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We present a study of spin-unpolarized and spin-polarized two-dimensional uniform electron liquids using variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) methods with Slater-Jastrow-backflow trial wave functions. Ground-state VMC…

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We develop a variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method for electron-phonon coupled systems. The VMC method has been extensively used for investigating strongly correlated electrons over the last decades. However, its applications to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-02 Takahiro Ohgoe , Masatoshi Imada

An algorithm is proposed to optimize quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) wave functions based on New ton's method and analytical computation of the first and second derivatives of the variati onal energy. This direct application of the variational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Xi Lin , Hongkai Zhang , Andrew M. Rappe

A time-dependent vibrational electronic coupled-cluster (VECC) approach is proposed to simulate photoelectron/ UV-VIS absorption spectra, as well as time-dependent properties for non-adiabatic vibronic models, going beyond the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Songhao Bao , Neil Raymond , Marcel Nooijen

We use a variational Monte Carlo algorithm to solve the electronic structure of two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots in external magnetic field. We present accurate many-body wave functions for the system in various magnetic field…

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Simulating strongly correlated fermionic systems remains a fundamental challenge in quantum physics, largely due to the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. We present a neural network-based variational Monte Carlo (NN-VMC)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 William Freitas , B. Abreu , S. A. Vitiello

Certain point defects in solids can efficiently be used as qubits for applications in quantum technology. They have spin states that are initializable, readable, robust, and can be manipulated optically. New theoretical methods are needed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Kristoffer Simula , Ilja Makkonen

We explore the use in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) of trial wave functions consisting of a Jastrow factor multiplied by a truncated configuration-interaction (CI) expansion in Slater determinants obtained from a CI perturbatively selected…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-01-25 Emmanuel Giner , Roland Assaraf , Julien Toulouse

mVMC (many-variable Variational Monte Carlo) is an open-source software based on the variational Monte Carlo method applicable for a wide range of Hamiltonians for interacting fermion systems. In mVMC, we introduce more than ten thousands…

The conventional tensor-network states employ real-space product states as reference wave functions. Here, we propose a many-variable variational Monte Carlo (mVMC) method combined with tensor networks by taking advantages of both to study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Hui-Hai Zhao , Kota Ido , Satoshi Morita , Masatoshi Imada

We provide a pedagogical introduction to the two main variants of real-space quantum Monte Carlo methods for electronic-structure calculations: variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC). Assuming no prior knowledge on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Julien Toulouse , Roland Assaraf , C. J. Umrigar

In this paper, we solve quantum many-body problem by propagating ensembles of trajectories and guiding waves in physical space. We introduce the 'effective potential' correction within the recently proposed time-dependent quantum Monte…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Ivan P. Christov

We present high-accuracy correlated calculations of small Si$_x$H$_y$ molecular systems both in the ground and excited states. We employ quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) together with a variety of many-body wave function approaches based on basis…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Guangming Wang , Abdulgani Annaberdiyev , Lubos Mitas

Polarizable Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) approaches based on fluctuating charges and dipoles (QM/FQ(F$\mu$)) are formulated within the state-specific Vertical Excitation Model (VEM) to compute vertical excitation energies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Chiara Sepali , Piero Lafiosca , Linda Goletto , Tommaso Giovannini , Chiara Cappelli

We review the use of continuum quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for the calculation of energy gaps from first principles, and present a broad set of excited-state calculations carried out with the variational and fixed-node diffusion QMC…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Ryan J. Hunt , Marcin Szyniszewski , Genki I. Prayogo , Ryo Maezono , Neil D. Drummond

We examine the application of the Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method to a cluster model for halo nuclei. Particular attention is paid to the error estimate in the presence of correlations in the underlying random walk. We analyse the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Theodoros Leontiou , Niels R. Walet

By using stochastic ensembles of walkers in physical and in one-body Hilbert spaces the recently proposed time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo (TDQMC) method offers the unique capability to calculate one-body density matrices at fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Ivan P. Christov

We present a modification to variational Monte Carlo's linear method optimization scheme that addresses a critical memory bottleneck while maintaining compatibility with both the traditional ground state variational principle and our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-07 Luning Zhao , Eric Neuscamman

We introduce a new method to simulate the physics of rare events. The method, an extension of the Temperature Accelerated Molecular Dynamics, comes in use when the collective variables introduced to characterize the rare events are either…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Giovanni Ciccotti , Simone Meloni

TurboRVB is a computational package for {\it ab initio} Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of both molecular and bulk electronic systems. The code implements two types of well established QMC algorithms: Variational Monte Carlo (VMC),…