Stable Determinant Monte Carlo Simulations at Large Inverse Temperature $β$

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Main Authors: Luu, Thomas, Ostmeyer, Johann, Sinilkov, Petar, Temmen, Finn L.
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author Luu, Thomas
Ostmeyer, Johann
Sinilkov, Petar
Temmen, Finn L.
author_facet Luu, Thomas
Ostmeyer, Johann
Sinilkov, Petar
Temmen, Finn L.
contents At low temperatures $T$ where $1/T=β\gg1$ the naïve implementation of determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) methods suffers from loss of precision and numerical instabilities when evaluating the fermion determinant. This instability propagates into the calculation of observables that rely on the evaluation of the inverse of the fermion matrix, or the Greens function. For DQMC methods that rely on the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm, an additional complication comes from evaluating the force terms required for integrating Hamilton's equations of motion, since here loss of precision and numerical instabilities are also prevalent. We show how to address all these issues using various choices of matrix decompositions, allowing us to simulate at $β\gtrsim 90$, which corresponds to room temperature for graphene structures. Furthermore, our implementation has numerical costs that scale similarly to the naïve implementation, namely as $\mathcal{O}(N_x^3N_t)$, where $N_x$ ($N_t$) is the number of spatial (temporal) sites.
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spellingShingle Stable Determinant Monte Carlo Simulations at Large Inverse Temperature $β$
Luu, Thomas
Ostmeyer, Johann
Sinilkov, Petar
Temmen, Finn L.
Computational Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
At low temperatures $T$ where $1/T=β\gg1$ the naïve implementation of determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) methods suffers from loss of precision and numerical instabilities when evaluating the fermion determinant. This instability propagates into the calculation of observables that rely on the evaluation of the inverse of the fermion matrix, or the Greens function. For DQMC methods that rely on the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm, an additional complication comes from evaluating the force terms required for integrating Hamilton's equations of motion, since here loss of precision and numerical instabilities are also prevalent. We show how to address all these issues using various choices of matrix decompositions, allowing us to simulate at $β\gtrsim 90$, which corresponds to room temperature for graphene structures. Furthermore, our implementation has numerical costs that scale similarly to the naïve implementation, namely as $\mathcal{O}(N_x^3N_t)$, where $N_x$ ($N_t$) is the number of spatial (temporal) sites.
title Stable Determinant Monte Carlo Simulations at Large Inverse Temperature $β$
topic Computational Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00815