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The essence of atomic structure theory, quantum chemistry, and computational materials science is solving the multi-electron stationary Schr\"odinger equation. The Quantum Monte Carlo-based neural network wave function method has surpassed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 JinDe Liu , Chenglong Qin , Xi He , Gang Jiang

Variational calculations of excited electronic states are carried out by finding saddle points on the surface that describes how the energy of the system varies as a function of the electronic degrees of freedom. This approach has several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi , Hannes Jónsson

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{93}, 130401 (2004)], we proposed the idea of expanding the space of variations in variational calculations of the energy by considering the approximate wave function $\psi$ to be a functional of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Yin Pan , Viraht Sahni , Lou Massa

A more reasonable trial ground state wave function is constructed for the relative motion of an interacting two-fermion system in a 1D harmonic potential. At the boundaries both the wave function and its first derivative are continuous and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-06 Yanxia Liu , Jun Ye , Yuanyuan Li , Yunbo Zhang

The nodal structure of bound-state wave functions for one-dimensional quantum systems with quartic energy-momentum dispersion and polynomial potentials is analysed by using the semiclassical approximation and variational approach. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-06 E. V. Gorbar , B. E. Grinyuk , V. P. Gusynin

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

We propose an algorithm to obtain the ground-state energy of a many-electron system using the variational wave function of a linear combination of antisymmetrized geminal powers. We optimized this algorithm to obtain the energy and the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Wataru Uemura , Takahito Nakajima

We present a formulation of excited state mean-field theory in which the derivatives with respect to the wave function parameters needed for wave function optimization (not to be confused with nuclear derivatives) are expressed analytically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Luning Zhao , Eric Neuscamman

Variational optimization of orbitals in time-independent density functional calculations of excited electronic states presents a significant challenge, as excited states typically correspond to saddle points on the electronic energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Elli Selenius , Gianluca Levi

An exchange energy functional is proposed and tested for obtaining a class of excited-state energies using density-functional formalism. The functional is the excited-state counterpart of the local-density approximation functional for the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Prasanjit Samal , Manoj K. Harbola

A quantum Monte Carlo method is presented for determining multi-determinantal Jastrow-Slater wave functions for which the energy is stationary with respect to the simultaneous optimization of orbitals and configuration interaction…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Friedemann Schautz , Claudia Filippi

A method is introduced to optimize excited state trial wave functions. The method is applied to ground and vibrationally excited states of bosonic van der Waals clusters of upto seven particles. Employing optimized trial wavefunctions with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Nightingale , Vilen Melik-Alaverdian

In the regime where traditional approaches to electronic structure cannot afford to achieve accurate energy differences via exhaustive wave function flexibility, rigorous approaches to balancing different states' accuracies become…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Paul J. Robinson , Sergio D. Pineda Flores , Eric Neuscamman

The method of analytic continuation is used to find exact integral equations for a selection of finite-volume energy levels for the non-unitary minimal models $M_{2,2N+3}$ perturbed by their $\varphi_{13}$ operators. The N=2 case is studied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Patrick Dorey , Roberto Tateo

We explore the possibility of calculating electronic excited states by using perturbation theory along a range-separated adiabatic connection. Starting from the energies of a partially interacting Hamiltonian, a first-order correction is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Elisa Rebolini , Julien Toulouse , Andrew M. Teale , Trygve Helgaker , Andreas Savin

Excited state decay is examined within the framework of strictly Everett-like (SEL) formulations of quantum mechanics. Even though these formulations were developed for systems of particles as part of a larger system that includes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Jon Geist

The Hubbard model is a challenging quantum many-body problem and serves as a benchmark for quantum computing research. Accurate computation of its ground and excited state energies is essential for understanding correlated electron systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Mrinal Dev , Bikash K. Behera , Vivek Vyas , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We examine applicability of the valence bond basis correlator product state ansatz, equivalent to the restricted Boltzmann machine quantum artificial neural network ansatz, and variational Monte Carlo method for direct optimization of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Tanja Duric , Tomislav Seva

n a recent paper we proposed the expansion of the space of variations in energy calculations by considering the approximate wave function $\psi$ to be a functional of functions $\chi: \psi = \psi[\chi]$ rather than a function. For the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Yin Pan , Viraht Sahni , Lou Massa

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