Quantum Monte Carlo methods for charged systems
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Quantum Monte Carlo methods for charged systems
•Charged systems are the basic model of condensed matter physics
How can this be done with cold atoms?
ÞHow can they be simulated with Quantum Monte Carlo?
Phase diagram of the “one component plasma” in 2D
(as important as hubbard model?)
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Many different quantum Monte Carlo methods
Which ensemble?T=0
• VMC (variational)• DMC/GFMC (projector)
or T>0?
• PIMC (path integrals)
Which basis?Particle
• Coordinate Space
• Sz representation for spin
Occupation Number
• Lattice models
Wave functions
• Hartree-Fock• Slater-Jastrow• Backflow, 3 body• Localized orbitals in
crystal
Which Hamiltonian?
•Continuum
•Lattice (Hubbard, LGT)
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Imaginary-time path integralsThe thermal density matrix is:
• Trotter’s theorem (1959):
( )ˆ
ˆ lim
/
T V
MT V
M
e
e e
M
i i 11
S(R ,R ; )
1 MZ dR ...dR
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(R R ) τ( , ; ) V(R ) V(R )
4λ 2S R R
τ
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“Distinguishable” particles within PIMC
• Each particle is a ring polymer; an exact representation of a quantum wavepacket in imaginary time.
• Integrate over all paths• The dots represent the
“start” of the path. (but all points are equivalent)
• The lower the real temperature, the longer the “string” and the more spread out the wavepacket.
• Path Integral methods can calculate all equilibrium properties without uncontrolled approximations
• We can do ~2000 charges with ~1000 time slices.
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Bose/Fermi Statistics in PIMC• Average by sampling
over all paths and over connections.
• At the superfluid transition a “macroscopic” permutation appears.
• This is reflection of bose condensation within
PIMC.• Fermion sign problem: -1
for odd permutations.
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Projector Monte Carlo (T=0)aka Green’s function MC, Diffusion MC
• Automatic way to get better wavefunctions.• Project single state using the Hamiltonian
• This is a diffusion + branching operator.• Very scalable: each walker gets a processor.• This a probability for bosons/boltzmanons since ground state can be made real
and non-negative. • Use a trial wavefunction to control fluctuations and guide the random walk;
“importance sampling”• For a liquid we use a Jastrow wavefunction, for a solid we also use Wannier
functions (Gaussians) to tie particles to lattice sites.• More accurate than PIMC but potentially more biased by the trial wavefunction.
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How can we handle charged systems?• If we cutoff potential :
– Effect of discontinuity never disappears: (1/r) (r2) gets bigger.– Will not give proper plasmons because Poisson equation is not
satisfied
• Image potential solves this: VI = v(ri-rj+nL)
– But summation diverges. We need to resum. This gives the Ewald image potential.
– For one component system we have to add a background to make it neutral (background comes from other physics)
– Even the trial function is long ranged and needs to be resummed.
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Computational effort• r-space part same as short-ranged potential• k-space part:
1. Compute exp(ik0xi) =(cos (ik0xi), sin (ik0xi)), k0=2/L.
2. Compute powers exp(i2k0xi) = exp(ik0xi )*exp(ik0xi) etc. Get all values of exp(ik . ri) with just multiplications.
3. Sum over particles to get k for all k.
4. Sum over k to get the potentials.
Constant terms to be added.
Table driven method used on lattices is O(N2).
For N>1000 faster methods are known.
O(N3/2)
O(N)
O(N3/2)
O(N3/2)
O(N1/2)
O(1)
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Fixed-node method
• Impose the condition:• This is the fixed-node BC
• Will give an upper bound to the exact energy, the best upper bound consistent with the FNBC.
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0 0
( ) 0 when ( ) 0.
if ( ) ( ) 0 all
T
FN
FN
R R
E E
E E R R R
•f(R,t) has a discontinuous gradient at the nodal location.
•Accurate method because Bose correlations are done exactly.
•Scales well, like the VMC method, as N3.
•Can be generalized from the continuum to lattice finite temperature, magnetic fields, …
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Dependence of energy on wavefunction 3d Electron fluid at a density rs=10
Kwon, Ceperley, Martin, Phys. Rev. B58,6800, 1998
• Wavefunctions
– Slater-Jastrow (SJ)
– three-body (3)
– backflow (BF)
– fixed-node (FN)
• Energy < |H| > converges to ground state
• Variance < [H-E]2 > to zero.
• Using 3B-BF gains a factor of 4.
• Using DMC gains a factor of 4.-0.109
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-0.108
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VarianceE
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FN -SJ
FN-BF
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The 2D one component plasmaPRL 103, 055701 (2009); arXiv:0905.4515 (2009)
Bryan Clark, UIUC & Princeton
Michele Casula, UIUC & Saclay, France
DMC UIUC
Support from: NSF-DMR 0404853
•Electrons or ions on liquid helium •Semiconductor MOSFET•charged colloids on surfaces
We need cleaner experimental systems!
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Phase Diagram for 2d boson OCP(up to now)
Wigner crystal
Classical plasma
Quantum fluid
1 / rs =(density)1/2
T (R) Quantum-classical crossover
Hexatic phase ~124
rs ~ 60 ~ 3x1012 cm2
Electrons on helium
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De Palo, Conti, Moroni, PRB 2004.
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Inhomogenous phases• Cannot have 2-phase coexistence at first
order transition! the background forbids it
• Jamei, Kivelson and Spivak [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 056805 (2005)] “proved” (with mean field techniques) that a 2d charged system cannot make a direct transition from crystal to liquid
• a stripe phase between liquid and crystal has lower energy
• Does not prove that stripes are the lowest energy state, only that the pure liquid or crystal is unstable at the transition
assume Boltzmann statistics – no fermion sign problem.
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area
Maxwell construction
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snapshots
122<<124
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Triangular lattice forms spontaneously in PIMC
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Structure Factors
PIMC
Exper.
Keim, Maret, von Grunberg.
Classical MC
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Hexatic order
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ijii ij c
j i
g r r
r r r r r e
He,Cui,Ma,Liu,Zou PRB 68,195104 (2003).
Muto , Aoki PRB 59, 14911(1999)
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2d OCP Phase Diagram PRL 102,055701 (2009)
Wigner crystal
Classical plasma
Quantum fluid
1 / rs
T (R)
Hexatic phase
Clausius-Clapeyron relation :
First order transition is on “nose”
1 1s s
dT K
ETr dr
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Transition order differs from KT?
1 / rs
T (R)
T(R)
1st order 2nd order?
Internal energy vs T
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Unusual structure in peak of S(k)
Could be caused by many small crystals
rs=65, N=2248
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Structures exist in transition region•Are structures real? Or an ergodic problem
•Are they different from a liquid?
•Can we make a ground state model? Not one that is energetically favorable.
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Wigner crystal
Normal fluid
superfluid
hexatic
2D Bose OCP
T (R)
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2dOCP fermion Phase diagram
• 2d Wigner crystal is a spin liquid.
• Magnetic properties are nearly divergent at melting (2d) and (nearly) 2nd order melting.
• But sign problem?
UNKNOWN
QuantumFluid
Super-conductor?
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Phase Diagram of 3DEG
Polarization
transition
• second order partially polarized transition at rs=52 like the Stoner model (replace interaction with a contact potential)
• Antiferromagnetic Wigner Crystal at rs>105
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Conclusions
• Long-ranged interactions are not an intractable problem for simulation.
• We have established the outlines of the OCP phase diagram for boltzmannons and bosons.
• Evidence for intervening inhomogeneous phases is weak• Future work: fermi statistics – but the “sign problem” makes the fluid
phases challenging (not hopeless).
• The OCP is a good target for a “quantum emulator.”• With optical lattice+disorder one can reach some of the most
important problems in CMP.