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We use a variational Monte Carlo algorithm to solve the electronic structure of two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots in external magnetic field. We present accurate many-body wave functions for the system in various magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ari Harju

We show that solutions to fermion sign problems in the CT-INT formulation can be extended to systems involving fermions interacting with dynamical quantum spins. While these sign problems seem unsolvable in the auxiliary field approach,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-04 Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) based on fixed-node approximation has enjoyed significant developments in the past decades and become one of the go-to methods when accurate ground state energy of molecules and materials is needed. The remaining…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Weiluo Ren , Weizhong Fu , Xiaojie Wu , Ji Chen

Wave-function Monte Carlo methods are an important tool for simulating quantum systems, but the standard method cannot be used to simulate decoherence in continuously measured systems. Here we present a new Monte Carlo method for such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kurt Jacobs

We develop a formalism and present an algorithm for optimization of the trial wave-function used in fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) methods. We take advantage of a basic property of the walker configuration distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fernando A. Reboredo , Randolph Q. Hood , Paul R. C. Kent

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

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are the gold standard for studying equilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems -- their phase transitions, ground and thermal state properties. However, in many interesting situations QMC methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Dominik Hangleiter , Ingo Roth , Daniel Nagaj , Jens Eisert

We discuss finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo methods in the framework of the interacting nuclear shell model. The methods are based on a representation of the imaginary-time many-body propagator as a superposition of one-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Y. Alhassid

Ab-initio studies of strongly interacting bosonic and fermionic systems is greatly facilitated by efficient Monte Carlo algorithms. This article emphasizes this requirement, and outlines the ideas behind the construction of the cluster…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-29 Debasish Banerjee

We present a new Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating quantum spin systems which is able to suppress the negative sign problem. This algorithm has only a linear complexity in the lattice size used for the simulation. A general description…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Galli

Numerical simulations of numerous quantum systems suffer from the notorious sign problem. Important examples include QCD and other field theories at non-zero chemical potential, at non-zero vacuum angle, or with an odd number of flavors, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Cox , C. Gattringer , K. Holland , B. Scarlet , U. -J. Wiese

We derive many-body single- and multi-reference wave functions for quantum Monte Carlo of periodic systems with an anti-symmetric portion that explicitly integrates over the Brillouin zone of one-particle Bloch states. The wave functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-28 Lubos Mitas

Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is a powerful numerical technique to study many-body fermionic systems. In recent years, several classes of sign-free (SF) models have been discovered, where the notorious sign problem can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-21 Ori Grossman , Erez Berg

In this paper, we discover a new quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to solve the fermion sign problem in interacting fermion models by employing Majorana representation of complex fermions. We call it "Majorana QMC" (MQMC). Especially, MQMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Zi-Xiang Li , Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong Yao

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

On the base of the diffusion Monte-Carlo method we develop the method allowing to simulate the quantum systems with complex wave function. The method is exact and there are no approximations on the simulations of the module and the phase of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Abdullaev , M. Musakhanov , A. Nakamura

Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

This review summarizes recent developments in the study of fermionic quantum criticality, focusing on new progress in numerical methodologies, especially quantum Monte Carlo methods, and insights that emerged from recently large-scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-10 Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Hong Liu , Gaopei Pan , Yang Qi , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

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

There exist methods to reformulate in an exact way the many-body problem of interacting bosons in terms of the stochastic evolution of single particle wave functions. For one such reformulation, the so-called simple Fock scheme, we present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Iacopo Carusotto , Yvan Castin