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arxiv 1909.10591 v1 pith:I7ILAJHQ submitted 2019-09-23 cond-mat.str-el

Anders W. Sandvik This is my paper · ORCID
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The Stochastic Series Expansion (SSE) technique is a quantum Monte Carlo method that is especially efficient for many quantum spin systems and boson models. It was the first generic method free from the discretization errors affecting previous path integral based approaches. These lecture notes give a brief overview of the SSE method and its applications. In the introductory section, the representation of quantum statistical mechanics by the power series expansion of ${\rm e}^{-\beta H}$ will be compared with path integrals in discrete and continuous imaginary time. Extensions of the SSE approach to ground state projection and quantum annealing in imaginary time will also be briefly discussed. The later sections introduce efficient sampling schemes (loop and cluster updates) that have been developed for many classes of models. A summary of generic forms of estimators for important observables are also given. Applications are discussed in the last section.

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