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We present a method to extrapolate nuclear binding energies from known values for neighbouring nuclei. We select four specific mass relations constructed to eliminate smooth variation of the binding energy as function nucleon numbers. The…

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We present unbiased, finite--variance estimators of energy derivatives for real--space diffusion Monte Carlo calculations within the fixed--node approximation. The derivative $d_\lambda E$ is fully consistent with the dependence…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-20 Jesse van Rhijn , Claudia Filippi , Stefania De Palo , Saverio Moroni

We study the approximation of $\mathbb{E}f(X_T)$ by a Monte Carlo algorithm, where $X$ is the solution of a stochastic differential equation and $f$ is a given function. We introduce a new variance reduction method, which can be viewed as a…

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Quantum Monte Carlo methods find fruitful application in large shell model problems. These methods reduce the imaginary-time many-body evolution operator to a coherent superposition of one-body evolutions in a fluctuating one-body field;…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 S. E. Koonin

Nuclear level densities are crucial for estimating statistical nuclear reaction rates. The shell model Monte Carlo method is a powerful approach for microscopic calculation of state densities in very large model spaces. However, these state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-29 Y. Alhassid , M. Bonett-Matiz , S. Liu , H. Nakada

We propose an algorithm for molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations that uses an interpolation procedure to estimate potential energy values from energies and gradients evaluated previously at points of a simplicial mesh. We chose an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-07 Konstantin Karandashev , Jiri Vanicek

We propose a variational calculation scheme utilizing the superposition of the angular-momentum, parity, number projected quasiparticle vacua, that is especially suitable for applying to medium-heavy nuclei in shell-model calculations. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 Noritaka Shimizu , Yusuke Tsunoda , Yutaka Utsuno , Takaharu Otsuka

The shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) method is a powerful technique for calculating the statistical and collective properties of nuclei in the presence of correlations in model spaces that are many orders of magnitude larger than those that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. Alhassid , M. Bonett-Matiz , A. Mukherjee , H. Nakada , C. Özen

This work introduces meta estimators that combine multiple multifidelity techniques based on control variates, importance sampling, and information reuse to yield a quasi-multiplicative amount of variance reduction. The proposed meta…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Frederick Law , Antoine Cerfon , Benjamin Peherstorfer , Florian Wechsung

In particle physics, it is needed to evaluate the possibility that excesses of events in mass spectra are due to statistical fluctuations as quantified by the standards of local and global significances. Without prior knowledge of a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-22 Liangliang Chen , Yufei Chen , Gerry Bauer , Leonard G. Spiegel , Zhen Hu , Kai Yi

The microscopic calculation of nuclear level densities in the presence of correlations is a difficult many-body problem. The shell model Monte Carlo method provides a powerful technique to carry out such calculations using the framework of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-27 Y. Alhassid , C. Özen , H. Nakada

In this paper, we propose and analyze the extrapolation method and asymptotically exact a posterior error estimate for eigenvalues of the Morley element. We establish an asymptotic expansion of eigenvalues, and prove an optimal result for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Limin Ma , Shudan Tian

The optimization of neural wave functions in variational Monte Carlo crucially relies on a robust convergence criterion. While the energy variance is theoretically a definitive measure, its practical application as a primary convergence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Huan-Chen Shi , Er-Liang Cui , Dan Zhou

In this paper, an alternative method to range-separated linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory and perturbation theory is proposed to improve the estimation of the energies of a physical system from the energies of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Elisa Rebolini , Julien Toulouse , Andrew M. Teale , Trygve Helgaker , Andreas Savin

A novel approach to obtain the excitation spectrum of nuclei is presented as well as its proof-of-principle. The Monte Carlo Shell Model is extended so that the excitation spectrum can be calculated from its ground state with full of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-02 Takaharu Otsuka , Tomoaki Togashi , Noritaka Shimizu , Yutaka Utsuno , Toshio Suzuki

In ab initio nuclear structure theory, accurately predicting electromagnetic observables, such as moments and transition rates, is essential for a comprehensive understanding of nuclear properties. However, computational limitations and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Marco Knöll , Marc L. Agel , Tobias Wolfgruber , Pieter Maris , Robert Roth

We review recent advances in the shell model Monte Carlo approach for the microscopic calculation of statistical and collective properties of nuclei. We discuss applications to the calculation of (i) level densities in nickel isotopes,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-05 Y. Alhassid

In the regime where traditional approaches to electronic structure cannot afford to achieve accurate energy differences via exhaustive wave function flexibility, rigorous approaches to balancing different states' accuracies become…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Paul J. Robinson , Sergio D. Pineda Flores , Eric Neuscamman

We introduce a novel method within the shell model Monte Carlo approach to calculate the ground-state energy of a finite-size system with an odd number of particles by using the asymptotic behavior of the imaginary-time single-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Abhishek Mukherjee , Y. Alhassid

Monte-Carlo simulations are routinely used for estimating the scaling exponents of complex systems. However, due to finite-size effects, determining the exponent values is often difficult and not reliable. Here we present a novel technique…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Jaan Kalda