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We introduce the Quantization Monte Carlo method to solve thermal radiative transport equations with possibly several collision regimes, ranging from few collisions to massive number of collisions per time unit. For each particle in a given…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Laetitia Laguzet , Gabriel Turinici

Quantum Tunneling is ubiquitous across different fields, from quantum chemical reactions, and magnetic materials to quantum simulators and quantum computers. While simulating the real-time quantum dynamics of tunneling is infeasible for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Guglielmo Mazzola , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Matthias Troyer

We consider the numerical analysis of the inchworm Monte Carlo method, which is proposed recently to tackle the numerical sign problem for open quantum systems. We focus on the growth of the numerical error with respect to the simulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Zhenning Cai , Jianfeng Lu , Siyao Yang

We study the real-time simulation of open quantum systems, where the system is modeled by a spin chain, with each spin associated with its own harmonic bath. Our method couples the inchworm method for the spin-boson model and the modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Geshuo Wang , Zhenning Cai

Inverse problems occur in a variety of parameter identification tasks in engineering. Such problems are challenging in practice, as they require repeated evaluation of computationally expensive forward models. We introduce a unifying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Simon Weissmann , Ashia Wilson , Jakob Zech

The sign problem is a major obstacle in quantum Monte Carlo simulations for many-body fermion systems. We examine this problem with a new perspective based on the Majorana reflection positivity and Majorana Kramers positivity. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-19 Z. C. Wei , Congjun Wu , Yi Li , Shiwei Zhang , T. Xiang

The Multilevel Monte Carlo method is an efficient variance reduction technique. It uses a sequence of coarse approximations to reduce the computational cost in uncertainty quantification applications. The method is nowadays often considered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Pieterjan Robbe , Dirk Nuyens , Stefan Vandewalle

Using a recently developed procedure - multiple wave packet decomposition - here we study the phase time formulation for tunneling/reflecting particles colliding with a potential barrier. To partially overcome the analytical difficulties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini

We present a general numerical approach to solve the equations for bubble wall profiles in models with more than one scalar field and CP violating phases. We discuss the algorithm as well as several problems associated with it and show some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. John

We address the problem of the minus sign sampling for two electron systems using the path integral approach. We show that this problem can be reexpressed as one of computing free energy differences and sampling the tails of statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Johan Runeson , Marco Nava , Michele Parrinello

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

It is believed that not all quantum systems can be simulated efficiently using classical computational resources. This notion is supported by the fact that in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations for a large number of important problems it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-14 Z. Ringel , D. L. Kovrizhin

The infamous sign problem leads to an exponential complexity in Monte Carlo simulations of generic many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, many phases of matter are known to admit a sign-problem-free representative, allowing efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-14 Omri Golan , Adam Smith , Zohar Ringel

The quantum transverse Ising model and its extensions play a critical role in various fields, such as statistical physics, quantum magnetism, quantum simulations, and mathematical physics. Although it does not suffer from the sign problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Wei Xu , Xue-Feng Zhang

A new Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) approach is proposed to investigate low-lying states of nuclei within the shell model. The formalism relies on a variational symmetry-restored wave-function to guide the underlying Brownian motion. Sign/phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-20 Jérémy Bonnard , Olivier Juillet

We present the first practical Monte Carlo calculations of the recently proposed Lefschetz thimble formulation of quantum field theories. Our results provide strong evidence that the numerical sign problem that afflicts Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-15 Marco Cristoforetti , Francesco Di Renzo , Abhishek Mukherjee , Luigi Scorzato

In lattice field theory, the interactions of elementary particles can be computed via high-dimensional integrals. Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods based on importance sampling are normally efficient to solve most of these integrals.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-18 Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Hernan Leövey , Julia Volmer

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. For each subset the sum of fermionic determinants is real and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-22 Jacques Bloch

We study the utility of a complex Langevin (CL) equation as an alternative for the Monte Carlo (MC) procedure in the evaluation of expectation values occurring in fermionic many-body problems. We find that a CL approach is natural in cases…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Chris Adami , Steven E. Koonin

The mathematical formulation of sign-changing problems involves a linear second-order partial differential equation in the divergence form, where the coefficient can assume positive and negative values in different subdomains. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Eric T. Chung , Patrick Ciarlet , Xingguang Jin , Changqing Ye