Addressing general measurements in quantum Monte Carlo

Wang, Zhiyan; Liu, Zenan; Mao, Bin-Bin; Wang, Zhe; Yan, Zheng

Addressing general measurements in quantum Monte Carlo

Dec 2, 2024

18 pages

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2412.01384 [cond-mat.str-el]

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Among present quantum many-body computational methods, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is one of the most promising approaches for dealing with large-scale complex systems. It has played an extremely important role in understanding quantum many-body physics. However, two dark clouds, namely the sign problem and general measurement issues, have seriously hampered its scope of application. We propose a universal scheme to tackle the problems of general measurement. The target observables are expressed as the ratio of two types of partition functions

\langle \mathrm{O} \rangle=\bar{Z}/Z

, where

\bar{Z}=\mathrm{tr} (\mathrm{Oe^{-\beta H}})

and

Z=\mathrm{tr} (\mathrm{e^{-\beta H}})

. These two partition functions can be estimated separately within the reweight-annealing frame, and then be connected by an easily solvable reference point. We have successfully applied this scheme to XXZ model and transverse field Ising model, from 1D to 2D systems, from two-body to multi-body correlations and even non-local disorder operators, and from equal-time to imaginary-time correlations. The reweighting path is not limited to physical parameters, but also works for space and time. Essentially, this scheme solves the long-standing problem of calculating the overlap between different distribution functions in mathematical statistics, which can be widely used in statistical problems, such as quantum many-body computation, big data and machine learning.

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