The complexity of many-body sign structures is one of the major issues that severely limits the applicability of variational and quantum Monte Carlo algorithms for calculating properties of quantum many-body systems. Here, the authors propose a method to find the sign structure of frustrated quantum spin systems based on the premise that the amplitude and signs of the wave function can be separated and the latter reconstructed using combinatorial optimization.
- Tom Westerhout
- Mikhail I. Katsnelson
- Andrey A. Bagrov