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We review recent advances in the shell model Monte Carlo approach for the microscopic calculation of statistical and collective properties of nuclei. We discuss applications to the calculation of (i) level densities in nickel isotopes,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-05 Y. Alhassid

Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) has emerged as a powerful framework for treating strongly correlated electronic systems, offering a favorable balance between computational cost and accuracy. In this paper, we present a novel…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Maxine Luo , Victor Chen , Yu Wang , Christian B. Mendl

The Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) algorithm is a powerful quantum many-body method that can be used successfully as an alternative to standard quantum chemistry approaches to compute the ground state of many body systems, such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Edgar Josué Landinez Borda , John A. Gomez , Miguel A. Morales

We extend correlated sampling from classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo to the quantum-classical (QC-AFQMC) framework, enabling accurate nuclear force computations crucial for geometry optimization and reaction dynamics. Stochastic…

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have proven to be valuable in the study of strongly correlated quantum systems, particularly nuclear physics and cold atomic gases. Historically, such ab initio simulations have been used to study properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-26 J. Carlson , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

We calculate the equation of state of neutron matter at zero temperature by means of the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method (AFDMC) combined with a fixed-phase approximation. The calculation of the energy is carried out by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 S. Gandolfi , A. Yu. Illarionov , K. E. Schmidt , F. Pederiva , S. Fantoni

We implement the phaseless auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo method using the plane-wave based projector augmented wave method and explore the accuracy and the feasibility of applying our implementation to solids. We use a singular value…

Variational Monte Carlo and Green's function Monte Carlo are powerful tools for calculations of properties of light nuclei using realistic two-nucleon and three-nucleon potentials. Recently the GFMC method has been extended to multiple…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven C. Pieper

A real-time path integral Monte Carlo approach is developed to study the dynamics in a many-body quantum system until reaching a nonequilibrium stationary state. The approach is based on augmenting an exact reduced equation for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lothar Mühlbacher , Eran Rabani

Deformation, a key concept in our understanding of heavy nuclei, is based on a mean-field description that breaks the rotational invariance of the nuclear many-body Hamiltonian. We present a method to analyze nuclear deformations at finite…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-07 Y. Alhassid , C. N. Gilbreth , G. F. Bertsch

The auxiliary field method is a technique to obtain approximate closed formulae for the solutions of both nonrelativistic and semirelativistic eigenequations in quantum mechanics. For a many-body Hamiltonian describing identical particles,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 C. Semay , F. Buisseret , B. Silvestre-Brac

We address the computation of ground-state properties of chemical systems and realistic materials within the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method. The phase constraint to control the fermion phase problem requires the random walks in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-28 Mario Motta , Shiwei Zhang

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

We propose a new type of Monte-Carlo method which enables us to study the excited state of many-body systems.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Masui , T. Sato

When a system undergoes a quantum phase transition, the ground-state wave-function shows a change of nature, which can be monitored using the fidelity concept. We introduce two Quantum Monte Carlo schemes that allow the computation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-21 David Schwandt , Fabien Alet , Sylvain Capponi

In this work we investigate the ground state and the dissipative quantum dynamics of interacting charged particles in an external potential at finite temperature. The recently devised time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo (TDQMC) method allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Ivan P. Christov

We discuss the Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method applied to dilute neutron matter at finite temperatures. We formulate the discrete Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation for the interaction with finite effective range which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 G. Wlazlowski , P. Magierski

A series of calculations for the first- and second-row post-d elements (Ga-Br and In-I) are presented using the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AF QMC) method. This method is formulated in a Hilbert space defined by any…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Al-Saidi , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

We introduce a variational Monte Carlo framework that combines neural-network quantum states with the Lorentz integral transform technique to compute the dynamical properties of self-bound quantum many-body systems in continuous Hilbert…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-30 Elad Parnes , Nir Barnea , Giuseppe Carleo , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco , Xilin Zhang

Finite temperature auxiliary field-based Quantum Monte Carlo methods, including Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) and Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), have historically assumed pivotal roles in the investigation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tong Shen , Yuan Liu , Yang Yu , Brenda Rubenstein