On Monday (17/12/2018), we have another interesting talk in our Probability and Statistics seminar series at TU Delft.
All of you are very welcome.

Barbara Terhal (TU Delft, QuTech)When: Monday, December 17th, 16:00
Where: TU Delft, Faculty EWI, Mekelweg 4, EWI-Lecture hall F

The sign problem in quantum physics: room for algorithms and optimization

Quantum physical problems are described by a sparse Hermitian matrix called a Hamiltonian which obeys a certain locality structure allowing for an efficient description. A subset of such Hamiltonians have been called sign-problem free or “stoquastic” as their smallest eigenvector is the largest eigenvector of a nonnegative matrix. The connection with nonnegative matrices has allowed for the development of various Quantum Monte Carlo methods to simulate features of these Hamiltonians in the quantum physics community over the past 30 years. As the non-negativity of a matrix is basis-dependent, local basis changes which preserve the locality structure of the Hamiltonian can remove the sign problem. We report on our new results of finding such local basis changes algorithmically for subclasses of Hamiltonians.

More details on the seminar’s website:
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ eemcs/the-faculty/departments/ applied-mathematics/applied- probability/events/seminars/