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量子自旋系统中渐近Lefschetz环的量子Monte Carlo方法:对磁场中Kitaev模型的应用

A quantum Monte Carlo method on asymptotic Lefschetz thimbles for quantum spin systems: An application to the Kitaev model in a magnetic field

Petr A. Mishchenko, Yasuyuki Kato, Yukitoshi Motome

摘要:

渐近Lefschetz套管上的量子Monte Carlo方法是一种数值算法,专门用于缓解量子多体系统模拟中出现的符号问题。在该方法中,符号问题通过将辅助场的积分域从实空间移动到复空间中的适当流形来缓解,例如在传统的行列式量子蒙特卡罗方法中出现。在这里,我们将这种方法扩展到具有一般双自旋相互作用的量子自旋模型,通过使用Hubbard-Stratonovich变换来解耦交换相互作用和Popov-Fedotov变换来将量子自旋映射到复杂的费米子。作为示范,我们应用该方法的Kitaev模型中的磁场的基态被预测提供一个拓扑量子自旋液体与非阿贝尔任意子激发。为了说明如何在这种方法的符号问题得到缓解,我们可视化的渐近Lefschetz顶针在复杂的空间,以及鞍点和费米子行列式的零点。我们基准我们的方法在低温区域中的磁场,并表明,该行动的迹象是相当大的恢复和无偏的数值结果得到足够的精度。

英文摘要:

The quantum Monte Carlo method on asymptotic Lefschetz thimbles is a numerical algorithm devised specifically for alleviation of the sign problem appearing in the simulations of quantum many-body systems. In this method, the sign problem is alleviated by shifting the integration domain for the auxiliary fields, appearing for example in the conventional determinant quantum Monte Carlo method, from real space to an appropriate manifold in complex space. Here we extend this method to quantum spin models with generic two-spin interactions, by using the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation to decouple the exchange interactions and the Popov-Fedotov transformation to map the quantum spins to complex fermions. As a demonstration, we apply the method to the Kitaev model in a magnetic field whose ground state is predicted to deliver a topological quantum spin liquid with non-Abelian anyonic excitations. To illustrate how the sign problem is alleviated in this method, we visualize the asymptotic Lefschetz thimbles in complex space, together with the saddle points and the zeros of the fermion determinant. We benchmark our method in the low-temperature region in a magnetic field and show that the sign of the action is recovered considerably and unbiased numerical results are obtained with sufficient precision.

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