POSITIVE-PROJECTION MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION - A NEW VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO STRONGLY INTERACTING FERMION SYSTEMS

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FAHY, SB [1 ]
HAMANN, DR [1 ]
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[1] AT&T BELL LABS,MURRAY HILL,NJ 07974
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.3437
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We show that very accurate ground-state energies and correlation functions can be obtained from an approximate, variational form of the widely used auxiliary-field simulation method. It is derived by recasting this method as a diffusion problem, and does not exhibit the poor statistical behavior due to vanishing normalization or "sign" common to exact fermion simulations. We give illustrative results for two-dimensional Hubbard models.
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