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A continuous-time path integral Quantum Monte Carlo method using the directed-loop algorithm is developed to simulate the Anderson single-impurity model in the occupation number basis. Although the method suffers from a sign problem at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaebeom Yoo , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Harold U. Baranger

Monte Carlo simulations are useful tools for modeling quantum systems, but in some cases they suffer from a sign problem, leading to an exponential slow down in their convergence to a value. While solving the sign problem is generically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 T. C. Mooney , Jacob Bringewatt , Neill C. Warrington , Lucas T. Brady

We introduce a Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method which efficiently simulates in a sign-problem-free way a broad class of frustrated $S=1/2$ models with competing antiferromagnetic interactions. Our scheme uses the basis of total spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-09 Fabien Alet , Kedar Damle , Sumiran Pujari

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a powerful tool for sampling from complex probability distributions. Despite its versatility, MCMC often suffers from strong autocorrelation and the negative sign problem, leading to slowing down the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-05 Synge Todo

We propose a mechanism for solving the `negative sign problem'---the inability to assign non-negative weights to quantum Monte Carlo configurations---for a toy model consisting of a frustrated triplet of spin-$1/2$ particles interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Itay Hen

We introduce a Monte Carlo scheme for sampling bold-line diagrammatic series specifying an unknown function in terms of itself. The range of convergence of this bold(-line) diagrammatic Monte Carlo (BMC) is significantly broader than that…

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

Monte Carlo sampling of any system may be analyzed in terms of an associated glass model -- a variant of the Random Energy Model -- with, whenever there is a sign problem, complex fields. This model has three types of phases (liquid, frozen…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-17 Gustavo During , Jorge Kurchan

A precise dynamical characterization of quantum impurity models with multiple interacting orbitals is challenging. In quantum Monte Carlo methods, this is embodied by sign problems. A dynamical sign problem makes it exponentially difficult…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Andre Erpenbeck , Thomas Blommel , Lei Zhang , Wei-Ting Lin , Guy Cohen , Emanuel Gull

We present a general technique for addressing sign problems that arise in Monte Carlo simulations of field theories. This method deforms the domain of the path integral to a manifold in complex field space that maximizes the average sign…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-06 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo Bedaque , Henry Lamm , Scott Lawrence

Sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation appears to be an extremely hard yet interesting problem. In this article, we present a pedagogical overview on the origin of the sign problem in various quantum Monte Carlo simulation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-27 Gaopei Pan , Zi Yang Meng

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

We propose new approach to numerical study of quantum spin systems. Our method is based on a fact that one can use any set of states for the path integral as long as it is complete. We apply our method to one-dimensional quantum spin system…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Tomo Munehisa , Yasuko Munehisa

The Hubbard model at finite chemical potential is a cornerstone for understanding doped correlated systems, but simulations are severely limited by the sign problem. In the auxiliary-field formulation, the spin basis mitigates the sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Dominic Schuh , Lena Funcke , Janik Kreit , Thomas Luu , Simran Singh

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

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

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 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 present novel Monte Carlo methods for treating the interacting shell model that allow exact calculations much larger than those heretofore possible. The two-body interaction is linearized by an auxiliary field; Monte Carlo evaluation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. W. Johnson , S. E. Koonin , G. H. Lang , W. E. Ormand

We introduce a novel method within the shell model Monte Carlo approach to calculate the ground-state energy of a finite-size system with an odd number of particles by using the asymptotic behavior of the imaginary-time single-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Abhishek Mukherjee , Y. Alhassid

The negative sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of cluster impurity problems is the major bottleneck in cluster dynamical mean field calculations. In this paper we systematically investigate the dependence of the sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 Hiroshi Shinaoka , Yusuke Nomura , Silke Biermann , Matthias Troyer , Philipp Werner