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Computational complexity and fundamental limitations to fermionic quantum Monte Carlo simulations

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arxiv cond-mat/0408370 v1 pith:D5HH3XKM submitted 2004-08-16 cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.str-elcs.CChep-latphysics.comp-ph

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Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, while being efficient for bosons, suffer from the "negative sign problem'' when applied to fermions - causing an exponential increase of the computing time with the number of particles. A polynomial time solution to the sign problem is highly desired since it would provide an unbiased and numerically exact method to simulate correlated quantum systems. Here we show, that such a solution is almost certainly unattainable by proving that the sign problem is NP-hard, implying that a generic solution of the sign problem would also solve all problems in the complexity class NP (nondeterministic polynomial) in polynomial time.

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