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Estimating the trace of the inverse of a large matrix is an important problem in lattice quantum chromodynamics. A multilevel Monte Carlo method is proposed for this problem that uses different degree polynomials for the levels. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-06-19 Paul Lashomb , Ronald B. Morgan , Travis Whyte , Walter Wilcox

We describe a number of strategies for minimizing and calculating accurately the statistical uncertainty in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We investigate the impact of the sampling algorithm on the efficiency of the variational Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 R. M. Lee , G. J. Conduit , N. Nemec , P. Lopez Rios , N. D. Drummond

The phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AF QMC) method [S. Zhang and H. Krakauer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136401 (2003)] is used to carry out a systematic study of the dissociation and ionization energies of second-row group 3A-7A…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-06-25 Malliga Suewattana , Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer , Eric J. Walter

To calculate excited states in quantum many-body systems, multi-configuration mixing has often been employed. However, it has been still unclear how to choose important Slater determinants from a huge model space. We propose a novel…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Takatoshi Ichikawa , Naoyuki Itagaki

The computational demand posed by applying multi-Slater determinant trials in phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo methods (MSD-AFQMC) is particularly significant for molecules exhibiting strong correlations. Here, we propose using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Hung Q. Pham , Runsheng Ouyang , Dingshun Lv

Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a stochastic approach for solving the many-body Schr\"odinger equation without resorting to one-body approximations. QMC algorithms are readily parallelizable via ensembles of $N_w$ walkers, making…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Kousuke Nakano , Sandro Sorella , Michele Casula

Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations based on highly parallelizable stochastic frameworks for accurate solutions of the many-body Schr{\"o}dinger equation, suitable for modern…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Kousuke Nakano , Stefano Battaglia , Jürg Hutter

Pricing exotic multi-asset path-dependent options requires extensive Monte Carlo simulations. In the recent years the interest to the Quasi-monte Carlo technique has been renewed and several results have been proposed in order to improve…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-01 Piergiacomo Sabino

SMC (Sequential Monte Carlo) is a class of Monte Carlo algorithms for filtering and related sequential problems. Gerber and Chopin (2015) introduced SQMC (Sequential quasi-Monte Carlo), a QMC version of SMC. This paper has two objectives:…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-19 Nicolas Chopin , Mathieu Gerber

Multiple Constant Multiplication (MCM) over integers is a frequent operation arising in embedded systems that require highly optimized hardware. An efficient way is to replace costly generic multiplication by bit-shifts and additions, i.e.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Rémi Garcia , Anastasia Volkova

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are powerful approaches for solving electronic structure problems. Although they often provide high-accuracy solutions, the precision of most QMC methods is ultimately limited by a trial wave function that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Nick S. Blunt , Laura Caune , Javiera Quiroz-Fernandez

In this paper we present computational experiments with the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Matrix Inversion ($(\text{MC})^2\text{MI}$) on several accelerator architectures and investigate their impact on performance and scalability of the method.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Anton Lebedev , Vassil Alexandrov

The VB-QMC method is presented in this chapter. It consists of using in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approaches with a wave function expressed as a usually short expansion of classical Valence-Bond (VB) structures supplemented by a Jastrow…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Slavko Radenković , Dominik Domin , Julien Toulouse , Benoît Braïda

Here we develop a new scheme of projective quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) simulation combining unbiased zero-temperature (projective) determinant QMC and variational Monte-Carlo based on Gutzwiller projection wave function, dubbed as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-08 Wei-Xuan Chang , Zi-Xiang Li

The performance of Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) strongly depends on the choice of the parameterized quantum circuit to optimize. One of the biggest challenges in VQAs is designing quantum circuits tailored to the particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Vincenzo Lipardi , Domenica Dibenedetto , Georgios Stamoulis , Mark H. M. Winands

This topical review describes the methodology of continuum variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations. These stochastic methods are based on many-body wave functions and are capable of achieving very high accuracy. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 R. J. Needs , M. D. Towler , N. D. Drummond , P. Lopez Rios

By adopting a Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) framework, we show that only a handful of costly fine scale computations are needed to accurately estimate statistics of the failure of a composite structure, as opposed to the thousands typically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-25 T. J. Dodwell , S. Kinston , R. Butler , R. T. Haftka , Nam H. Kim , R. Scheichl

We present a method for mitigating measurement errors on quantum computing platforms that does not form the full assignment matrix, or its inverse, and works in a subspace defined by the noisy input bit-strings. This method accommodates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Paul D. Nation , Hwajung Kang , Neereja Sundaresan , Jay M. Gambetta

Quantum mechanics for many-body systems may be reduced to the evaluation of integrals in 3N dimensions using Monte-Carlo, providing the Quantum Monte Carlo ab initio methods. Here we limit ourselves to expectation values for trial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-11-22 John Robert Trail , Ryo Maezono

Modern quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods often capture electron correlation through both explicitly correlating Jastrow factors and small to mid-sized configuration interaction (CI) expansions. Here, we study the additional optimization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Scott M. Garner , Eric Neuscamman