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Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are the gold standard for studying equilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems -- their phase transitions, ground and thermal state properties. However, in many interesting situations QMC methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Dominik Hangleiter , Ingo Roth , Daniel Nagaj , Jens Eisert

The "sign problem" (SP) is the fundamental limitation to simulations of strongly correlated materials in condensed matter physics, solving quantum chromodynamics at finite baryon density, and computational studies of nuclear matter. As a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-09 Rubem Mondaini , Sabyasachi Tarat , Richard T. Scalettar

A method is proposed to handle the sign problem in the simulation of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures. In general, this new approach, which is based on renormalisation blocking, is shown to yield statistical errors…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 J. F. Markham , T. D. Kieu

This article provides an introduction to the ideas behind the multilevel blocking (MLB) approach to the fermion sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations, and also gives a detailed discussion of MLB results for quantum dots. MLB…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 R. Egger , C. H. Mak

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

We present a quantum Monte Carlo method which allows calculations on many-fermion systems at finite temperatures without any sign decay. This enables simulations of the grand-canonical ensemble at large system sizes and low temperatures.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Shiwei Zhang

The notorious sign problem severely limits the applicability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, as statistical errors grow exponentially with system size and inverse temperature. A recent proposal of a quantum-computing stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Kwai-Kong Ng , Min-Fong Yang

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

We study the sign problem of the fermion determinant at nonzero baryon chemical potential. For this purpose we apply a simple model derived from Quantum Chromodynamics, in the limit of large chemical potential and mass. For SU(2) color,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshimasa Hidaka

We present a whole series of novel methods to alleviate the sign problem of the Fermionic Shadow Wave Function in the context of Variational Monte Carlo. The effectiveness of our new techniques is demonstrated on the example of liquid 3He.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Francesco Calcavecchia , Francesco Pederiva , Malvin H. Kalos , Thomas D. Kühne

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

We present a guiding principle for designing fermionic Hamiltonians and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods that are free from the infamous sign problem by exploiting the Lie groups and Lie algebras that appear naturally in the Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-23 Lei Wang , Ye-Hua Liu , Mauro Iazzi , Matthias Troyer , Gergely Harcos

Quantum Monte Carlo is one of the most powerful numerical tools for studying nonpeturbative properties of quantum many-body systems. However, its application to real-time problems is limited since the complex and highly-oscillating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Tomoya Hayata

We solve the sign problem in a particle-hole symmetric spin-polarized fermion model on bipartite lattices using the idea of fermion bags. The solution can be extended to a class of models at half filling but without particle-hole symmetry.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-19 Emilie Fulton Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

We study the sign problem in the Hubbard model on the hexagonal lattice away from half-filling using the Lefschetz thimbles method. We identify the saddle points, reduce their amount, and perform quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-13 Maksim Ulybyshev , Christopher Winterowd , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are sophisticated numerical techniques for simulating interacting quantum systems. In some cases, however, they suffer from the notorious "sign problem" and become too inefficient to be useful. A recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-16 K. S. D. Beach , Matthieu Mambrini , Fabien Alet

The Fermi sign structure plays a crucial role for a Landau's Fermi liquid. In this work, we identify the exact sign structure for the bipartite Hubbard model at an arbitrary strength of the on-site Coulomb repulsion $U$. This general sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-17 Long Zhang , Zheng-Yu Weng

We present a new Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating quantum spin systems which is able to suppress the negative sign problem. This algorithm has only a linear complexity in the lattice size used for the simulation. A general description…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Galli

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

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