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The numerical simulation of dynamical phenomena in interacting quantum systems is a notoriously hard problem. Although a number of promising numerical methods exist, they often have limited applicability due to the growth of entanglement or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Stefano De Nicola

We show how the sign problem occurring in dynamical simulations of random matrices at nonzero chemical potential can be avoided by judiciously combining matrices into subsets. For each subset the sum of fermionic determinants is real and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-22 Jacques Bloch

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

We give a brief discussion of the recently developed Constrained-Path Monte Carlo Method. This method is a quantum Monte Carlo technique that eliminates the fermion sign problem plaguing simulations of systems of interacting electrons. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Gubernatis , M. Guerrero

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

We put forward a Monte Carlo algorithm that samples the Euclidean time operator growth dynamics at infinite temperature. Crucially, our approach is free from the numerical sign problem for a broad family of quantum many-body spin systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Ayush De , Umberto Borla , Xiangyu Cao , Snir Gazit

Monte Carlo studies involving real time dynamics are severely restricted by the sign problem that emerges from highly oscillatory phase of the path integral. In this letter, we present a new method to compute real time quantities on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-24 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Sohan Vartak , Neill C. Warrington

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

Measurement error mitigation (MEM) techniques are postprocessing strategies to counteract systematic read-out errors on quantum computers (QC). Currently used MEM strategies face a tradeoff: methods that scale well with the number of qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Siddarth Srinivasan , Bibek Pokharel , Gregory Quiroz , Byron Boots

There has been recent literature discussion on the origin and severity of the `sign problem' in full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) and its `initiator' adaptation (i-FCIQMC), methods of interest and potential because…

Aiming at evading the notorious sign problem in classical Monte-Carlo approaches to lattice quantum chromodynamics, we present an approach for quantum computing finite-temperature lattice gauge theories at non-zero density. Based on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-23 Zohreh Davoudi , Niklas Mueller , Connor Powers

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

We study the heavy-dense limit of QCD on the lattice with heavy quarks at high density. The effective three dimensional theory has a sign problem which is alleviated by sign optimization where the path integration domain is deformed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Gokce Basar , Joseph Marincel

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

Recently, the stochastic series expansion (SSE) has been proposed as a powerful MC-method, which allows simulations at low $T$ for quantum-spin systems. We show that the SSE allows to compute the magnetic conductance for various…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Kim Louis , Claudius Gros

A $\theta$ term in lattice field theory causes the sign problem in Monte Carlo simulations. This problem can be circumvented by Fourier-transforming the topological charge distribution $P(Q)$. This strategy, however, has a limitation,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 Masahiro Imachi , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama

We propose a new type of Monte Carlo approach in numerical studies of quantum systems. Introducing a probability function which determines whether a state in the vector space survives or not, we can evaluate expectation values of powers of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomo Munehisa , Yasuko Munehisa

Ground state properties of the Hubbard model are of fundamental importance to understand the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity in the high-T_c cuprates and other materials. One of the most powerful numerical methods for strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 Jodie Roberts , Beau A. Thompson , R. Torsten Clay

Quantum Monte Carlo is a powerful tool for studying quantum many-body physics, yet its efficacy is often curtailed by the notorious sign problem. In this Letter, we introduce a novel criterion for the "intrinsic" sign problem in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Donghae Seo , Minyoung You , Hee-Cheol Kim , Gil Young Cho

The growing field of quantum computing is based on the concept of a q-bit which is a delicate superposition of 0 and 1, requiring cryogenic temperatures for its physical realization along with challenging coherent coupling techniques for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Kerem Y. Camsari , Shuvro Chowdhury , Supriyo Datta