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We present a universal parameter-free quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm designed to simulate arbitrary spin-$1/2$ Hamiltonians. To ensure the convergence of the Markov chain to equilibrium for every conceivable case, we devise a clear and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lev Barash , Arman Babakhani , Itay Hen

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

The triangular lattice antiferromagnet with $S=1/2$ spins and nearest neighbor interactions is known to have long-range antiferromagnetic order, with nearest-neighbor spins at an angle of 120 degrees. Numerical studies of quantum phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Leyna Shackleton , Subir Sachdev

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods can very accurately compute ground state properties of quantum systems. We applied these methods to a system of boson hard spheres to get exact, infinite system size results for the ground state at several…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Mark Dewing

A unique feature of the hybrid quantum Monte Carlo (HQMC) method is the potential to simulate negative sign free lattice fermion models with subcubic scaling in system size. Here we will revisit the algorithm for various models. We will…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-09 Stefan Beyl , Florian Goth , Fakher F. Assaad

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, while being efficient for bosons, suffer from the "negative sign problem'' when applied to fermions - causing an exponential increase of the computing time with the number of particles. A polynomial time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Troyer , Uwe-Jens Wiese

Monte Carlo simulations are useful tools for modeling quantum systems, but in some cases they suffer from a sign problem, leading to an exponential slow down in their convergence to a value. While solving the sign problem is generically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 T. C. Mooney , Jacob Bringewatt , Neill C. Warrington , Lucas T. Brady

We develop a strong-coupling perturbation scheme for a generic Hubbard model around a half-filled particle-hole-symmetric reference system, which is free from the fermionic sign problem. The approach is based on the lattice determinantal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Sergei Iskakov , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Alexander I. Lichtenstein

We introduce the adiabatic quantum Monte Carlo (AQMC) method, where we gradually crank up the interaction strength, as an amelioration of the sign problem. It is motivated by the adiabatic theorem and will approach the true ground-state if…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-18 Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi , Amir-Reza Negari , Amin Moharramipour , Abolhassan Vaezi

One bottleneck of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation of strongly correlated electron systems lies at the scaling relation of computational complexity with respect to the system sizes. For generic lattice models of interacting fermions,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Zi Hong Liu , Xiao Yan Xu , Yang Qi , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

In lattice field theory, the interactions of elementary particles can be computed via high-dimensional integrals. Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods based on importance sampling are normally efficient to solve most of these integrals.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-18 Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Hernan Leövey , Julia Volmer

We present a hybrid quantum-classical Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) algorithm for estimating the excited states of the nuclear shell model. The conventional GFMC method, widely used to find the ground state of a quantum many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yongdan Yang , Ruyu Yang , Xiaosi Xu

Systems of correlated quantum matter can be a steep challenge to any would-be method of solution. Matrix-product state (MPS)-based methods can describe 1D systems quasiexactly, but often struggle to retain sufficient bipartite entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-04 Gunnar Bollmark , Sam Mardazad , Johannes S. Hofmann , Adrian Kantian

Ab-initio Monte Carlo simulations of strongly-interacting fermionic systems are plagued by the fermion sign problem, making the non-perturbative study of many interesting regimes of dense quantum matter, or of theories of odd numbers of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-05 Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman

The Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) method provides accurate solutions to the nuclear many-body problem and predicts properties of light nuclei starting from realistic two- and three-body interactions. Controlling the GFMC fermion-sign…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-07 Gurtej Kanwar , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco , Michael Wagman

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have received considerable attention over the last decades due to their great promise for providing a direct solution to the many-body Schrodinger equation in electronic systems. Thanks to their low scaling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 M. A. Morales , J. McMinis , B. K. Clark , J. Kim , G. Scuseria

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations provide one of the more powerful and versatile numerical approaches to condensed matter systems. However, their application to frustrated quantum spin models, in all relevant temperature regimes, is hamstrung…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-20 Stefan Wessel , B. Normand , Frédéric Mila , Andreas Honecker

While first order perturbation theory is routinely used in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations, higher-order terms present significant numerical challenges. We present a new approach for computing perturbative corrections in projection…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-16 Bing-Nan Lu , Ning Li , Serdar Elhatisari , Yuan-Zhuo Ma , Dean Lee , Ulf-G. Meißner

Quantum Monte Carlo method is applied to fractional quantum Hall systems. The use of the linear programming method enables us to avoid the negative-sign problem in the Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The formulation of this method and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sei Suzuki , Tatsuya Nakajima

We investigate the sign problem for full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC), a stochastic algorithm for finding the ground state solution of the Schr\"odinger equation with substantially reduced computational cost…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 James J. Shepherd , Gustavo E. Scuseria , James S. Spencer