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The quantum Monte Carlo algorithm is arguably one of the most powerful computational many-body methods, enabling accurate calculation of many properties in interacting quantum systems. In the presence of the so-called sign problem, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-23 Chia-Chen Chang , Miguel A. Morales

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

At low temperatures $T$ where $1/T=\beta\gg1$ the na\"ive implementation of determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) methods suffers from loss of precision and numerical instabilities when evaluating the fermion determinant. This instability…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Petar Sinilkov , Finn L. Temmen

We propose a new quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to compute fermion ground-state properties. The ground state is projected from an initial wavefunction by a branching random walk in an over-complete basis space of Slater determinants. By…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Shiwei Zhang , J. Carlson , J. E. Gubernatis

Due to the intrinsic complexity of the quantum many-body problem, quantum Monte Carlo algorithms and their corresponding Monte Carlo configurations can be defined in various ways. Configurations corresponding to few Feynman diagrams often…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-30 Alexander Kowalski , Andreas Hausoel , Markus Wallerberger , Patrik Gunacker , Giorgio Sangiovanni

We study cluster perturbation theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{84}, 522 (2000)] when auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo method is used for solving the cluster hamiltonian. As a case study, we calculate the spectral functions of the Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Fei Lin , Erik S. Sorensen , Catherine Kallin , A. John Berlinsky

In the framework of the hybrid quantum-classical variational cluster approach (VCA) to strongly correlated electron systems one of the goals of a quantum subroutine is to find single-particle correlation functions of lattice fermions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Gino Bishop , Dmitry Bagrets , Frank K. Wilhelm

Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

The Green's function has been an indispensable tool to study many-body systems that remain one of the biggest challenges in modern quantum physics for decades. The complicated calculation of Green's function impedes the research of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Jie Zhu , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo , Yong-Sheng Zhang

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

We discuss the Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method applied to dilute neutron matter at finite temperatures. We formulate the discrete Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation for the interaction with finite effective range which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 G. Wlazlowski , P. Magierski

We provide an extension to lattice systems of the reptation quantum Monte Carlo algorithm, originally devised for continuous Hamiltonians. For systems affected by the sign problem, a method to systematically improve upon the so-called…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-26 Giuseppe Carleo , Federico Becca , Saverio Moroni , Stefano Baroni

It has become increasingly feasible to use quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods to study correlated fermion systems for realistic Hamiltonians. We give a summary of these techniques targeted at researchers in the field of correlated electrons,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Lucas K. Wagner , David M. Ceperley

This review summarizes recent developments in the study of fermionic quantum criticality, focusing on new progress in numerical methodologies, especially quantum Monte Carlo methods, and insights that emerged from recently large-scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-10 Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Hong Liu , Gaopei Pan , Yang Qi , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

We present a framework of an auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for multi-orbital Hubbard models. Our formulation can be applied to a Hamiltonian which includes terms for on-site Coulomb interaction for both intra- and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Yukitoshi Motome , Masatoshi Imada

The `dynamic' Hubbard Hamiltonian describes interacting fermions on a lattice whose on-site repulsion is modulated by a coupling to a fluctuating bosonic field. We investigate one such model, introduced by Hirsch, using the determinant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Bouadim , M. Enjalran , F. Hebert , G. G. Batrouni , R. T. Scalettar

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations for fermions are becoming the standard to provide high quality reference data in systems that are too large to be investigated via quantum chemical approaches. DMC with the fixed-node approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Andrea Zen , Sandro Sorella , Michael J. Gillan , Angelos Michaelides , Dario Alfè

By precisely writing down the matrix element of the local Boltzmann operator, we have proposed a new path integral formulation for quantum field theory and developed a corresponding Monte Carlo algorithm. With current formula, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-08 J. Wang , W. Pan , D. Y. Sun

The entanglement entropy probing novel phases and phase transitions numerically via quantum Monte Carlo has made great achievements in large-scale interacting spin/boson systems. In contrast, the numerical exploration in interacting fermion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-15 Weilun Jiang , Gaopei Pan , Zhe Wang , Bin-Bin Mao , Heng Shen , Zheng Yan

Many phenomena of strongly correlated materials are encapsulated in the Fermi-Hubbard model whose thermodynamical properties can be computed from its grand canonical potential according to standard procedures. In general, there is no closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers , Frank K. Wilhelm