English
Related papers

Related papers: Exact ground state Monte Carlo method for Bosons w…

200 papers

To efficiently evaluate system reliability based on Monte Carlo simulation, importance sampling is used widely. The optimal importance sampling density was derived in 1950s for the deterministic simulation model, which maps an input to an…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-04 Quoc Dung Cao , Youngjun Choe

The Effective Sample Size (ESS) is an important measure of efficiency of Monte Carlo methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Importance Sampling (IS) techniques. In the IS context, an approximation $\widehat{ESS}$ of the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-27 L. Martino , V. Elvira , F. Louzada

Ground state properties of condensed Helium are calculated using the Path Integral Ground State (PIGS) method. A fourth-order approximation is used as short (imaginary) time propagator. We compare our results with those obtained with other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Javier E. Cuervo , Pierre-Nicholas Roy , Massimo Boninsegni

High-dimensional count data poses significant challenges for statistical analysis, necessitating effective methods that also preserve explainability. We focus on a low rank constrained variant of the Poisson log-normal model, which relates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Bastien Batardière , Julien Chiquet , Joon Kwon , Julien Stoehr

Distributed detection fusion with high-dimension conditionally dependent observations is known to be a challenging problem. When a fusion rule is fixed, this paper attempts to make progress on this problem for the large sensor networks by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Hang Rao , Xiaojing Shen , Yunmin Zhu , Jianxin Pan

Importance sampling is a Monte Carlo method which designs estimators of expectations under a target distribution using weighted samples from a proposal distribution. When the target distribution is complex, such as multimodal distributions…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-04 Anas Cherradi , Yazid Janati , Alain Durmus , Sylvain Le Corff , Yohan Petetin , Julien Stoehr

We discuss a projector Monte Carlo method for quantum spin models formulated in the valence bond basis, using the S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet as an example. Its singlet ground state can be projected out of an arbitrary basis state as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Sandvik , K. S. D. Beach

Models for which the likelihood function can be evaluated only up to a parameter-dependent unknown normalising constant, such as Markov random field models, are used widely in computer science, statistical physics, spatial statistics, and…

Computation · Statistics 2016-02-12 Richard G. Everitt , Adam M. Johansen , Ellen Rowing , Melina Evdemon-Hogan

We use exact diagonalization to study an interacting system of $N$ spinless bosons with finite-range Gaussian repulsion, confined in a quasi-two-dimensional harmonic trap with and without an introduced rotation. The diagonalization of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-02 Mohd. Imran , M. A. H. Ahsan

This article addresses online variational estimation in parametric state-space models. We propose a new procedure for efficiently computing the evidence lower bound and its gradient in a streaming-data setting, where observations arrive…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-09 Mathis Chagneux , Mathias Müller , Pierre Gloaguen , Sylvain Le Corff , Jimmy Olsson

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a powerful and expressive ansatz for representing quantum many-body wave functions. However, their training via Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) methods remains challenging. It is well known that some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Antoine Misery , Luca Gravina , Alessandro Santini , Filippo Vicentini

Importance sampling with data-driven proposal distributions is widely used in practice. A common workflow first generates an auxiliary sample of size $N$ from an approximation of the target distribution, constructs a density estimate $\hat…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Cathrine Aeckerle-Willems , Ilja Klebanov , Simon Weissmann

In the study of phase transitions a very few models are accessible to exact solution. In the most cases analytical simplifications have to be done or some numerical technique has to be used to get insight about their critical properties.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 B. V. Costa , L. A. S. Mól , J. C. S. Rocha

Dynamic Programming (DP) suffers from the well-known ``curse of dimensionality'', further exacerbated by the need to compute expectations over process noise in stochastic models. This paper presents a Monte Carlo-based sampling approach for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Mohammad S. Ramadan , Ahmad Al-Tawaha , Mohamed Shouman , Ahmed Atallah , Ming Jin

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a class of deep neural networks that are trained, using automatic differentiation, to compute the response of systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). The training of PINNs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mohammad Amin Nabian , Rini Jasmine Gladstone , Hadi Meidani

We perform path integral Monte Carlo simulations to study the imaginary time dynamics of metastable supercooled superfluid states and nearly superglassy states of a one component fluid of spinless bosons square wells. Our study shows that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-10 Riccardo Fantoni

Monte Carlo simulations are methods for simulating statistical systems. The aim is to generate a representative ensemble of configurations to access thermodynamical quantities without the need to solve the system analytically or to perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jean-Charles Walter , Gerard Barkema

The numerically exact path integral Monte Carlo approach for the real-time evolution of dissipative quantum systems (PIMC), particularly suited for systems with discrete configuration space (tight-binding systems), is extended to treat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lothar Muehlbacher , Charlotte Escher , Joachim Ankerhold

Beam dump experiments have been used to search for new particles with null results interpreted in terms of limits on masses $m_\phi$ and coupling constants $\epsilon$. However these limits have been obtained by using approximations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 Yu-Sheng Liu , David McKeen , Gerald A. Miller

State-space models have been used in many applications, including econometrics, engineering, medical research, etc. The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of the static parameter of general state-space models is not straightforward because…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-04 Yuxiong Gao , Wentao Li , Rong Chen