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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

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

The path integral formulation of quantum mechanical problems including fermions is often affected by a severe numerical sign problem. We show how such a sign problem can be alleviated by a judiciously chosen constant imaginary offset to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-23 Christoph Gäntgen , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Marcel Rodekamp

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of quantum many body systems are plagued by the Fermion sign problem. The computational complexity of simulating Fermions scales exponentially in the projection time $\beta$ and system size. The sign problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-02 Ryan Levy , Bryan K. Clark

Numerical simulations of numerous quantum systems suffer from the notorious sign problem. Important examples include QCD and other field theories at non-zero chemical potential, at non-zero vacuum angle, or with an odd number of flavors, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Cox , C. Gattringer , K. Holland , B. Scarlet , U. -J. Wiese

In this work we solve the sign problem of a frustrated quantum impurity model consisting of three quantum spin-half chains interacting through an anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg interaction at one end. We first map the model into a repulsive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-03 Connor T. Hann , Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

For strongly quantum-degenerate systems at finite temperatures, the fermion sign problem remains the major obstacle to first-principles simulations. In this work, we apply the recently proposed pseudo-fermion method - designed to overcome…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong , Tommaso Morresi , Hongwei Xiong

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

We present a solution to the sign problem in a class of particle-hole symmetric Hamiltonian lattice fermion models on bipartite lattices using the idea of fermion bags. The solution remains valid when the particle-hole symmetry is broken…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-03 Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Many fascinating systems suffer from a severe (complex action) sign problem preventing us from calculating them with Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations. One promising method to alleviate the sign problem is the transformation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-18 Marcel Rodekamp , Christoph Gäntgen

As an intrinsically unbiased method, the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method is of unique importance in simulating interacting quantum systems. Although the QMC method often suffers from the notorious sign problem, the sign problem of quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-03 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shi-Xin Zhang , Hong Yao

The notorious fermion sign problem, arising from fermion statistics, presents a fundamental obstacle to the numerical simulation of quantum many-body systems. Here, we introduce a framework that circumvents the sign problem in the studies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi-Xuan Li , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li

Auxiliary field Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of interacting fermions require sampling over a Hubbard-Stratonovich field $h$ introduced to decouple the interactions. The weight for a given configuration involves the products of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-19 S. Tarat , Bo Xiao , R. Mondaini , R. T. Scalettar

A possible method to solve the sign problem is developed by modifying the original theory. Considering several modifications of the partition function, the observable in the original theory is reconstructed from the identity connecting the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-11-30 Takahiro M. Doi , Shoichiro Tsutsui

We propose a new approach to the fermion sign problem in systems where there is a coupling $U$ such that when it is infinite the fermions are paired into bosons and there is no fermion permutation sign to worry about. We argue that as $U$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Quantum simulations are a powerful tool for exploring strongly correlated many-body phenomena. Yet, their reach is limited by the fermion sign problem, which causes configuration weights to become negative, compromising statistical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Ryan Larson , Rubem Mondaini , Richard T. Scalettar

We show that solutions to fermion sign problems in the CT-INT formulation can be extended to systems involving fermions interacting with dynamical quantum spins. While these sign problems seem unsolvable in the auxiliary field approach,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-04 Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Building on recent solutions of the fermion sign problem for specific models we present two continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo methods for efficient simulation of mass-imbalanced Hubbard models on bipartite lattices at half-filling. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-18 Ye-Hua Liu , Lei Wang

In this work, within the framework of path integral Monte Carlo, we construct a pseudo-fermion propagator by replacing the original fermionic determinant with its absolute value. This modified propagator defines an auxiliary system free…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

We present a general strategy to solve the notorious fermion sign problem using cluster algorithms. The method applies to various systems in the Hubbard model family as well as to relativistic fermions. Here it is illustrated for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-11 Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Uwe-Jens Wiese
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