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On the sign problem in the Hirsch–Fye algorithm for impurity problems

Jaebeom Yoo, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Ribhu K Kaul, Denis Ullmo1 and Harold U Baranger

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We show that there is no fermion sign problem in the Hirsch and Fye algorithm for the single-impurity Anderson model. Beyond the particle-hole symmetric case for which a simple proof exists, this has been known only empirically. Here we prove the nonexistence of a sign problem for the general case by showing that each spin trace for a given Ising configuration is separately positive. We further use this insight to analyse under what conditions orbitally degenerate Anderson models or the two-impurity Anderson model develop a sign.


PACS

71.10.Ca Electron gas, Fermi gas

02.70.Ss Quantum Monte Carlo methods

MSC

82C22 Interacting particle systems (See also 60K35)

82C80 Numerical methods (Monte Carlo, series resummation, etc.)

Subjects

Computational physics

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 48 (2 December 2005)

Received 27 June 2005, in final form 16 September 2005

Published 16 November 2005



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