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In this paper, we discover a new quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to solve the fermion sign problem in interacting fermion models by employing Majorana representation of complex fermions. We call it "Majorana QMC" (MQMC). Especially, MQMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Zi-Xiang Li , Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong Yao

The fermion sign problem, the biggest obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, is completely solved in this paper. Here, we find a strategy, in which the contribution from those negative-weighted paths is thoroughly cancelled or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 J. Wang , D. Y. Sun

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

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

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

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

We explore a novel and straightforward solution to the sign problem that has plagued the Auxiliary-field Monte Carlo (AFMC) method applied to many-body systems for more than a decade. We present a solution to the sign problem that has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-08-23 G. Stoitcheva , W. E. Ormand , D. Neuhauser , D. J. Dean

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are one of the most important tools for studying interacting quantum many-body systems. The vast majority of QMC calculations in interacting fermion systems require a constraint to control the sign problem.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-08 Mingpu Qin , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

The sign problem is the fundamental limitation to quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the statistical mechanics of interacting fermions. Determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is one of the leading methods to study lattice models such as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 V. I. Iglovikov , E. Khatami , R. T. Scalettar

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

The sign problem is a major obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo simulations for many-body fermion systems. We examine this problem with a new perspective based on the Majorana reflection positivity and Majorana Kramers positivity. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-19 Z. C. Wei , Congjun Wu , Yi Li , Shiwei Zhang , T. Xiang

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

Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations constitute the gold standard for the estimation of a broad range of equilibrium properties of a host of interacting quantum many-body systems spanning conditions from ultracold atoms to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Paul Hamann , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

Quantum critical phenomena may be qualitatively different when massless Dirac fermions are present at criticality. Using our recently-discovered fermion-sign-free Majorana quantum Monte Carlo (MQMC) method introduced by us in Ref. [1], we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-11 Zi-Xiang Li , Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong Yao

Many-electron problems pose some of the greatest challenges in computational science, with important applications across many fields of modern science. Fermionic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are among the most powerful approaches to…

Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is a powerful numerical technique to study many-body fermionic systems. In recent years, several classes of sign-free (SF) models have been discovered, where the notorious sign problem can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-21 Ori Grossman , Erez Berg

For some models of interacting fermions the known solution to the notorious sign-problem in Monte Carlo (MC) simulations is to work with macroscopic fermionic determinants; the price, however, is a macroscopic scaling of the numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Evgueni Bourovski , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

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

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

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods represent a powerful family of computational techniques for tackling complex quantum many-body problems and performing calculations of stationary state properties. QMC is among the most accurate and…

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