Friday, August 3, 2012

1208.0188 (A. Ramezanpour et al.)

The sign problem in the Bethe approximation    [PDF]

A. Ramezanpour, R. Zecchina
We propose a message-passing algorithm to compute the Hamiltonian expectation with respect to an appropriate class of trial wave functions for an interacting system of fermions. To this end, we connect the quantum expectations to average quantities in a classical system with both local and global interactions, which are related to the variational parameters, and use the Bethe approximation to estimate the average energy within the replica-symmetric approximation. The global interactions, which are needed to obtain good estimation of the average fermion sign, make the average energy a non-local function of the variational parameters. We use some heuristic minimization algorithms to find approximate ground states of the Hubbard model on random regular graphs, and observe significant qualitative improvements with respect to the mean-field approximation.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0188

No comments:

Post a Comment