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Fermionic Monte Carlo calculations with continuous auxiliary fields often encounter infinite variance problem from fermionic observables. This issue renders the estimation of observables unreliable, even with an infinite number of samples.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-28 Hyunwoo Oh , Andrei Alexandru , Paulo F. Bedaque , Andrea Carosso

For important classes of many-fermion problems, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods allow exact calculations of ground-state and finite-temperature properties, without the sign problem. The list spans condensed matter, nuclear physics, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

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

We revisit the infinite variance problem in fermionic Monte Carlo simulations, which is widely encountered in areas ranging from condensed matter to nuclear and high-energy physics. The different algorithms, which we broadly refer to as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shiwei Zhang

In Monte Carlo calculations of expectation values in lattice quantum field theories, the stochastic variance of the sampling procedure that is used defines the precision of the calculation for a fixed number of samples. If the variance of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-07 Cagin Yunus , William Detmold

We propose a method to mitigate heavy-tailed distributions in fermion Quantum Monte Carlo simulations originating from zeros of the fermion determinant. In this case the second moment of the observables might be not well defined, and we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-05 Maksim Ulybyshev , Fakher Assaad

We introduce and compare three different Monte Carlo determinantal algorithms that allow one to compute dynamical quantities, such as the self-energy, of fermionic systems in their thermodynamic limit. We show that the most efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 Alice Moutenet , Wei Wu , Michel Ferrero

Bayesian inference for models that have an intractable partition function is known as a doubly intractable problem, where standard Monte Carlo methods are not applicable. The past decade has seen the development of auxiliary variable Monte…

Computation · Statistics 2017-10-13 Richard G. Everitt , Dennis Prangle , Philip Maybank , Mark Bell

Using a dual representation of lattice fermion models that is based on spin-charge transformation and fermionisation of the original description, I derive an algorithm for diagrammatic Monte Carlo simulation of strongly correlated systems.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-21 Johan Carlström

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 general approach to greatly increase at little cost the efficiency of Monte Carlo algorithms. To each observable to be computed we associate a renormalized observable (improved estimator) having the same average but a different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roland Assaraf , Michel Caffarel

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 introduce a numerical algorithm to stochastically sample the dual fermion perturbation series around the dynamical mean field theory, generating all topologies of two-particle interaction vertices. We show results in the weak and strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-07 Sergei Iskakov , Andrey E. Antipov , Emanuel Gull

Auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo methods for Hubbard models are generally based on a Hubbard-Stratonovitch transformation where the field couples to the z-component of the spin. This transformation breaks SU(2) spin invariance. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. F. Assaad

We propose a Monte Carlo method, which is a hybrid method of the quantum Monte Carlo method and variational Monte Carlo theory, to study the Hubbard model. The theory is based on the off-diagonal and the Gutzwiller type correlation factors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Takashi Yanagisawa , Soh Koike , Kunihiko Yamaji

Ground state properties of the Hubbard model on a two-dimensional square lattice are studied by the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method. Accurate results for energy, double occupancy, effective hopping, magnetization, and momentum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-10 Mingpu Qin , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

The Monte Carlo calculation of R\'enyi entanglement entropies $S^{}_n$ of interacting fermions suffers from a well-known signal-to-noise problem, even for a large number of situations in which the infamous sign problem is absent. A few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-28 Joaquín E. Drut , William J. Porter

Strongly-coupled fermionic systems can support a variety of low-energy phenomena, giving rise to collective condensation, symmetry breaking and a rich phase structure. We explore the potential of worldline Monte Carlo methods for analyzing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Gerald Dunne , Holger Gies , Klaus Klingmuller , Kurt Langfeld

We present a Monte Carlo algorithm that allows the simultaneous determination of a few extremal eigenpairs of a very large matrix without the need to compute the inner product of two vectors or store all the components of any one vector.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. E. Booth , J. E. Gubernatis

Exponential observables, formulated as $\log \langle e^{\hat{X}}\rangle$ where $\hat{X}$ is an extensive quantity, play a critical role in study of quantum many-body systems, examples of which include the free-energy and entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 Xu Zhang , Gaopei Pan , Bin-Bin Chen , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng
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