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We present a universal parameter-free quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm designed to simulate arbitrary spin-$1/2$ Hamiltonians. To ensure the convergence of the Markov chain to equilibrium for every conceivable case, we devise a clear and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lev Barash , Arman Babakhani , Itay Hen

In this study we present an optimization method based on the quantum Monte Carlo diagonalization for many-fermion systems. Using the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation, employed to decompose the interactions in terms of auxiliary fields,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Yanagisawa

In the absence of a fermion sign problem, auxiliary field (or determinantal) quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) approaches have long been the numerical method of choice for unbiased, large-scale simulations of interacting many-fermion systems. More…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-22 Peter Broecker , Simon Trebst

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method [arXiv:2012.08468] is an efficient algorithm for addressing the numerical sign problem at moderate computational cost. It mitigates the sign problem while avoiding the ergodicity issues…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Masafumi Fukuma , Yusuke Namekawa

We present a quantum Monte Carlo method which allows calculations on many-fermion systems at finite temperatures without any sign decay. This enables simulations of the grand-canonical ensemble at large system sizes and low temperatures.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Shiwei Zhang

Monte Carlo (MC) reinforcement learning suffers from high sample complexity, especially in environments with sparse rewards, large state spaces, and correlated trajectories. We address these limitations by reformulating episode selection as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hadi Salloum , Ali Jnadi , Yaroslav Kholodov , Alexander Gasnikov

We provide a negative-sign-free formulation of the auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for generalized Kitaev models with higher symmetries. Our formulation is based on the Abrikosov fermion representation of the spin-1/2 degree…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-19 Toshihiro Sato , Fakher F. Assaad

One of the open challenges in quantum computing is to find meaningful and practical methods to leverage quantum computation to accelerate classical machine learning workflows. A ubiquitous problem in machine learning workflows is sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Owen Lockwood , Peter Weiss , Filip Aronshtein , Guillaume Verdon

We present the algorithmic details of the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA), with a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method used to solve the effective cluster problem. The DCA is a fully-causal approach which systematically restores non-local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Jarrell , Th. Maier , C. Huscroft , S. Moukouri

Quantum computers have a potential for solving quantum chemistry problems with higher accuracy than classical computers. Quantum computing quantum Monte Carlo (QC-QMC) is a QMC with a trial state prepared in quantum circuit, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shu Kanno , Hajime Nakamura , Takao Kobayashi , Shigeki Gocho , Miho Hatanaka , Naoki Yamamoto , Qi Gao

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 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

We present a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of general quantum and classical many-body models within a single unifying framework. The algorithm builds on a power series expansion of the quantum partition function in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Lalit Gupta , Tameem Albash , Itay Hen

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

To evaluate the effectiveness of machine learning in systems with competing interactions, we developed a self-learning quantum Monte Carlo (SLQMC) method to simulate the phase transition in the classical Holstein-spin-fermion model. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Shaozhi Li

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 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

Accurate thermodynamic simulations of correlated fermions using path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) methods are of paramount importance for many applications such as the description of ultracold atoms, electrons in quantum dots, and warm-dense…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tobias Dornheim , Michele Invernizzi , Jan Vorberger , Barak Hirshberg

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

In this work, within the framework of path integral Monte Carlo, we construct a pseudo-fermion propagator by replacing the original fermionic determinant with its absolute value. This modified propagator defines an auxiliary system free…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong