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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

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

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

Several studies have emphasized the impact of long-range Coulomb interactions in lattice fermions, yet conventional Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods face limitations due to their reliance on positive definite interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-09 Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi , Davoud Nasr Esfahani

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

Quantum simulators are engineered devices controllably designed to emulate complex and classically intractable quantum systems. A key challenge is to certify whether the simulator truly mimics the Hamiltonian of interest. This certification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Abolfazl Bayat , Benoit Voisin , Gilles Buchs , Joe Salfi , Sven Rogge , Sougato Bose

Although stoquastic Hamiltonians are known to be simulable via sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques, the non-stoquasticity of a Hamiltonian does not necessarily imply the existence of a QMC sign problem. We give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Itay Hen

The high level of control and precision achievable in current synthetic quantum matter setups has enabled first attempts at quantum-simulating various intriguing phenomena in condensed matter physics, including those probing thermalization…

In recent years, there is considerable experimental effort using cold atoms to study strongly correlated many-body systems. One class of phenomena of particularly interests is quantum critical (QC) phenomena. While prevalent in many…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Qi Zhou , Tin-Lun Ho

We study the phase structure of lattice QCD with heavy quarks at finite temperature and density by a histogram method. We determine the location of the critical point at which the first-order deconfining transition in the heavy-quark limit…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-17 H. Saito , S. Ejiri , S. Aoki , K. Kanaya , Y. Nakagawa , H. Ohno , K. Okuno , T. Umeda

It is sometimes speculated that the sign problem that afflicts many quantum field theories might be reduced or even eliminated by choosing an alternative domain of integration within a complexified extension of the path integral (in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-07-14 AuroraScience Collaboration , Marco Cristoforetti , Francesco Di Renzo , Luigi Scorzato

At nonzero quark chemical potential dynamical lattice simulations of QCD are hindered by the sign problem caused by the complex fermion determinant. The severity of the sign problem can be assessed by the average phase of the fermion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-05-27 Jacques Bloch , Tilo Wettig

Quantum embedding theories are promising approaches to investigate strongly-correlated electronic states of active regions of large-scale molecular or condensed systems. Notable examples are spin defects in semiconductors and insulators. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 He Ma , Nan Sheng , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

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

A conceptual difficulty in the foundations of quantum mechanics is the quantum measurement problem (QMP), essentially concerned with the apparent non-unitarity of the measurement process and the classicality of macroscopic systems. In an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Srikanth

Frustrated spin systems generically suffer from the negative sign problem inherent to Monte Carlo methods. Since the severity of this problem is formulation dependent, optimization strategies can be put forward. We introduce a phase pinning…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Toshihiro Sato , Fakher F. Assaad

Accessing the thermodynamic-limit properties of strongly correlated quantum matter requires simulations on very large lattices, a regime that remains challenging for numerical methods, especially in frustrated two-dimensional systems. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-04 Luciano Loris Viteritti , Riccardo Rende , Subir Sachdev , Giuseppe Carleo

Simulating the Hubbard model is of great interest to a wide range of applications within condensed matter physics, however its solution on classical computers remains challenging in dimensions larger than one. The relative simplicity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Antonios M. Alvertis , Abid Khan , Thomas Iadecola , Peter P. Orth , Norm Tubman

We generalize QCD at asymptotically large isospin chemical potential to an arbitrary even number of flavors. We also allow for small quark chemical potentials, which stress the coincident Fermi surfaces of the paired quarks and lead to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-15 Takuya Kanazawa , Tilo Wettig

Following our recent conjecture to model the phenomenona of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity by quantum symmetry groups, we discuss in the present note how to construct a workable scenario using this symmetry. In particular we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Sher Alam , M. O. Rahman , M. Ando , S. B. Mohamed , T. Yanagisawa