title: Odd-particle systems in the shell model Monte Carlo method: circumventing a sign problem.
abstract: The shell model Monte Carlo method is a powerful technique to calculate thermal and ground-state properties of strongly correlated finite-size systems. However, its application to odd-particle-number systems has been hampered by the sign problem that originates from the projection on an odd number of particles. We circumvent this sign problem for the ground-state energy by extracting the ground-state energy of the odd-particle-number system from the asymptotic behavior of the imaginary-time single-particle Green's function of the even-particle-number system. We apply this method to calculate pairing gaps of nuclei in the iron region. Our results are in good agreement with experimental pairing gaps.
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
authors.forename: Abhishek
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Alhassid