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A quantum Monte Carlo study of the atomization energies for the G2 set of molecules is presented. Basis size dependence of diffusion Monte Carlo atomization energies is studied with a single determinant Slater-Jastrow trial wavefunction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. R. Petruzielo , Julien Toulouse , C. J. Umrigar

We derive a lattice approximation for a class of equilibrium quantum statistics describing the behaviour of any combination and number of bosonic and fermionic particles with any sufficiently binding potential. We then develop an intuitive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jani Lukkarinen

Most of the novel energy materials contain multiple elements occupying a single site in their lattice. The exceedingly large configurational space of these materials imposes challenges in determining their ground-state structures. Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-04 Konstantin Köster , Tobias Binninger , Payam Kaghazchi

According to the shock jump conditions, the total fluid's mass, momentum, and energy should be conserved in the entire simulation box. We perform the dynamical Monte Carlo simulations with the multiple scattering law for energy analysis.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xin Wang , Yihua Yan

The fundamental problem faced in quantum chemistry is the calculation of molecular properties, which are of practical importance in fields ranging from materials science to biochemistry. Within chemical precision, the total energy of a…

In regimes of low signal strengths and therefore a small signal-to-noise ratio, standard data analysis methods often fail to accurately estimate system properties. We present a method based on Monte Carlo simulations to effectively restore…

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods require a large number of samples to approximate a posterior distribution, which can be costly when the likelihood or prior is expensive to evaluate. The number of samples can be reduced if we can…

Computation · Statistics 2019-08-06 V. Roshan Joseph , Dianpeng Wang , Li Gu , Shiji Lv , Rui Tuo

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a versatile and expressive alternative to traditional variational ans\"atze for simulating physical systems. Energy-based frameworks, like Hopfield networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Manas Sajjan , Vinit Singh , Sabre Kais

We present a method based on the Path Integral Monte Carlo formalism for the calculation of ground-state time correlation functions in quantum systems. The key point of the method is the consideration of time as a complex variable whose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Riccardo Rota , Joaquim Casulleras , Ferran Mazzanti , Jordi Boronat

An analysis of the network defined by the potential energy minima of multi-atomic systems and their connectivity via reaction pathways that go through transition states allows to understand important characteristics like thermodynamic,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Bastian Schaefer , Stefan Goedecker

While most work on the quantum simulation of chemistry has focused on computing energy surfaces, a similarly important application requiring subtly different algorithms is the computation of energy derivatives. Almost all molecular…

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are the gold standard for studying equilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems -- their phase transitions, ground and thermal state properties. However, in many interesting situations QMC methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Dominik Hangleiter , Ingo Roth , Daniel Nagaj , Jens Eisert

A Monte Carlo algorithm for computing quantum mechanical expectation values of coordinate operators in many body problems is presented. The algorithm, that relies on the forward walking method, fits naturally in a Green's Function Monte…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Casulleras , J. Boronat

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a powerful method to calculate accurate energies and forces for molecular systems. In this work, we demonstrate how we can obtain accurate QMC forces for the fluxional ethanol molecule at room temperature by…

We introduce a computational method for global optimization of structure and ordering in atomic systems. The method relies on interpolation between chemical elements, which is incorporated in a machine learning structural fingerprint. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-18 Sami Kaappa , Casper Larsen , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

In this work, we introduce three algorithmic improvements to reduce the cost and improve the scaling of orbital space variational Monte Carlo (VMC). First, we show that by appropriately screening the one- and two-electron integrals of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Iliya Sabzevari , Sandeep Sharma

We calculate the equation of state of neutron matter at zero temperature by means of the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method (AFDMC) combined with a fixed-phase approximation. The calculation of the energy is carried out by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 S. Gandolfi , A. Yu. Illarionov , K. E. Schmidt , F. Pederiva , S. Fantoni

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are first-principle approaches that approximately solve the Schr\"odinger equation stochastically. As compared to traditional quantum chemistry methods, they offer important advantages such as the ability to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Jonas Feldt , Claudia Filippi

Monte Carlo sampling is a powerful toolbox of algorithmic techniques widely used for a number of applications wherein some noisy quantity, or summary statistic thereof, is sought to be estimated. In this paper, we survey the literature for…

It is possible in principle to probe the many--atom potential surface using density functional theory (DFT). This will allow us to apply DFT to the Hamiltonian formulation of atomic motion in monatomic liquids [\textit{Phys. Rev. E} {\bf…