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Diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach is applied to a problem of a single spin-down fermion resonantly interacting with the sea of ideal spin-up fermions. On one hand, we develop a generic, sign-problem tolerant, method of exact numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

The multilevel blocking algorithm recently proposed as a possible solution to the sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations has been extended to systems with long-ranged interactions along the Trotter direction. As an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Egger , L. Muehlbacher , C. H. Mak

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

To tackle the sign problem in the simulations of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures, we propose a new approach which yields statistical errors smaller than the crude Monte Carlo using absolute values of the original…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 T D Kieu , C J Griffin

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

We present a new approach for Monte Carlo simulations of lattice quantum spin systems which is able to eliminate the negative sign problem. Its complexity is linear in the volume of the lattice. Its efficiency is tested on a simple…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Galli

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 present a simple, robust and highly efficient method for optimizing all parameters of many-body wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, applicable to continuum systems and lattice models. Based on a strong zero-variance…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Umrigar , Julien Toulouse , Claudia Filippi , S. Sorella , R. G. Hennig

We introduce a method that combines the power of both the lattice Green function Monte Carlo (LGFMC) with the auxiliary field techniques (AFQMC), and allows us to compute exact ground state properties of the Hubbard model for U<~ 4t on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Sandro Sorella

The Fermi-Hubbard model is a key concept in condensed matter physics and provides crucial insights into electronic and magnetic properties of materials. Yet, the intricate nature of Fermi systems poses a barrier to answer important…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Tilman Esslinger

We apply constant imaginary offsets to the path integral for a reduction of the sign problem in the Hubbard model. These simple transformations enhance the quality of results from HMC calculations without compromising the speed of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-11 Christoph Gäntgen , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Marcel Rodekamp

Here we develop a new scheme of projective quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) simulation combining unbiased zero-temperature (projective) determinant QMC and variational Monte-Carlo based on Gutzwiller projection wave function, dubbed as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-08 Wei-Xuan Chang , Zi-Xiang Li

The sign problem is a notorious problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo simulations of a system with the partition function whose integrand is not real positive. The basic idea of the factorization method applied on such a system is to control…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-14 Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Takehiro Azuma , Jun Nishimura

The numerical sign problem is a major obstacle to the quantitative understanding of many important physical systems with first-principles calculations. Typical examples for such systems include finite-density QCD, strongly-correlated…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-05-03 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Yusuke Namekawa

We apply the formally exact Diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) method to probe the unprecedentedly low-temperature regime recently achieved in an ultracold-atom quantum simulation of the 2D Hubbard model [Xu et al., Nature 642, 909 (2025)].…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-01 Ben Currie , John Sturt , Evgeny Kozik

We propose a new projector quantum Monte-Carlo method to investigate the ground state of ultracold fermionic atoms modeled by a lattice Hamiltonian with on-site interaction. The many-body state is reconstructed from Slater determinants that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-26 Olivier Juillet

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations constitute nowadays one of the most powerful methods to study strongly correlated quantum systems, provided that no "sign problem" arises. However, many systems of interest, including highly frustrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Andreas Honecker , Lukas Weber , Philippe Corboz , Frédéric Mila , Stefan Wessel

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

In the fermion loop formulation the contributions to the partition function naturally separate into topological equivalence classes with a definite sign. This separation forms the basis for an efficient fermion simulation algorithm using a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-09-14 David Baumgartner , Urs Wenger

The fermionic Hubbard model (FHM)[1], despite its simple form, captures essential features of strongly correlated electron physics. Ultracold fermions in optical lattices[2, 3] provide a clean and well-controlled platform for simulating…