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We present results of the numerical simulation of the two-dimensional Thirring model at finite density and temperature. The severe sign problem is dealt with by deforming the domain of integration into complex field space. This is the first…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-01-11 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Gregory W. Ridgway , Neill C. Warrington

Thimble regularisation of lattice field theories has been proposed as a solution to the infamous sign problem. It is conceptually very clean and powerful, but it is in practice limited by a potentially very serious issue: in general many…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-22 Francesco Di Renzo , Kevin Zambello

A general algorithm toward the solution of the fermion sign problem in finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations has been formulated for discretized fermion path integrals with nearest-neighbor interactions in the Trotter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. Mak , R. Egger , H. Weber-Gottschick

This work shows that the recently discovered operator contraction identity for solving the discreet Path Integral of the harmonic oscillator can be applied equally to fermions in any dimension. This then yields an exactly solvable model for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Siu A. Chin

Lattice models with complex actions are important for the understanding of matter at finite densities, but not accessible by the standard Monte Carlo techniques due to the sign problem. Here we derive a new approach for avoiding the complex…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-09-06 Vasily Sazonov

The fermion sign problem, the biggest obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, is completely solved in this paper. Here, we find a strategy, in which the contribution from those negative-weighted paths is thoroughly cancelled or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 J. Wang , D. Y. Sun

We apply constant imaginary offsets to the path integral for a reduction of the sign problem in the Hubbard model. These simple transformations enhance the quality of results from HMC calculations without compromising the speed of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-11 Christoph Gäntgen , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Marcel Rodekamp

We propose a path optimization method (POM) to evade the sign problem in the Monte-Carlo calculations for complex actions. Among many approaches to the sign problem, the Lefschetz-thimble path-integral method and the complex Langevin method…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-11-05 Akira Ohnishi , Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa

Quantum field theories (QFTs) at finite densities of matter generically involve complex actions. Standard Monte-Carlo simulations based upon importance sampling, which have been producing quantitative first principle results in particle…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-24 Christof Gattringer , Kurt Langfeld

The canonical approach, which was developed for solving the sign problem, may suffer from a new type of sign problem. In the canonical approach, the grand partition function is written as a fugacity expansion: $Z_G(\mu,T) = \sum_n Z_C(n,T)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-05-09 V. A. Goy , V. Bornyakov , D. Boyda , A. Molochkov , A. Nakamura , A. Nikolaev , V. Zakharov

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

Nowadays the term 'sign problem' is used to identify two different problems. The ideas to overcome the first type of the 'sign problem' of strongly oscillating complex valued imtegrand in the Feynman path integrals comes from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Vladimir Filinov , Alexander Larkin

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 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

Long-range interactions in finite density QCD necessitate a non-perturbative approach in order to reliably map out the key features and spectrum of the QCD phase diagram. However, the complex nature of the fermion determinant in this sector…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Dougall

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

We develop a direct diagrammatic Monte Carlo framework for the Renyi entanglement entropy of interacting lattice fermions. The method starts from the fermionic graded-swap representation of Z_n[A]=Tr_A\rho_A^n, which converts the entropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-22 Boyuan Shi

Lattice gauge theories coupled to fermionic matter account for many interesting phenomena in both high energy physics and condensed matter physics. Certain regimes, e.g. at finite fermion density, are difficult to simulate with traditional…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-16 Julian Bender , Patrick Emonts , J. Ignacio Cirac

We propose a new approach to the fermion sign problem in systems where there is a coupling $U$ such that when it is infinite the fermions are paired into bosons and there is no fermion permutation sign to worry about. We argue that as $U$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

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