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

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/48/004MaRDI QIDQ5714963zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jaebeom Yoo, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Ribhu K. Kaul, Denis Ullmo, Harold U. Baranger

Publication date 16 December 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412771

zbMATH Keywords

Anderson modelHirsch-Fye algorithmIsing configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: 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 analyze under what conditions orbitally degenerate Anderson models or the two-impurity Anderson model develop a sign.

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