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Hybrid Monte Carlo for the extended Kane-Mele-Hubbard model

Finn L. Temmen·Thomas Luu·Johann Ostmeyer·Lin Wang
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The Hubbard model offers a powerful minimal description of strongly correlated electrons in molecules and materials, yet it neglects effects observed in nature that give rise to a much richer variety of physics. For instance, including nonlocal interactions introduces a competition between strongly correlated phases, while incorporating spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can lead to the emergence of exotic topological phases. Seeking a more realistic platform for simulating graphene and, potentially, related materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), we therefore consider the extended Kane-Mele-Hubbard model, which features a Kane-Mele SOC term and nearest-neighbor interactions. Simulating this model is particularly challenging once the nonlocal interactions become dominant over the on-site Hubbard interaction, as a severe sign problem arises already at half filling, leaving this regime largely unexplored. In this work, we develop continuous auxiliary field formulations of the model, suitable for treatment with the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm. Using these formulations, we characterize the sign problem across the model's parameter space and establish where simulations are feasible, as a first step toward the full phase diagram.

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Finn L. Temmen, Thomas Luu, Johann Ostmeyer, Lin Wang. 2026-10-23. Hybrid Monte Carlo for the extended Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32458

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