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A continuous-time formulation of the Diffusion Monte Carlo method for lattice models is presented. In its simplest version, without the explicit use of trial wavefunctions for importance sampling, the method is an excellent tool for…
We calculate potential curves for transition metal dimers using Monte Carlo configuration interaction (MCCI). These results, and their associated spectroscopic values, are compared with experimental and computational studies. The…
We report variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) studies of the binding curve of the ground-state chromium dimer. We employed various single determinant (SD) or multi-determinant (MD) wavefunctions multiplied by a…
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…
In this work, we test a recently developed method to enhance classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) calculations with quantum computers against examples from chemistry and material science, representatives of classes of…
The effectiveness of the recently developed Fixed-Node Quantum Monte Carlo method for lattice fermions, developed by van Leeuwen and co-workers, is tested by applying it to the 1D Kondo lattice, an example of a one-dimensional model with a…
We present a force-biased Monte Carlo (FMC) method for structural modeling of transition metal clusters of Fe, Ni, and Cu with 5 to 60 atoms. By employing the Finnis-Sinclair potential for Fe and the Sutton-Chen potential for Ni and Cu, the…
We study three wave function optimization methods based on energy minimization in a variational Monte Carlo framework: the Newton, linear and perturbative methods. In the Newton method, the parameter variations are calculated from the…
The Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method is applied to compute the ground state energies of the water monomer and dimer and their D 2 O isotopomers using MB-pol; the most recent and most accurate ab inito- based potential energy surface…
Recently developed neural network-based \emph{ab-initio} solutions (Pfau et. al arxiv:1909.02487v2) for finding ground states of fermionic systems can generate state-of-the-art results on a broad class of systems. In this work, we improve…
A method is developed that allows analysis of quantum Monte Carlo simulations to identify errors in trial wave functions. The purpose of this method is to allow for the systematic improvement of variational wave functions by identifying…
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…
We study beryllium dihydride (BeH$_2$) and acetylene (C$_2$H$_2$) molecules using real-space diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method. The molecules serve as perhaps the simplest prototypes that illustrate the difficulties with biases in the…
Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) and coupled cluster theory [CCSD(T)] are widely-employed benchmark methods for noncovalent interactions (NCIs). However, recent studies have reported notable discrepancies across several hydrogen-bonded…
In this work we present a detailed study of the Fermion Monte Carlo algorithm (FMC), a recently proposed stochastic method for calculating fermionic ground-state energies [M.H. Kalos and F. Pederiva, Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 85, 3547 (2000)].…
Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations typically yield highly accurate results in solid-state and quantum-chemical calculations. However, operators that do not commute with the Hamiltonian are at best sampled correctly up to second order…
We have applied the many-body ab-initio diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) method to study Zn and ZnO crystals under pressure, and the energetics of the oxygen vacancy, zinc interstitial and hydrogen impurities in ZnO. We show that DMC is…
The method of Monte Carlo configuration interaction (MCCI) [1,2] is applied to the calculation of multipole moments. We look at the ground and excited state dipole moments in carbon monoxide. We then consider the dipole of NO, the…
Diffusion models may be formulated as a time-indexed sequence of energy-based models, where the score corresponds to the negative gradient of an energy function. As opposed to learning the score directly, an energy parameterization is…
The diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC), auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), and equation-of-motion coupled cluster (EOM-CC) methods are used to calculate the electron binding energy (EBE) of the non-valence anion state of a model…