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We present a real-time quantum Monte Carlo algorithm that simulates the dynamics of open quantum systems by stochastically compressing and evolving the density matrix under both Markovian and non-Markovian master equations. Our algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Tong Shen , Daniel A. Lidar

Differentiable programming has emerged as a key programming paradigm empowering rapid developments of deep learning while its applications to important computational methods such as Monte Carlo remain largely unexplored. Here we present the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Shi-Xin Zhang , Zhou-Quan Wan , Hong Yao

The self-healing diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm (SHDMC) [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79}, 195117 (2009), {\it ibid.} {\bf 80}, 125110 (2009)] is shown to be an accurate and robust method for calculating the ground state of atoms and molecules. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Michal Bajdich , Murilo L. Tiago , Randolph Q. Hood , Paul R. C. Kent , Fernando A. Reboredo

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

Quantum annealing is a generic solver of the optimization problem that uses fictitious quantum fluctuation. Its simulation in classical computing is often performed using the quantum Monte Carlo simulation via the Suzuki--Trotter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Masayuki Ohzeki

A continuous-time path integral Quantum Monte Carlo method using the directed-loop algorithm is developed to simulate the Anderson single-impurity model in the occupation number basis. Although the method suffers from a sign problem at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaebeom Yoo , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Harold U. Baranger

The Sign Learning Kink (SiLK) based Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method is used to calculate the ab initio ground state energies for multiple geometries of the H$_{2}$O, N$_2$, and F$_2$ molecules. The method is based on Feynman's path…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Xiaoyao Ma , Randall W. Hall , Frank Loffler , Karol Kowalski , Kiran Bhaskaran-Nair , Mark Jarrell , Juana Moreno

It is shown that a class of separately frustration-free (SFF) Hamiltonians can be Monte Carlo simulated efficiently on a classical computing machine, because such an SFF Hamiltonian corresponds to a Gibbs wavefunction whose nodal structure…

General Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 David H. Wei

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods represent a powerful family of computational techniques for tackling complex quantum many-body problems and performing calculations of stationary state properties. QMC is among the most accurate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Alfonso Annarelli , Dario Alfè , Andrea Zen

Monte Carlo simulations away from half-filling suffer from a sign problem that can be reduced by deforming the contour of integration. Such a transformation, which induces a Jacobian determinant in the Boltzmann weight, can be implemented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Marcel Rodekamp , Evan Berkowitz , Christoph Gäntgen , Stefan Krieg , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer

High-temperature superconductivity emerges in a host of different quantum materials, often in a region of the phase diagram where the electronic kinetic energy is comparable in magnitude with the electron-electron Coulomb repulsion.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-14 Morten H. Christensen , Xiaoyu Wang , Yoni Schattner , Erez Berg , Rafael M. Fernandes

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach is applied to a problem of a single spin-down fermion resonantly interacting with the sea of ideal spin-up fermions. On one hand, we develop a generic, sign-problem tolerant, method of exact numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

We present a numerical quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for simulating the 3D phase transition on the recently proposed fuzzy sphere [Phys. Rev. X 13, 021009 (2023)]. By introducing an additional $SU(2)$ layer degree of freedom, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-26 Johannes S. Hofmann , Florian Goth , Wei Zhu , Yin-Chen He , Emilie Huffman

We tutorially review the determinantal Quantum Monte Carlo method for fermionic systems, using the Hubbard model as a case study. Starting with the basic ingredients of Monte Carlo simulations for classical systems, we introduce aspects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Raimundo R. dos Santos

Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is a powerful numerical technique to study many-body fermionic systems. In recent years, several classes of sign-free (SF) models have been discovered, where the notorious sign problem can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-21 Ori Grossman , Erez Berg

We revisit the infinite variance problem in fermionic Monte Carlo simulations, which is widely encountered in areas ranging from condensed matter to nuclear and high-energy physics. The different algorithms, which we broadly refer to as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shiwei Zhang

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a family of powerful tools for addressing quantum many-body problems. However, its applications are often plagued by the fermionic sign problem. A promising strategy is to simulate an interaction without sign…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Jun Liu , Teng Wang , Bing-Nan Lu

Many fascinating systems suffer from a severe (complex action) sign problem preventing us from calculating them with Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations. One promising method to alleviate the sign problem is the transformation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-18 Marcel Rodekamp , Christoph Gäntgen

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations provide one of the more powerful and versatile numerical approaches to condensed matter systems. However, their application to frustrated quantum spin models, in all relevant temperature regimes, is hamstrung…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-20 Stefan Wessel , B. Normand , Frédéric Mila , Andreas Honecker

Ab-initio Monte Carlo simulations of strongly-interacting fermionic systems are plagued by the fermion sign problem, making the non-perturbative study of many interesting regimes of dense quantum matter, or of theories of odd numbers of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-05 Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman