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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 introduce a robust numerical method for determining intersection numbers of Lefschetz thimbles in multivariable settings. Our approach employs the multiple shooting method to solve the upward flow equations from the saddle points to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-02 Yutaro Shoji , Katarina Trailović

We present a numerical discretisation of the coupled moment systems, previously introduced in Dahm and Helzel, which approximate the kinetic multi-scale model by Helzel and Tzavaras for sedimentation in suspensions of rod-like particles for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Sina Dahm , Jan Giesselmann , Christiane Helzel

We propose new approach to numerical study of quantum spin systems. Our method is based on a fact that one can use any set of states for the path integral as long as it is complete. We apply our method to one-dimensional quantum spin system…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Tomo Munehisa , Yasuko Munehisa

We present a novel strategy to strongly reduce the severity of the sign problem, using line integrals along paths of changing imaginary action. Highly oscillating regions along these paths cancel out, decreasing their contributions. As a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-10-18 Rasmus N. Larsen

Reconstructing a thermal model capable of efficiently simulating the behavior of a spacecraft from sparse and localized temperature measurements remains a challenging task. To address this, we introduce a physically-constrained calibration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Luca Sosta , Carlo Ciancarelli , Leonardo Marini , Stefano Pagani , Francesco Regazzoni , Nicola Parolini

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

We study the Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor model of liquid crystals subjected to an electric field and develop a fully discrete numerical scheme for its solution. The scheme uses a convex splitting of the bulk potential, and we introduce a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Max Hirsch , Franziska Weber

We study three possible ways to circumvent the sign problem in the O(3) nonlinear sigma model in 1+1 dimensions. We compare the results of the worm algorithm to complex Langevin and multiparameter reweighting. Using the worm algorithm, the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-03-22 Sandor D. Katz , Ferenc Niedermayer , Daniel Nogradi , Csaba Torok

The shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) method is a powerful method for calculating exactly (up to statistical errors) thermal observables and statistical properties of atomic nuclei. However, its application has been limited by a sign problem…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 Y. Alhassid , P. Fanto , C. Özen

We discuss the Fermion sign problem and, by examining a very general Hubbard-Stratonovich (HS) transformation, argue that the sign problem cannot be solved with such methods. We propose a different kind of transformation which, while not…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-11 Ghassan George Batrouni , Philippe de Forcrand

The main difficulty for path integral Monte Carlo studies of Fermi systems results from the requirement of antisymmetrization of the density matrix and is known in literature as the 'sign problem'. To overcome this issue the new numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 Alexander Larkin , Vladimir Filinov , Vladimir Fortov

Many research programs aiming to deal with the sign problem were proposed since the advent of lattice field theory. Several of these try to achieve this by exploiting properties of analytic functions. This is also the case for our study.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-07 Błażej Ruba , Jacek Wosiek

The Schwinger model is one of the simplest gauge theories. It is known that a topological term of the model leads to the infamous sign problem in the classical Monte Carlo method. In contrast to this, recently, quantum computing in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Kazuki Sakamoto , Hayata Morisaki , Junichi Haruna , Etsuko Itou , Keisuke Fujii , Kosuke Mitarai

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

Quantum many-body systems are challenging targets for computational physics due to their large degrees of freedom. The tensor networks, particularly Tensor Product States (TPS) and Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS), effectively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-15 Yuichi Motoyama , Tsuyoshi Okubo , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi , Satoshi Morita , Tatsumi Aoyama , Takeo Kato , Naoki Kawashima

For a class of tempered fractional terminal value problems of the Caputo type, we study the existence and uniqueness of the solution, analyse the continuous dependence on the given data and using a shooting method, we present and discuss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Luisa Morgado , Magda Rebelo

Trace estimators allow to approximate thermodynamic equilibrium observables with astonishing accuracy. A prominent representative is the finite-temperature Lanczos method (FTLM) which relies on a Krylov space expansion of the exponential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-07 H. Schlüter , F. Gayk , H. -J. Schmidt , A. Honecker , J. Schnack

Quantum computing shows substantial potential in accelerating simulations and alleviating memory bottlenecks in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), owing to its inherent properties of superposition and entanglement. The lattice Boltzmann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yang Xiao , Liming Yang , Chang Shu , Yinjie Du

We discuss two problems in complexified auxiliary fields in fermionic effective models, the auxiliary sign problem associated with the repulsive vector-field and the choice of the cut for the scalar field appearing from the logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa , Akira Ohnishi