Path-integral Monte Carlo estimator for the dipole polarizability of quantum plasma

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26836v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:26:00 GMT
• Title: Path-integral Monte Carlo estimator for the dipole polarizability of quantum plasma
• Authors: Juha Tiihonen, David Trejo-Garcia, Tapio T. Rantala, Marco Ornigotti,
• Abstract summary: We present a path-integral Monte Carlo estimator for calculating the dipole polarizability of interacting Coulomb plasma in the long-wavelength limit.<n>Unlike the conventional dynamic structure factor in reciprocal space, our approach is based on the real-space dipole autocorrelation function.<n>The simulation of thermal equilibrium in imaginary time has exact Coulomb interactions and Boltzmann quantum statistics.
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• Abstract: We present a path-integral Monte Carlo estimator for calculating the dipole polarizability of interacting Coulomb plasma in the long-wavelength limit, i.e., the optical region. Unlike the conventional dynamic structure factor in reciprocal space, our approach is based on the real-space dipole autocorrelation function and is suited for long wavelengths and small cell sizes, including finite clusters. The simulation of thermal equilibrium in imaginary time has exact Coulomb interactions and Boltzmann quantum statistics. For reference, we demonstrate analytic continuation of the Drude model into the imaginary time and Matsubara series, showing perfect agreement with our data within ranges of finite temperatures and densities. Method parameters, such as the finite time-step and finite-size effects prove only modestly significant. Our method, here carefully validated against an exactly solvable reference, remains amenable to more interesting domains in higher-order optical response, quantum confinements and quantum statistical effects, and applications in plasmonics, heterogeneous plasmas and nonlinear optics, such as epsilon-near-zero materials.

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