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The fermion sign problem remains the primary obstacle in simulating the thermodynamic properties of various fermionic systems. In this work, we present a sign-blocking method to mitigate the numerical instability inherent in the sign…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

We develop an algorithm for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations with periodic boundary conditions (PBC) that scales quadratically with the number of particles. Path integral methods are a powerful tool to simulate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jacob Higer , Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Barak Hirshberg

We consider Dirac fermion confined in harmonic potential and submitted to a constant magnetic field. The corresponding solutions of the energy spectrum are obtained by using the path integral techniques. For this, we begin by establishing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-06 Abdeldjalil Merdaci , Ahmed Jellal , Lyazid Chetouani

We derive an exact path integral formulation for the partition function for the Ising model using a mapping between spins and poles of a Laurent expansion for a field on the complex plane. The advantage in using this formulation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-23 Francesco Caravelli

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

The partition function for a system of non-interacting $N-$particles can be found by summing over all the states of the system. The classical partition function for an ideal gas differs from Bosonic or Fermionic partition function in the…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-04-06 Sushil K. Singh , Savinder Kaur

Path integral-based simulation methodologies play a crucial role for the investigation of nuclear quantum effects by means of computer simulations. However, these techniques are significantly more demanding than corresponding classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 Karsten Kreis , Kurt Kremer , Raffaello Potestio , Mark E. Tuckerman

We review a recently proposed approach to the problem of alternating signs for fermionic many body Monte Carlo simulations in finite temperature simulations. We derive an estimate for fermion wandering lengths and introduce the notion of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Dean Lee

We study the Jellium model of Wigner at finite, non-zero, temperature through a computer simulation using the canonical path integral worm algorithm where we successfully implemented the fixed-nodes free particles restriction necessary to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-14 Riccardo Fantoni

We derive two path integral estimators for the derivative of the quantum mechanical potential of mean force (PMF), which may be numerically integrated to yield the PMF. For the first estimator, we perform the differentiation on the exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Kevin P. Bishop , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

An approximate treatment of exchange in finite-temperature path integral Monte Carlo simulations for fermions has been proposed. In this method, some of the fine details of density matrix due to permutations have been smoothed over or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Y. Sun

In this work we study a system of two distinguishable fermions in a 1D harmonic potential. This system has the exceptional property that there is an analytic solution for arbitrary values of the interparticle interaction. We tune the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-16 G. Zürn , F. Serwane , T. Lompe , A. N. Wenz , M. G. Ries , J. E. Bohn , S. Jochim

We use the path integral approach to a two-dimensional noncommutative harmonic oscillator to derive the partition function of the system at finite temperature. It is shown that the result based on the Lagrangian formulation of the problem,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-02 A. Jahan

We present a method that offers perspectives to perform fully antisymmetrized simulations for inhomogeneous bulk fermion matter. The technique bears resemblance to classical periodic boundary conditions, using localized single-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-28 Klaas Vantournhout , Natalie Jachowicz , Jan Ryckebusch

A numerical implementation scheme is presented for the recently developed many-body diffusion approach for identical particles, in the case of harmonic potentials. The procedure is free of the sign problem, by the introduction of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Luczak , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese , L. F. Lemmens

The key problem of statistical physics standing over one hundred years is how to exactly calculate the partition function (or free energy) of many-body interaction systems, which severely hinders application of the theory for realistic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-26 Bo-Yuan Ning , Le-Cheng Gong , Tsu-Chien Weng , Xi-Jing Ning

New formulas are given for the grand partition function of paraboson systems of order p with n orbitals and parafermion systems of order p with m orbitals. These formulas allow the computation of statistical and thermodynamic functions for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-09 N. I. Stoilova , J. Van der Jeugt

We expand iterative numerically-exact influence functional path-integral tools and present a method capable of following the nonequilibrium time evolution of subsystems coupled to multiple bosonic and fermionic reservoirs simultaneously.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lena Simine , Dvira Segal

The boom of semiconductor quantum computing platforms created a demand for computer-aided design and fabrication of quantum devices. Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) can have an important role in this effort because it intrinsically…

We study the approximability of computing the partition functions of two-state spin systems. The problem is parameterized by a $2\times 2$ symmetric matrix. Previous results on this problem were restricted either to the case where the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yumou Fei , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Pinyan Lu
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