Diffusion Monte Carlo methods for spin-orbit-coupled ultracold Bose gases

We present two diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) algorithms for systems of ultracold quantum gases featuring synthetic spin-orbit interactions. The first one is a spin-integrated DMC method which provides fixed-phase energy estimates. The second one is a discrete spin generalisation of the T-moves spin-or...

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Autores: Sánchez Baena, Juan|||0000-0001-6825-2843, Boronat Medico, Jordi|||0000-0002-0273-3457, Mazzanti Castrillejo, Fernando Pablo|||0000-0001-6641-0609
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/126326
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/126326
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053632
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Monte Carlo method
Bosons
Montecarlo, Mètode de
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:We present two diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) algorithms for systems of ultracold quantum gases featuring synthetic spin-orbit interactions. The first one is a spin-integrated DMC method which provides fixed-phase energy estimates. The second one is a discrete spin generalisation of the T-moves spin-orbit DMC [Melton et al., J. Chem. Phys. 144, 244113 (2016)], which provides an upper bound to the fixed-phase energy. The former is a more accurate method but it is restricted to spin-independent two-body interactions. We report a comparison between both algorithms for different systems. As a check of the efficiency of both methods, we compare the DMC energies with results obtained with other numerical methods, finding agreement between both estimations.