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20192026
most citedFast and scalable quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron-phonon models

33 citations · 187 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

The half-filled optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Hubbard model with uniaxial strain

Jonah Huang, James Neuhaus, Benjamin Cohen-Stead +2

Strain offers a direct route to control electronic phases by altering bond lengths, hopping amplitudes, and lattice symmetries. These aspects make electron-phonon (e-ph) coupled sy…

cond-mat.str-el2026

A DQMC study of the spectral and conductive properties of the two-dimensional Holstein model

J. Neuhaus, B. Cohen-Stead, N. Mannella +1

We study the dynamical properties of the two-dimensional square lattice Holstein Hamiltonian using numerically exact determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations. In particular, we…

cond-mat.str-el2026

SmoQyElPhQMC.jl: An open-source Julia package for efficient and scalable quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron-phonon coupled models

Benjamin Cohen-Stead, James Neuhaus, Kipton Barros +2

We introduce version 1.0 of the SmoQyElPhQMC.jl package, an open-source Julia code for performing scalable quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron-phonon coupled model Hamilton…

cond-mat.str-el2026

The optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model on a triangular lattice

Max Casebolt, Sohan Malkaruge Costa, Benjamin Cohen-Stead +2

We study the triangular lattice optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using determinant quantum Monte Carlo. By varying the model's carrier concentration, electron-phonon coupli…

cond-mat.str-el2026★ 1 cited

Charge Order in the half-filled bond-Holstein Model

Charles Jordan, George Issa, Ehsan Khatami +3

We use determinant quantum Monte Carlo to study the half-filled `bond-Holstein' model on a square lattice. We find that the model exhibits a charge-density-wave (CDW) phase transit…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Antiferromagnetism and Kekulé valence bond order in the honeycomb optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Hubbard model

Sohan Malkaruge Costa, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Steven Johnston

The precise role of e-ph coupling in graphene and related materials on a honeycomb lattice is not yet fully understood, despite extensive research on these systems. Here, we perfor…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 3 cited

Antiferromagnetic and bond-order-wave phases in the half-filled two-dimensional optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Hubbard model

Andy Tanjaroon Ly, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Steven Johnston

Electron-phonon (-ph) interactions arise in many strongly correlated quantum materials from the modulation of the nearest-neighbor hopping integrals, as in the celebrated Su-Sch…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 4 cited

Optimizing the Critical Temperature and Superfluid Density of a Metal-Superconductor Bilayer

Yutan Zhang, Philip M. Dee, Benjamin Cohen-Stead +3

A promising path to realizing higher superconducting transition temperatures is the strategic engineering of artificial heterostructures. For example, quantum materials could…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 3 cited

Persistence of small polarons into the superconducting phase of BaKBiO

Muntaser Naamneh, Eugenio Paris, Daniel McNally +12

Bipolaronic superconductivity is an exotic pairing mechanism proposed for materials like BaKBiO (BKBO); however, conclusive experimental evidence for a (bi)polaron…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 5 cited

Kekulé valence bond order in the honeycomb lattice optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Model and its relevance to Graphene

Sohan Malkaruge Costa, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Steven Johnston

We perform sign-problem-free determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model on a half-filled honeycomb lattice. In particular, we inves…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 6 cited

SmoQyDEAC.jl: A differential evolution package for the analytic continuation of imaginary time correlation functions

James Neuhaus, Nathan S. Nichols, Debshikha Banerjee +4

We introduce the SmoQyDEAC.jl package, a Julia implementation of the Differential Evolution Analytic Continuation (DEAC) algorithm [N. S. Nichols et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 025312 (…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 6 cited

Fluctuating charge-density-wave correlations in the three-band Hubbard model

P. Mai, B. Cohen-Stead, T. A. Maier +1

The high-temperature superconducting cuprates host unidirectional spin- and charge-density-wave orders that can intertwine with superconductivity in non-trivial ways. While the cha…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 19 cited

SmoQyDQMC.jl: A flexible implementation of determinant quantum Monte Carlo for Hubbard and electron-phonon interactions (version 2.0 release)

Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Shruti Agarwal, Sohan Malkaruge Costa +6

We introduce version 2.0 of the SmoQyDQMC.jl package, a Julia implementation of the determinant quantum Monte Carlo algorithm. SmoQyDQMC.jl supports generalized tight-binding Hamil…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

A comparative study of the superconductivity in the Holstein and optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger models

Andy Tanjaroon Ly, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Sohan Malkaruge Costa +1

Theoretical studies suggest that Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-like electron-phonon (-ph) interactions can mediate high-temperature bipolaronic superconductivity that is robust against r…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 1 cited

A comparative determinant quantum Monte Carlo study of the acoustic and optical variants of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

Sohan Malkaruge Costa, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Andy Tanjaroon Ly +2

We compare the acoustic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with two of its optical variants where the phonons are defined on either on the sites or bonds of the system. First, we dis…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 3 cited

Charge correlations suppress unconventional pairing in the Holstein model

Philip M. Dee, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Steven Johnston +1

In a recent work by Schrodi . [Phys. Rev. B. , L140506 (2021)], the authors find an unconventional superconducting state with a sign-changing order pa…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 17 cited

Charge order in the kagome lattice Holstein model: A hybrid Monte Carlo study

Owen Bradley, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Steven Johnston +2

The Holstein model is a paradigmatic description of the electron-phonon interaction, in which electrons couple to local dispersionless phonon modes, independent of momentum. The mo…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 8 cited

A flexible class of exact Hubbard-Stratonovich transformations

Seher Karakuzu, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Cristian D. Batista +2

We consider a class of Hubbard-Stratonovich transformations suitable for treating Hubbard interactions in the context of quantum Monte Carlo simulations. A tunable parameter al…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 25 cited

A hybrid Monte Carlo study of bond-stretching electron-phonon interactions and charge order in BaBiO

Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Kipton Barros, Richard Scalettar +1

The relationship between electron-phonon (-ph) interactions and charge-density-wave (CDW) order in the bismuthate family of high-temperature superconductors remains unresolved.…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 33 cited

Fast and scalable quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron-phonon models

Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Owen Bradley, Cole Miles +3

We introduce methodologies for highly scalable quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron-phonon models, and report benchmark results for the Holstein model on the square lattice.…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 16 cited

Dynamical tuning of the chemical potential to achieve a target particle number in grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations

Cole Miles, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Owen Bradley +3

We present a method to facilitate Monte Carlo simulations in the grand canonical ensemble given a target mean particle number. The method imposes a fictitious dynamics on the chemi…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 14 cited

Quantum Monte Carlo study of an anharmonic Holstein model

G. Paleari, F. Hébert, B. Cohen-Stead +3

We study the effects of anharmonicity on the physics of the Holstein model, which describes the coupling of itinerant fermions and localized quantum phonons, by introducing a quart…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 23 cited

Effect of Strain on Charge Density Wave Order in the Holstein Model

B. Cohen-Stead, N. C. Costa, E. Khatami +1

We investigate charge ordering in the Holstein model in the presence of anisotropic hopping, , as a model of the effect of strain on charge density wave (CDW)…