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To calculate excited states in quantum many-body systems, multi-configuration mixing has often been employed. However, it has been still unclear how to choose important Slater determinants from a huge model space. We propose a novel…

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Precise estimates of the nucleon charges $g_A$, $g_S$ and $g_T$ are needed in many phenomenological analyses of SM and BSM physics. In this talk, we present results from two sets of calculations using clover fermions on 9 ensembles of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-01-23 Rajan Gupta

We employ quantum Monte Carlo to obtain chemically accurate vertical and adiabatic excitation energies, and equilibrium excited-state structures for the small, yet challenging, formaldehyde and thioformaldehyde molecules. A key ingredient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Monika Dash , Jonas Feldt , Saverio Moroni , Anthony Scemama , Claudia Filippi

Recent developments on the determination of the spin-1/2 spectrum of the nucleon in full QCD are presented. Our focus is on the PACS-CS 2+1 flavor configurations made available through the ILDG. Using correlation matrix techniques, in which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-06-03 M. S. Mahbub , W. Kamleh , D. B. Leinweber , P. J. Moran , A. G. Williams

Understanding the properties of excited states of complex molecules is crucial for many chemical and physical processes. Calculating these properties is often significantly more resource-intensive than calculating their ground state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Manuel Hagelüken , Marco F. Huber , Marco Roth

Excited state contributions represent a formidable challenge for hadron structure calculations in lattice QCD. For physical systems that exhibit an exponential signal-to-noise problem they often hinder the extraction of ground state matrix…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-03-31 Konstantin Ottnad

We present a stable and systematically improvable quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to calculating excited-state energies, which we implement using our fast randomized iteration method for the full configuration interaction problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Samuel M. Greene , Robert J. Webber , James E. T. Smith , Jonathan Weare , Timothy C. Berkelbach

Quantum computing methods for excited-state calculations remain underexplored in Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware, despite their critical role in photochemistry and material science. Herein, we propose a resource-efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Qianjun Yao , He Li

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are first-principle approaches that approximately solve the Schr\"odinger equation stochastically. As compared to traditional quantum chemistry methods, they offer important advantages such as the ability to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Jonas Feldt , Claudia Filippi

We study the ability of a variety of fitting techniques to extract the ground state matrix elements of the vector current from ratios of nucleon three- and two-point functions that contain contaminations from excited states. Extending our…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-19 G. M. von Hippel , S. Capitani , D. Djukanovic , J. Hua , B. Jäger , P. Junnarkar , H. B. Meyer , T. D. Rae , H. Wittig

We perform excited-state variational Monte Carlo and diffusion Monte Carlo calculations using a simple and efficient wave function ansatz. This ansatz follows the recent variation-after-response formalism, accurately approximating a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-24 Nick S. Blunt , Eric Neuscamman

Utilizing quantum computer to investigate quantum chemistry is an important research field nowadays. In addition to the ground-state problems that have been widely studied, the determination of excited-states plays a crucial role in the…

Quantum state preparation is an important subroutine in many quantum algorithms. The goal is to encode classical information directly to the quantum state so that it is possible to leverage quantum algorithms for data processing. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Oskari Kerppo , William Steadman , Ossi Niemimäki , Valtteri Lahtinen

We present high statistics ($\mathcal{O}(2\times 10^5)$ measurements) preliminary results on (i) the isovector charges, $g^{u-d}_{A,S,T}$, and form factors, $G^{u-d}_E(Q^2)$, $G^{u-d}_M(Q^2)$, $G^{u-d}_A(Q^2)$, $\widetilde G^{u-d}_P(Q^2)$,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-07 Sungwoo Park , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Rajan Gupta , Yong-Chull Jang , Balint Joo , Huey-Wen Lin , Boram Yoon

The computation of excited electronic states is an important application for quantum computers. In this work, we simulate the excited state spectra of four aromatic heterocycles on IBM superconducting quantum computers, focusing on active…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Maria A. Castellanos , Mario Motta , Julia E. Rice

We present a variational Monte Carlo algorithm for estimating the lowest excited states of a quantum system which is a natural generalization of the estimation of ground states. The method has no free parameters and requires no explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 David Pfau , Simon Axelrod , Halvard Sutterud , Ingrid von Glehn , James S. Spencer

Excited states of molecules lie in the heart of photochemistry and chemical reactions. The recent development in quantum computational chemistry leads to inventions of a variety of algorithms that calculate the excited states of molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 Hiroki Kawai , Yuya O. Nakagawa

We report a high precision calculation of the isospin vector charge $g_{S,T}$ of the nucleon using recently proposed ``blending" method which provides a high-precision stochastic estimate of the all-to-all fermion propagator. Through…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-03 Ji-Hao Wang , Zhi-Cheng Hu , Xiangdong Ji , Xiangyu Jiang , Yushan Su , Peng Sun , Yi-Bo Yang

The extraction of hadron form factors in lattice QCD using the standard two- and three-point correlator functions has its limitations. One of the most commonly studied sources of systematic error is excited state contamination, which occurs…

We study the performance of all-mode-averaging (AMA) when used in conjunction with a locally deflated SAP-preconditioned solver, determining how to optimize the local block sizes and number of deflation fields in order to minimize the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-21 Georg von Hippel , Thomas D. Rae , Eigo Shintani , Hartmut Wittig