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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 study the two dimensional lattice Thirring model in the presence of a fermion chemical po- tential. Our model is asymptotically free, contains massive fermions that mimic a baryon and light bosons that mimic pions. Hence it is a useful…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-03-14 Venkitesh Ayyar , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Jarno Rantaharju

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

Accurate thermodynamic simulations of correlated fermions using path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) methods are of paramount importance for many applications such as the description of ultracold atoms, electrons in quantum dots, and warm-dense…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tobias Dornheim , Michele Invernizzi , Jan Vorberger , Barak Hirshberg

We simulate lattice QCD at finite quark-number chemical potential to study nuclear matter, using the complex Langevin equation (CLE). The CLE is used because the fermion determinant is complex so that standard methods relying on importance…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut

We apply the path optimization method to a QCD effective model with the Polyakov loop at finite density to circumvent the model sign problem. The Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model is employed as the typical QCD effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Kouji Kashiwa , Yuto Mori , Akira Ohnishi

QCD at non-zero chemical potential ($\mu$) for quark number has a complex fermion determinant and thus standard simulation methods for lattice QCD cannot be applied. We therefore simulate this theory using the Complex-Langevin algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-10-22 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut

Reliable simulations of correlated quantum systems, including high-temperature superconductors and frustrated magnets, are increasingly desired nowadays to further understanding of essential features in such systems. Quantum Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-28 Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

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

At imaginary values of the quark chemical potential $\mu$, Quantum Chromodynamics shows an interesting phase structure due to an exact center, or Roberge-Weiss (RW), symmetry. This can be used to constrain QCD at real $\mu$, where the sign…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-05-14 Owe Philipsen , Christopher Pinke

Fluctuations in the vicinity of a phase transition are important but neglected in mean-field theory. In order to assess the influence of such fluctuations on the critical endpoint and the size of the critical region in the QCD phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-14 Bernd-Jochen Schaefer

The mystery of the infamous sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations mightily restricts applications of the method in fermionic and frustrated systems. A recent work [Science 375, 418 (2022)] made a remarkable breakthrough in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-27 Nvsen Ma , Jun-Song Sun , Gaopei Pan , Chen Cheng , Zheng Yan

The path optimization method is applied to a QCD effective model with the Polyakov loop and the repulsive vector-type interaction at finite temperature and density to circumvent the model sign problem. We show how the path optimization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-18 Kouji Kashiwa , Yuto Mori , Akira Ohnishi

Lattice field theory with the $\theta$ term suffers from the sign problem. The sign problem appears as flattening of the free energy. As an alternative to the conventional method, the Fourier transform method (FTM), we apply the maximum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 Masahiro Imachi , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama

Simulations of full QCD at nonzero baryon density using light quark masses are presented. The sign problem is evaded by the usage of the complex Langevin equation. The simulations are stabilized by the gauge cooling procedure for small…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-10-24 Denes Sexty

A numerical method is presented for reproducing fermionic quantum gas microscope experiments in equilibrium. By employing nested componentwise direct sampling of fermion pseudo-density matrices, as they arise naturally in determinantal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-31 Stephan Humeniuk , Yuan Wan

Mean-field molecular dynamics based on path integrals is used to approximate canonical quantum observables for particle systems consisting of nuclei and electrons. A computational bottleneck is the sampling from the Gibbs density of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Xin Huang , Petr Plechac , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy

We show how the prescription of taking the absolute value of the fermion determinant in the integration measure of QCD at finite density, forgetting its phase, reproduces the correct thermodynamical limit. This prescription, which applies…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Vicente Azcoiti

The sign problem of relativistic field theories at finite fermion chemical potential has been approached by deforming the domain of integration into complex field space. We present a method for selecting a deformed manifold of integration…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-17 Scott Lawrence

We present Monte Carlo calculations of the thermodynamics of the (2+1) dimensional Thirring model at finite density. We bypass the sign problem by deforming the domain of integration of the path integral into complex space in such a way as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-14 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo F. Bedaque , Henry Lamm , Scott Lawrence , Neill C. Warrington