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most citedTemperature Dependence of Spin and Charge Orders in the Doped Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

44 citations · 147 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.comp-ph2026

Signature of Short-Range Order in Static Response of the Three-Dimensional Electron Gas

Muhammed H. Güneş, Yubo Yang, Vitaly Gorelov +4

The three-dimensional electron gas is a fundamental model in condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry, and the exchange-correlation energy derived from it serves as the start…

cond-mat.str-el2026

AutoHF: a general Hartree-Fock solver utilizing direct energy minimization with automatic differentiation

Ryan Levy, Brandon Eskridge, Lukas Weber +2

We present autohf, a general, easy-to-use mean-field solver for quantum many-fermion Hamiltonians. It allows the user to bypass the process of deciphering the mean-field form for e…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Removing nodal and support-mismatch pathologies in Variational Monte Carlo via blurred sampling

Zhou-Quan Wan, Roeland Wiersema, Shiwei Zhang

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) is a powerful and fast-growing method for optimizing and evolving parameterized many-body wave functions, especially with modern neural-network quantu…

quant-ph2026

Neural Network Discovery of Paired Wigner Crystals in Artificial Graphene

Conor Smith, Yubo Yang, Zhou-Quan Wan +3

Moiré systems have emerged as an exciting tunable platform for engineering and probing quantum matter. A large number of exotic states have been observed, stimulating intense effor…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Quantum Geometry Driven Crystallization: A Neural-Network Variational Monte Carlo Study

Agnes Valenti, Yaar Vituri, Yubo Yang +7

Wigner crystals are a paradigmatic form of interaction driven electronic order. A key open question is how Berry curvature and, more generally, quantum geometry reshape crystalliza…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Visualizing the Impact of Quenched Disorder on 2D Electron Wigner Solids

Zhehao Ge, Conor Smith, Zehao He +17

Electron Wigner solids (WSs)1-12 provide an ideal system for understanding the competing effects of electron-electron and electron-disorder interactions, a central unsolved problem…

physics.chem-ph2025

Excited states in auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo

Ankit Mahajan, Sandeep Sharma, Shiwei Zhang +1

We systematically investigate the calculation of excited states in quantum chemistry using auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). Symmetry allows targeting of the lowest trip…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Engineering Hubbard models with gated two-dimensional moiré systems

Yiqi Yang, Yubo Yang, Miguel A. Morales +1

Lattice models are powerful tools for studying strongly correlated quantum many-body systems, but their general lack of exact solutions motivates efforts to simulate them in tunabl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Spatiotemporal Order and Parametric Instabilities from First-Principles

Daniel Kaplan, Pavel A. Volkov, Jennifer Coulter +2

Shaping crystal structure with light is an enduring goal of physics and materials engineering. Here we present calculations in candidate materials selected by symmetry that allow l…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 1 cited

Addressing the Infinite Variance Problem in Fermionic Monte Carlo Simulations: Retrospective Error Remediation and the Exact Bridge Link Method

Zhou-Quan Wan, Shiwei Zhang

We revisit the infinite variance problem in fermionic Monte Carlo simulations, which is widely encountered in areas ranging from condensed matter to nuclear and high-energy physics…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 5 cited

Implementing advanced trial wave functions in fermion quantum Monte Carlo via stochastic sampling

Zhi-Yu Xiao, Zixiang Lu, Yixiao Chen +2

We introduce an efficient approach to implement correlated many-body trial wave functions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). To control the sign/phase problem in AFQMC…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 5 cited

Single-Particle Dispersion and Density of States of the Half-Filled 2D Hubbard Model

Gabe Schumm, Shiwei Zhang, Anders W. Sandvik

Implementing an improved method for analytic continuation and working with imaginary-time correlation functions computed using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we resolve the singl…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 4 cited

Critical gate distance for Wigner crystallization in the two-dimensional electron gas

Agnes Valenti, Vladimir Calvera, Yubo Yang +4

We report on the properties of the two-dimensional electron gas in a dual-gate geometry, using quantum Monte Carlo methods to obtain aspects of the phase diagram as a function of e…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 1 cited

The light-matter correlation energy functional of the cavity-coupled two-dimensional electron gas via quantum Monte Carlo simulations

Lukas Weber, Miguel A. Morales, Johannes Flick +2

We perform extensive simulations of the two-dimensional cavity-coupled electron gas in a modulating potential as a minimal model for cavity quantum materials. These simulations are…

math.NA2024

Re-anchoring Quantum Monte Carlo with Tensor-Train Sketching

Ziang Yu, Shiwei Zhang, Yuehaw Khoo

We propose a novel algorithm for calculating the ground-state energy of quantum many-body systems by combining auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) with tensor-train sketchi…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 3 cited

The two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas with symmetric dual-gate screening: exchange-correlation functional and other ground-state properties

Yiqi Yang, Yubo Yang, Kun Chen +2

The two-dimensional (2D) homogeneous electron gas (HEG) is a fundamental model in quantum many-body physics. It is important to theoretical and computational studies, where exchang…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 7 cited

Phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method for cavity-QED matter systems

Lukas Weber, Leonardo dos Anjos Cunha, Miguel A. Morales +2

We present a generalization of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method to cavity quantum-electrodynamical (QED) matter systems. The method can be formulate…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 6 cited

Ferromagnetic semimetal and charge-density wave phases of interacting electrons in a honeycomb moiré potential

Yubo Yang, Miguel A. Morales, Shiwei Zhang

The exploration of quantum phases in moiré systems has drawn intense experimental and theoretical efforts. The realization of honeycomb symmetry has been a recent focus. The combin…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 21 cited

Ground state phases of the two-dimension electron gas with a unified variational approach

Conor Smith, Yixiao Chen, Ryan Levy +3

The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is a fundamental model, which is drawing increasing interest because of recent advances in experimental and theoretical studies of 2D materi…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 20 cited

Observation of an electronic microemulsion phase emerging from a quantum crystal-to-liquid transition

Jiho Sung, Jue Wang, Ilya Esterlis +14

Strongly interacting electronic systems possess rich phase diagrams resulting from the competition between different quantum ground states. A general mechanism that relieves this f…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 27 cited

Downfolding from Ab Initio to Interacting Model Hamiltonians: Comprehensive Analysis and Benchmarking of the DFT+cRPA Approach

Yueqing Chang, Erik G. C. P. van Loon, Brandon Eskridge +8

Model Hamiltonians are regularly derived from first-principles data to describe correlated matter. However, the standard methods for this contain a number of largely unexplored app…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 44 cited

Temperature Dependence of Spin and Charge Orders in the Doped Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Bo Xiao, Yuan-Yao He, Antoine Georges +1

Competing and intertwined orders including inhomogeneous patterns of spin and charge are observed in many correlated electron materials, such as high-temperature superconductors. I…