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We propose a new algorithm which works effectively in global updates in Monte Carlo study. We apply it to the quantum spin chain with next-nearest-neighbor interactions. We observe that Monte Carlo results are in excellent agreement with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-01 Tomo Munehisa , Yasuko Munehisa

We demonstrate the applicability of a recently proposed multiscale thermalization algorithm to two-color quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with two mass-degenerate fermion flavors. The algorithm involves refining an ensemble of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-06 William Detmold , Michael G. Endres

We develop a GPU-accelerated hybrid quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm to solve the fundamental yet difficult problem of $U(1)$ gauge field coupled to fermions, which gives rise to a $U(1)$ Dirac spin liquid state under the description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Kexin Feng , Chuang Chen , Zi Yang Meng

This paper introduces a new Monte Carlo algorithm to invert large matrices. It is based on simultaneous coupled draws from two random vectors whose covariance is the required inverse. It can be considered a generalization of a previously…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 L. A. Garcia-Cortes , C. Cabrillo

Ab-initio Monte Carlo simulations of strongly-interacting fermionic systems are plagued by the fermion sign problem, making the non-perturbative study of many interesting regimes of dense quantum matter, or of theories of odd numbers of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-05 Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman

Recently, the Hamilton Monte Carlo (HMC) has become widespread as one of the more reliable approaches to efficient sample generation processes. However, HMC is difficult to sample in a multimodal posterior distribution because the HMC chain…

Computation · Statistics 2020-06-22 Jonghyun Yun , Minsuk Shin , Ick Hoon Jin , Faming Liang

For important classes of many-fermion problems, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods allow exact calculations of ground-state and finite-temperature properties, without the sign problem. The list spans condensed matter, nuclear physics, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We report on our study of the Riemannian Manifold HMC (RMHMC) algorithm with the mass term for the gauge momenta replaced by rational functions of the gauge covariant Laplace operator. A comparison of HMC and RMHMC on a 2+1+1 flavor…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-25 Chulwoo Jung , Norman H. Christ

In this work, we introduce three algorithmic improvements to reduce the cost and improve the scaling of orbital space variational Monte Carlo (VMC). First, we show that by appropriately screening the one- and two-electron integrals of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Iliya Sabzevari , Sandeep Sharma

The main purpose of this paper is to facilitate the communication between the Analytic, Probabilistic and Algorithmic communities. We present a proof of convergence of the Hamiltonian (Hybrid) Monte Carlo algorithm from the point of view of…

Computation · Statistics 2021-02-05 Soumyadip Ghosh , Yingdong Lu , Tomasz Nowicki

A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo Bedaque

One of the many remarkable properties of graphene is that in the low energy limit the dynamics of its electrons can be effectively described by the massless Dirac equation. This has prompted investigations of graphene based on the lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-04-25 Richard Brower , Claudio Rebbi , David Schaich

We suggest and implement a new Monte Carlo strategy for correlated models involving fermions strongly coupled to classical degrees of freedom, with accurate handling of quenched disorder as well. Current methods iteratively diagonalise the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjeev Kumar , Pinaki Majumdar

In recent years, the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm has been found to work more efficiently compared to other popular Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods (such as random walk Metropolis-Hastings) in generating samples from a…

Computation · Statistics 2014-02-18 Andrew L. Beam , Sujit K. Ghosh , Jon Doyle

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is an invaluable means of inference with complicated models, and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, in particular Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC), has demonstrated impressive success in many…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-02 M. J. Betancourt

We discuss the adaptation of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm to overlap fermions. We derive a method which can be used to account for the delta function in the fermionic force caused by the differential of the sign function. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 Nigel Cundy

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit unique properties and hold significant promise for diverse applications, yet their dynamical simulation poses a particular challenge due to intrinsic openness and non-unitary evolution. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiaogang Li , Kecheng Liu , Qiming Ding

Traditionally, the field of computational Bayesian statistics has been divided into two main subfields: variational methods and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). In recent years, however, several methods have been proposed based on combining…

Computation · Statistics 2017-04-19 Cheng Zhang , Babak Shahbaba , Hongkai Zhao

We propose a modification of the Hybrid-Monte-Carlo algorithm that allows for a larger step-size of the integration scheme at constant acceptance rate. The key ingredient is that the pseudo-fermion action is split into two parts. We test…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Hasenbusch

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a Markov chain algorithm for sampling from a high-dimensional distribution with density $e^{-f(x)}$, given access to the gradient of $f$. A particular case of interest is that of a $d$-dimensional Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-27 Simon Apers , Sander Gribling , Dániel Szilágyi