Nature Communications (Sep 2024)

Combinatorial summation of Feynman diagrams

  • Evgeny Kozik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52000-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Abstract Feynman’s diagrammatic series is a common language for a formally exact theoretical description of systems of infinitely-many interacting quantum particles, as well as a foundation for precision computational techniques. Here we introduce a universal framework for efficient summation of connected or skeleton Feynman diagrams for generic quantum many-body systems. It is based on an explicit combinatorial construction of the sum of the integrands by dynamic programming, at a computational cost that can be made only exponential in the diagram order on a classical computer and potentially polynomial on a quantum computer. We illustrate the technique by an unbiased diagrammatic Monte Carlo calculation of the equation of state of the 2D S U(N) Hubbard model in an experimentally relevant regime, which has remained challenging for state-of-the-art numerical methods.