English
Related papers

Related papers: Particle-wave dichotomy in quantum Monte Carlo: un…

200 papers

We develop a Monte Carlo wave function algorithm for the quantum linear Boltzmann equation, a Markovian master equation describing the quantum motion of a test particle interacting with the particles of an environmental background gas. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Marc Busse , Piotr Pietrulewicz , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Klaus Hornberger

We study evolution of a quantum particle in a harmonic potential whose position and momentum are repeatedly monitored. A back-action of measuring devices is accounted for. Our model utilizes a generalized measurement corresponding to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Filip Gampel , Mariusz Gajda

A self-contained and tutorial presentation of the diffusion Monte Carlo method for determining the ground state energy and wave function of quantum systems is provided. First, the theoretical basis of the method is derived and then a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ioan Kosztin , Byron Faber , Klaus Schulten

Compact and accurate wave functions can be constructed by quantum Monte Carlo methods. Typically, these wave functions consist of a sum of a small number of Slater determinants multiplied by a Jastrow factor. In this paper we study the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Chien-Jung Huang , C. J. Umrigar , M. P. Nightingale

We introduce a `virtual-move' Monte Carlo (VMMC) algorithm for systems of pairwise-interacting particles. This algorithm facilitates the simulation of particles possessing attractions of short range and arbitrary strength and geometry, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen Whitelam , Phillip L. Geissler

The sampling of the configuration space in diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is done using walkers moving randomly. In a previous work on the Hubbard model [\href{https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.60.2299}{Assaraf et al.~Phys.~Rev.~B \textbf{60},…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-19 Roland Assaraf , Emmanuel Giner , Vijay Gopal Chilkuri , Pierre-François Loos , Anthony Scemama , Michel Caffarel

We describe collective-move Monte Carlo algorithms designed to approximate the overdamped dynamics of self-assembling nanoscale components equipped with strong, short-ranged and anisotropic interactions. Conventional Monte Carlo simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-16 Stephen Whitelam

We introduce a Monte-Carlo algorithm for the simulation of charged particles moving in the continuum. Electrostatic interactions are not instantaneous as in conventional approaches, but are mediated by a constrained, diffusing electric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg Rottler , A. C. Maggs

We explore correlated electron states in harmonically confined few-electron quantum dots in an external magnetic field by the path-integral Monte Carlo method for a wide range of the field and the Coulomb interaction strength. Using the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-07 Csaba Tőke , Tamás Haidekker Galambos

We present a Monte Carlo wavefunction method for semiclassically modeling spin-$\frac12$ systems in a magnetic field gradient in one dimension. Our model resolves the conflict of determining what classical force an atom should be subjected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-25 C. J. Billington , C. J. Watkins , R. P. Anderson , L. D. Turner

The interaction and exchange-correlation contributions to the ground-state energy of an arbitrary many-electron system can be obtained from a spherical average of the wavevector-dependent diagonal structure factor (SF). We model the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Gaudoin , J. M. Pitarke

Entanglement of spatial bipartitions, used to explore lattice models in condensed matter physics, may be insufficient to fully describe itinerant quantum many-body systems in the continuum. We introduce a procedure to measure the R\'enyi…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-23 C. M. Herdman , P. -N. Roy , R. G. Melko , A. Del Maestro

The non-linear response of a beam splitter to the coincident arrival of interacting particles enables numerous applications in quantum engineering and metrology yet poses considerable challenge to achieve focused interactions on the…

Quantum mechanical many-electron calculations can predict properties of atoms, molecules and even complex materials. The employed computational methods play a quintessential role in many scientifically and technologically relevant research…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Tobias Schäfer , Andreas Irmler , Alejandro Gallo , Andreas Grüneis

Monte Carlo evaluation is used to calculate heavy-ion elastic scattering including the center-of-mass correction and the Coulomb interaction.Angular distributions are presented for a number of nuclear pairs over a wide energy range using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 W. R. Gibbs , Jean-Pierre Dedonder

We describe and discuss a recently proposed quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to compute the ground-state properties of various systems of interacting fermions. In this method, the ground state is projected from an initial wave function by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Shiwei Zhang , J. Carlson , J. E. Gubernatis

We generalize Bohr's complementarity principle for wave and particle properties to arbitrary quantum systems. We begin by noting that a particle-like state is represented by a spatially-localized wave function and its narrow probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 J. A. Vaccaro

The extremely fascinating behaviors of the quantum walks of particles, which differ much from the classical counterparts, have attracted many physicists. Here we investigate another interesting part of the quantum walks, that is the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Tian-Li Feng , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Guang-Ming Zhao , Sheng Liu , Guang-Can Guo

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are one of the most important tools for studying interacting quantum many-body systems. The vast majority of QMC calculations in interacting fermion systems require a constraint to control the sign problem.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-08 Mingpu Qin , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

Many strongly correlated states, such as those arising in the fractional quantum Hall effect and spin liquids, are described by wave functions obtained by dividing particles into multiple clusters, constructing a readily evaluable wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-24 Koyena Bose , Steven H. Simon , Ajit C. Balram