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The path optimization method, which is proposed to control the sign problem in quantum field theories with continuous degrees of freedom by machine learning, is applied to a spin model with discrete degrees of freedom. The path optimization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-25 Kouji Kashiwa , Yusuke Namekawa , Akira Ohnishi , Hayato Takase

Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) simulations involving fermions have the notorious sign problem. Some well-known exceptions of the auxiliary field QMC algorithm rely on the factorizibility of the fermion determinant. Recently, a fermionic QMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-06 Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng 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

We investigate the sign problem of the fermion determinant at finite baryon density in (1+1) dimensions, in which the ground state in the chiral limit should be free from the sign problem by forming a chiral spiral. To confirm it, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-25 Ryutaro Fukuda , Kenji Fukushima , Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka

Approaches to finite baryon density lattice QCD usually suffer from uncontrolled systematic uncertainties in addition to the well-known sign problem. We test a method - sign reweighting - that works directly at finite chemical potential and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-09 Attila Pasztor , Szabolcs Borsanyi , Zoltan Fodor , Kornel Kapas , Sandor D. Katz , Matteo Giordano , Daniel Nogradi , Chik Him Wong

The sign problem is notorious in Monte Carlo simulations of lattice QCD with the finite density, lattice field theory (LFT) with a $\theta$ term and quantum spin models. In this report, to deal with the sign problem, we apply the maximum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 Masahiro Imachi , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama

Lattice scalar field theories encounter a sign problem when the coupling constant is complex. This is a close cousin of the real-time sign problems that afflict the lattice Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, and a more distant relative of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-28 Scott Lawrence , Hyunwoo Oh , Yukari Yamauchi

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

The sign problem is a notorious problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo simulations of a system with a partition function whose integrand is not positive. One way to simulate such a system is to use the factorization method where one enforces…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-08 Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Takehiro Azuma , Jun Nishimura

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of quantum many body systems are plagued by the Fermion sign problem. The computational complexity of simulating Fermions scales exponentially in the projection time $\beta$ and system size. The sign problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-02 Ryan Levy , Bryan K. Clark

We study one-dimensional QCD at finite quark density by using the sign optimization framework. The fermion sign problem is mitigated by deforming the path integral domain, $SU(3)$ to a complexified one ${\cal M} \subset SL(3)$, explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-30 Gokce Basar , Joesph Marincel

The concept of Lefschetz thimble decomposition is one of the most promising possible modifications of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms aimed at alleviating the sign problem which appears in many interesting physical situations, e.g. in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-07 M. V. Ulybyshev , S. N. Valgushev

Lattice field theory with the $\theta$ term suffers from the sign problem. The sign problem appears as flattening of the free energy. As an alternative to the conventional method, the Fourier transform method (FTM), we apply the maximum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 Masahiro Imachi , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama

Monte Carlo studies involving real time dynamics are severely restricted by the sign problem that emerges from highly oscillatory phase of the path integral. In this letter, we present a new method to compute real time quantities on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-24 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Sohan Vartak , Neill C. Warrington

We consider a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm which is applicable to lattice theories defined on Lefschetz thimbles. In the algorithm, any point (field configuration) on a thimble is parametrized uniquely by the flow-direction and the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-17 H. Fujii , D. Honda , M. Kato , Y. Kikukawa , S. Komatsu , T. Sano

We propose a mechanism for solving the `negative sign problem'---the inability to assign non-negative weights to quantum Monte Carlo configurations---for a toy model consisting of a frustrated triplet of spin-$1/2$ particles interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Itay Hen

We review recent attempts at dealing with the sign problem in Monte Carlo calculations by deforming the region of integration in the path integral from real to complex fields. We discuss the theoretical foundations, the algorithmic issues…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Paulo F. Bedaque

We study the fermion sign problem in a theory of non-relativistic fermions with a spin-independent repulsive interaction. We work in polar co-ordinates in momentum space, which makes it straightforward to keep only the low-energy degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-04-14 Mark G. Alford , Andrei Kryjevski

The fermion bag approach is a new method to tackle fermion sign problems in lattice field theories. Using this approach it is possible to solve a class of sign problems that seem unsolvable by traditional methods. The new solutions emerge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-04-18 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are the gold standard for studying equilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems -- their phase transitions, ground and thermal state properties. However, in many interesting situations QMC methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Dominik Hangleiter , Ingo Roth , Daniel Nagaj , Jens Eisert