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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

We demonstrate the use of a variational method to determine a quantitative lower bound on the rate of convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms as a function of the target density and proposal density. The bound relies on…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-05-29 Fergal P. Casey , Joshua J. Waterfall , Ryan N. Gutenkunst , Christopher R. Myers , James P. Sethna

On the base of Diffusion Monte-Carlo method it is developed a new Complex Diffusion Monte-Carlo (CDMC) method allowing to simulate the quantum systems with complex wave function. There are no approximations on the calculation of modulus and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Abdullaev , M. Musakhanov , A. Nakamura

Here, a dichotomy of particles and waves is employed in a quantum Monte Carlo calculation of interacting electrons. Through the creation and propagation of concurrent stochastic ensembles of walkers in physical space and in Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Ivan P. Christov

We study a harmonically confined Bose-Bose mixture using quantum Monte Carlo methods. Our results for the density profiles are systematically compared with mean-field predictions derived through the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the same…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-09-12 V. Cikojevic , L. Vranjes Markic , J. Boronat

Computer simulation plays a central role in modern day materials science. The utility of a given computational approach depends largely on the balance it provides between accuracy and computational cost. Molecular crystals are a class of…

Uncertainty estimation in deep models is essential in many real-world applications and has benefited from developments over the last several years. Recent evidence suggests that existing solutions dependent on simple Gaussian formulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jurijs Nazarovs , Ronak R. Mehta , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande , Vikas Singh

Adaptive importance sampling (AIS) methods provide a useful alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for performing inference of intractable distributions. Population Monte Carlo (PMC) algorithms constitute a family of AIS…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-13 Soumyasundar Pal , Antonios Valkanas , Mark Coates

Importance sampling (IS) is a powerful Monte Carlo (MC) technique for approximating intractable integrals, for instance in Bayesian inference. The performance of IS relies heavily on the appropriate choice of the so-called proposal…

Computation · Statistics 2024-12-30 Ali Mousavi , Víctor Elvira

We use a diffusion Monte Carlo method to solve the many-body Schr\"odinger equation describing fully-heavy tetraquark systems. This approach allows to reduce the uncertainty of the numerical calculation at the percent level, accounts for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 M. C. Gordillo , F. De Soto , J. Segovia

Full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) is a stochastic approach for finding the ground state of a quantum many-body Hamiltonian. It is based on the dynamical evolution of a walker population in Hilbert space, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-04 Mingrui Yang , Elke Pahl , Joachim Brand

We provide a pedagogical introduction to the two main variants of real-space quantum Monte Carlo methods for electronic-structure calculations: variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC). Assuming no prior knowledge on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Julien Toulouse , Roland Assaraf , C. J. Umrigar

Dynamic treatment regimens (DTRs), also known as treatment algorithms or adaptive interventions, play an increasingly important role in many health domains. DTRs are motivated to address the unique and changing needs of individuals by…

Diffusion limits of MCMC methods in high dimensions provide a useful theoretical tool for studying computational complexity. In particular, they lead directly to precise estimates of the number of steps required to explore the target…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Jonathan C. Mattingly , Natesh S. Pillai , Andrew M. Stuart

Properties that are necessarily formulated within pure (symmetric) expectation values are difficult to calculate for projector quantum Monte Carlo approaches, but are critical in order to compute many of the important observable properties…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Catherine Overy , George H. Booth , N. S. Blunt , James Shepherd , Deidre Cleland , Ali Alavi

The diffusion Monte Carlo method is applied to describe a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature, fully quantum mechanically and nonperturbatively. For low densities, $n(0)a^3 \le 2 \cdot 10^{-3}$ [n(0): peak density,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Blume , Chris H. Greene

We develop a formalism and present an algorithm for optimization of the trial wave-function used in fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) methods. We take advantage of a basic property of the walker configuration distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fernando A. Reboredo , Randolph Q. Hood , Paul R. C. Kent

We modify the reweighting factor of the projector used in diffusion Monte Carlo to reduce the time-step error of the total energy. Further, we present a reweighting scheme that has the desirable feature that it is exactly size-consistent,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Tyler A. Anderson , Manolo C. Per , C. J. Umrigar

The real-space variation quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) are used to calculate the quasiparticle energy bands and the quasiparticle effective mass of the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-07 S. Azadi , N. D. Drummond , A. Principi , R. V. Belosludov , M. S. Bahramy

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