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arXiv:0911.5155 · Physical Review Letters

Comment on “Exact Bosonization for an Interacting Fermi Gas in Arbitrary Dimensions”

D. Galanakis, Shuxiang Yang, Fakher F. Assaad, Mark Jarrell, Philipp Werner, Matthias Troyer

Published Oct 5, 2010• 1 citation
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Abstract

This a comment on arXiv:0907.3243v2. We demonstrate that the method proposed by Efetov {\it et. al.} is just a reformulation of the Blankenbeckler, Scalapino, and Sugar approach and thus it contains exactly the same sign problem, including the dependence of the sign on the smoothness of the paths.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.105.159701

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