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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

We present a numerically exact Inchworm Monte Carlo method for equilibrium multiorbital quantum impurity problems with general interactions and hybridizations. We show that the method, originally developed to overcome the dynamical sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-25 Eitan Eidelstein , Emanuel Gull , Guy Cohen

Monte Carlo calculations in the framework of lattice field theory provide non-perturbative access to the equilibrium physics of quantum fields. When applied to certain fermionic systems, or to the calculation of out-of-equilibrium physics,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-06-23 Scott Lawrence

We present a new approach for Monte Carlo simulations of lattice quantum spin systems which is able to eliminate the negative sign problem. Its complexity is linear in the volume of the lattice. Its efficiency is tested on a simple…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Galli

The sign problem is a notorious problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo simulations of a system with the partition function whose integrand is not real positive. The basic idea of the factorization method applied on such a system is to control…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-14 Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Takehiro Azuma , Jun Nishimura

This paper presents a method for alleviating sign problems in lattice path integrals, including those associated with finite fermion density in relativistic systems. The method makes use of information gained from some systematic expansion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-11 Scott Lawrence

Quantum Monte Carlo method is applied to fractional quantum Hall systems. The use of the linear programming method enables us to avoid the negative-sign problem in the Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The formulation of this method and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sei Suzuki , Tatsuya Nakajima

We introduce the feedforward neural network to attack the sign problem via the path optimization method. The variables of integration is complexified and the integration path is optimized in the complexified space by minimizing the cost…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-06 Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa , Akira Ohnishi

In this talk we show how the sign problem, occurring in dynamical simulations of random matrices at nonzero chemical potential, can be avoided by judiciously combining matrices into subsets. One can prove that these subsets have real and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-22 Jacques C. R. Bloch

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

We propose a path optimization method (POM) to evade the sign problem in the Monte-Carlo calculations for complex actions. Among many approaches to the sign problem, the Lefschetz-thimble path-integral method and the complex Langevin method…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-11-05 Akira Ohnishi , Yuto Mori , Kouji Kashiwa

It is sometimes speculated that the sign problem that afflicts many quantum field theories might be reduced or even eliminated by choosing an alternative domain of integration within a complexified extension of the path integral (in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-07-14 AuroraScience Collaboration , Marco Cristoforetti , Francesco Di Renzo , Luigi Scorzato

The QCD at finite density is not well understood yet, where standard Monte Carlo simulation suffers from the sign problem. In order to overcome the sign problem, the method of Lefschetz thimble has been explored. Basically, the original…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Shoichiro Tsutsui , Takahiro M. Doi

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

When one tries to simulate quantum spin systems by the Monte Carlo method, often the 'minus-sign problem' is encountered. In such a case, an application of probabilistic methods is not possible. In this paper the method has been proposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacek Wojtkiewicz

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 introduce a quantum Monte Carlo method to simulate the reversible dynamics of correlated many-body systems. Our method is based on the Laplace transform of the time-evolution operator which, as opposed to most quantum Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Romain Chessex , Massimo Borrelli , Hans Christian Öttinger

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

Nowadays the term 'sign problem' is used to identify two different problems. The ideas to overcome the first type of the 'sign problem' of strongly oscillating complex valued imtegrand in the Feynman path integrals comes from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Vladimir Filinov , Alexander Larkin

Quantum annealing is a generic solver of the optimization problem that uses fictitious quantum fluctuation. Its simulation in classical computing is often performed using the quantum Monte Carlo simulation via the Suzuki--Trotter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Masayuki Ohzeki