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Reliable simulations of correlated quantum systems, including high-temperature superconductors and frustrated magnets, are increasingly desired nowadays to further understanding of essential features in such systems. Quantum Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-28 Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

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

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

A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo Bedaque

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

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

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

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of fermions are hampered by the notorious sign problem whose most striking manifestation is an exponential growth of sampling errors with the number of particles. With the sign problem known to be an NP-hard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-23 Peter Broecker , Simon Trebst

Building on recent solutions of the fermion sign problem for specific models we present two continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo methods for efficient simulation of mass-imbalanced Hubbard models on bipartite lattices at half-filling. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-18 Ye-Hua Liu , Lei Wang

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

The notorious fermion sign problem, arising from fermion statistics, presents a fundamental obstacle to the numerical simulation of quantum many-body systems. Here, we introduce a framework that circumvents the sign problem in the studies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi-Xuan Li , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li

The sign problem is a key challenge in computational physics, encapsulating our inability to properly understand many important quantum many-body phenomena in physics, chemistry and the material sciences. Despite its centrality, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Lalit Gupta , Itay Hen

Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful tool for elucidating the properties of complex systems across many disciplines. Not requiring any a priori knowledge, they are particularly well suited for exploring new phenomena. However, when…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Mauro Iazzi , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Matthias Troyer

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

Quantum Monte Carlo and quantum simulation are both important tools for understanding quantum many-body systems. As a classical algorithm, quantum Monte Carlo suffers from the sign problem, preventing its application to most fermion systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Yongdan Yang , Bing-Nan Lu , Ying Li

Current nonequilibrium Monte Carlo methods suffer from a dynamical sign problem that makes simulating real-time dynamics for long times exponentially hard. We propose a new `Inchworm Algorithm', based on iteratively reusing information…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-25 Guy Cohen , Emanuel Gull , David. R. Reichman , Andrew J. Millis

We perform the real-time lattice simulation of an open quantum system, which is based on the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral representation of the Lindblad formalism. Although the real-time simulation generally suffers from the sign…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-07-26 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Arata Yamamoto

We point out that Monte Carlo simulations of theories with severe sign problems can be profitably performed over manifolds in complex space different from the one with fixed imaginary part of the action. We describe a family of such…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-03-22 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Gregory W. Ridgway , Neill C. Warrington

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

We give a brief discussion of the recently developed Constrained-Path Monte Carlo Method. This method is a quantum Monte Carlo technique that eliminates the fermion sign problem plaguing simulations of systems of interacting electrons. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Gubernatis , M. Guerrero
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