how the path optimization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-18 Kouji Kashiwa , Yuto Mori , Akira Ohnishi

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, while being efficient for bosons, suffer from the "negative sign problem'' when applied to fermions - causing an exponential increase of the computing time with the number of particles. A polynomial time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Troyer , Uwe-Jens Wiese

We present a general technique for addressing sign problems that arise in Monte Carlo simulations of field theories. This method deforms the domain of the path integral to a manifold in complex field space that maximizes the average sign…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-06 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo Bedaque , Henry Lamm , Scott Lawrence

The \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method is one of the most successful methods in statistical physics, quantum chemistry and related fields, but its application to quantum degenerate Fermi systems is severely hampered by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Tobias Dornheim , Panagiotis Tolias , Simon Groth , Zhandos Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Barak Hirshberg

Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

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

Due to the intrinsic complexity of the quantum many-body problem, quantum Monte Carlo algorithms and their corresponding Monte Carlo configurations can be defined in various ways. Configurations corresponding to few Feynman diagrams often…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-30 Alexander Kowalski , Andreas Hausoel , Markus Wallerberger , Patrik Gunacker , Giorgio Sangiovanni

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
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