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Fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is a stochastic algorithm for finding the lowest energy many-fermion wave function with the same nodal surface as a chosen trial function. It has proved itself among the most accurate methods available…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 W. M. C. Foulkes , Randolph Q. Hood , R. J. Needs

We use an auxiliary-field Monte Carlo (AFMC) method to calculate thermodynamic properties (spin susceptibility and heat capacity) of ultra-small metallic grains in the presence of pairing correlations. This method allows us to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Alhassid , L. Fang , S. Schmidt

We propose a quantum Monte Carlo approach to solve the ground state many-body Schrodinger equation for the electronic ground state. The method combines optimization from variational Monte Carlo and propagation from auxiliary field quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Yixiao Chen , Linfeng Zhang , Weinan E , Roberto Car

Accurately and efficiently estimating system performance under uncertainty is paramount in power system planning and operation. Monte Carlo simulation is often used for this purpose, but convergence may be slow, especially when detailed…

Computation · Statistics 2020-10-23 Simon Tindemans , Goran Strbac

Recent work has deployed linear combinations of unitaries techniques to reduce the cost of fault-tolerant quantum simulations of correlated electron models. Here, we show that one can sometimes improve upon those results with optimized…

In numerical simulations, spontaneously broken symmetry is often detected by computing two-point correlation functions of the appropriate local order parameter. This approach, however, computes the square of the local order parameter, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-02 Fakher F. Assaad , Igor F. Herbut

We address the calculation of dynamical correlation functions for many fermion systems at zero temperature, using the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method. The two-dimensional Hubbard hamiltonian is used as a model system. Although…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Ettore Vitali , Hao Shi , Mingpu Qin , Shiwei Zhang

Ultracold-atom simulations of the Hubbard model provide insights into the character of charge and spin correlations in and out of equilibrium. The corresponding numerical simulations, on the other hand, remain a significant challenge. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-25 Veljko Janković , Jakša Vučičević

Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

Entanglement asymmetry provides a quantitative measure of symmetry breaking in many-body quantum states. Focusing on inhomogeneous $U(1)$ charges, such as dipole and multipole moments, we show that the typical asymmetry is bounded by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-10 Lorenzo Gotta , Filiberto Ares , Sara Murciano

Ground-state auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) methods have become key numerical tools for studying quantum phases and phase transitions in interacting many-fermion systems. Despite the broad applicability, the efficiency of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Hao Du , Yuan-Yao He

The use of an approximate reference state wave function |Phi_r> in electronic many-body methods can break the spin symmetry of Born-Oppenheimer spin-independent Hamiltonians. This can result in significant errors, especially when bonds are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 Wirawan Purwanto , W. A. Al-Saidi , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

The canonical one-band Hubbard model is studied using a computational method that mixes the Monte Carlo procedure with the mean field approximation. This technique allows us to incorporate thermal fluctuations and the development of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-25 Anamitra Mukherjee , Niravkumar D. Patel , Shuai Dong , Steve Johnston , Adriana Moreo , Elbio Dagotto

We propose using the wave function generated by the quantum selected configuration interaction (QSCI) method as the trial wave function in phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC). In the QSCI framework, electronic…

We present a method for calculating first-order response properties in phaseless auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) through the application of automatic differentiation (AD). Biases and statistical efficiency of the resulting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Ankit Mahajan , Jo S. Kurian , Joonho Lee , David R. Reichman , Sandeep Sharma

To make useful connections with experimental measurements, correlated electronic structure theories must accurately predict chemical properties in addition to energies. We present a finite-difference based algorithm to compute first-order…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Leon Otis , Sri Gudivada , Marvin Friede , James Shee

In order to investigate the effects of nonmagnetic impurities in strongly correlated systems, Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations have been carried out for the doped two-dimensional Hubbard model with one nonmagnetic impurity. Using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Bulut

Simulating the dynamics of quantum systems is an important application of quantum computers and has seen a variety of implementations on current hardware. We show that by introducing quantum gates implementing unitary transformations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Minh C. Tran , Yuan Su , Daniel Carney , Jacob M. Taylor

Building on recent solutions of the fermion sign problem for specific models we present two continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo methods for efficient simulation of mass-imbalanced Hubbard models on bipartite lattices at half-filling. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-18 Ye-Hua Liu , Lei Wang

Symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy provides a powerful framework for probing the internal structure of quantum many-body states by decomposing entanglement into contributions from distinct symmetry sectors. In this work, we apply matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Mark J. Arildsen , Valentin Crépel , Nicolas Regnault , Benoit Estienne