Title: Auxiliary field Monte Carlo for quantum many-body ground states
Abstract: Abstract This paper describes a different Q11C method for solving the Schrödinger equation, one unlike variational, diffusion, and Green’s function methods. It can be applied to many-body systems to produce solutions for ground states. For systems of fermions, antisymmetrization can be imposed to overcome the problem of node location, but the instability of the method is a serious shortcoming, so that the method as described is limited to treating relatively simple systems. Nevertheless, this auxiliary field quantum 1,fonte Carlo (AFMC) method was demonstrated to be successful for test cases reported in this paper, and in time has been improved to allow treatment of realistic systemsa. The method makes use of the imaginary-time propagation of an initial wavefunction toward the ground-state function. It requires use of a trial wavefunction which is the product of single-particle orbitals for bosons or an antisymmetrized product for fermions. A Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation of the propagator changes the many-body problem to a problem of a collection of single particles interacting with a fluctuating (auxiliary) field which replaces the many-body interactions. The authors developed an integral expression for the energy which, after discretization, could be evaluated by a Metropolis Monte Carlo integration forward in time. The algorithm was tested for one-dimensional systems of particles: 6 to 20 bosons with varied interactions, 2 to 6 neutron-proton pairs, others with repulsive potentials. Importance sampling was found to be critical and computational requirements to be large. For spin systems on a lattice the AFMC method was considered feasible, but for general multidimensional systems the method appeared to be limited by its computation requirements.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-06-18
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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