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A form of Jastrow factor is introduced for use in quantum Monte Carlo simulations of finite and periodic systems. Test data are presented for atoms, molecules, and solids, including both all-electron and pseudopotential atoms. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-01-03 N. D. Drummond , M. D. Towler , R. J. Needs

Many quantum many-body wavefunctions, such as Jastrow-Slater, tensor network, and neural quantum states, are studied with the variational Monte Carlo technique, where stochastic optimization is usually performed to obtain a faithful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-21 Ruojing Peng , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We have employed the steepest descent method to optimise the variational ground state quantum Monte Carlo wave function for He, Li, Be, B and C atoms. We have used both the direct energy minimisation and the variance minimisation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Ebrahim Foulaadvand , Mohammad Zarenia

The variational Monte Carlo method is used to find the ground state of six quarks confined to a cavity of diameter R_c, interacting via an assumed non-relativistic constituent quark model (CQM) Hamiltonian. We use a flux-tube model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Mark W. Paris , Vijay R. Pandharipande

We develop a time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (t-VMC) method for quantum dynamics of strongly correlated electrons. The t-VMC method has been recently applied to bosonic systems and quantum spin systems. Here, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-22 Kota Ido , Takahiro Ohgoe , Masatoshi Imada

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods can very accurately compute ground state properties of quantum systems. We applied these methods to a system of boson hard spheres to get exact, infinite system size results for the ground state at several…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Mark Dewing

We introduce a novel many body method which combines two powerful many body techniques, viz., quantum Monte Carlo and coupled cluster theory. Coupled cluster wave functions are introduced as importance functions in a Monte Carlo method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-04 Alessandro Roggero , Abhishek Mukherjee , Francesco Pederiva

Electronic structure of the manganese oxide solid is studied by the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. The trial wavefunctions are built using orbitals from unrestricted Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Theory, and the electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ji-Woo Lee , Lubos Mitas , Lucas K. Wagner

We study one-dimensional quantum gases in continuous space with cavity-mediated infinite-range interactions using variational and diffusion Monte Carlo methods. Starting from the exact two-body solution, we construct a non-translationally…

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

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations are performed on the monocyclic and bicyclic forms of m-benzyne, which are the equilibrium structures at the CCSD(T) and CCSD levels of coupled cluster theory. We employed multi-configuration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. A. Al-Saidi , C. J. Umrigar

We use a variational Monte Carlo algorithm to solve the electronic structure of two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots in external magnetic field. We present accurate many-body wave functions for the system in various magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ari Harju

Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a state-of-the-art numerical approach for evaluating accurate expectation values of many-body wavefunctions. However, one of the major drawbacks that still hinders widespread QMC applications is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-17 Kousuke Nakano , Michele Casula , Giacomo Tenti

Computation of ionic forces using quantum Monte Carlo methods has long been a challenge. We introduce a simple procedure, based on known properties of physical electronic densities, to make the variance of the Hellmann-Feynman estimator…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simone Chiesa , David Ceperley , Shiwei Zhang

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) is a powerful and fast-growing method for optimizing and evolving parameterized many-body wave functions, especially with modern neural-network quantum states. In practice, however, the stochastic estimators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Zhou-Quan Wan , Roeland Wiersema , Shiwei Zhang

Atomic forces are calculated for first-row monohydrides and carbon monoxide within electronic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). Accurate and efficient forces are achieved by using an improved method for moving variational parameters in variational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Myung Won Lee , Massimo Mella , Andrew M. Rappe

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

An interesting question in physics is how the correlation energy of atoms evolves upon forming a solid. Here, we address this problem for a specific case of double-layer FeSe. We used many-body wavefunction-based quantum Monte Carlo (QMC)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-19 S. Azadi , A. Principi , R. V. Belosludov , T. D. Kühne , M. S. Bahramy

An algorithm is proposed to optimize quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) wave functions based on New ton's method and analytical computation of the first and second derivatives of the variati onal energy. This direct application of the variational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Xi Lin , Hongkai Zhang , Andrew M. Rappe

A variational Monte Carlo method for bosonic lattice models is introduced. The method is based on the Baeriswyl projected wavefunction. The Baeriswyl wavefunction consists of a kinetic energy based projection applied to the wavefunction at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-27 B. Hetényi , B. Tanatar , L. M. Martelo