Stochastic mean-field approach to strongly correlated phases of ultracold fermions.
Résumé
We propose a new projector quantum Monte-Carlo method to investigate the ground state of ultracold fermionic atoms modeled by a lattice Hamiltonian with an on-site interaction. The many-body state is reconstructed from Slater determinants that evolve in imaginary-time according to a stochastic mean-field motion without explicit sign problems. The method is applied to calculate ground-state energies and correlation functions of the repulsive two-dimensional Hubbard model. Numerical results for the unitary Fermi gas validate simulations with nodal constraints.