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In the last few years we have been developing a Monte Carlo simulation method to cope with systems of many electrons and ions in the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation, the Coupled Electron-Ion Monte Carlo Method (CEIMC). Electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Pierleoni , David M. Ceperley

The Riccati-type nonlinear differential equation, also known as the Variable Phase Approach or Phase Function Method, is used to construct local inverse potentials for the \( ^3S_1 \) and \( ^1S_0 \) states of the deuteron. The Morse…

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Many recent advances in large scale probabilistic inference rely on variational methods. The success of variational approaches depends on (i) formulating a flexible parametric family of distributions, and (ii) optimizing the parameters to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-22 Christian A. Naesseth , Scott W. Linderman , Rajesh Ranganath , David M. Blei

We report state-of-the-art quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the singlet $n \to \pi^*$ (CO) vertical excitation energy in the acrolein molecule, extending the recent study of Bouab\c{c}a {\it et al.} [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 130}, 114107…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-12-24 Julien Toulouse , Michel Caffarel , Peter Reinhardt , Philip E. Hoggan , C. J. Umrigar

We explore Davidson methods for obtaining excitation energies and other linear response properties within quantum self-consistent linear response (q-sc-LR) theory. Davidson-type methods allow for obtaining only a few selected excitation…

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 computational model is presented to calculate the ground state energy of neutral and charged excitons confined in semiconductor quantum dots. The model is based on the variational Quantum Monte Carlo method and effective mass…

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We present a variational Monte Carlo (VMC) formulation for the universal equations of state at the Van der Waals length scale [B. Gao, J. Phys. B \textbf{37}, L227 (2004)] for $N$ Bose atoms in a trap. The theory illustrates both how such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Imran Khan , Bo Gao

We present a concurrent Monte Carlo (MC) - molecular dynamics (MD) approach to modeling of matter response to excitation of its electronic system. The two methods are combined on-the-fly at each time step in one code, TREKIS-4. The MC model…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-17 N. Medvedev , F. Akhmetov , R. A. Rymzhanov , R. Voronkov , A. E. Volkov

In this article, we report a fully ab initio variational Monte Carlo study of the linear, and periodic chain of Hydrogen atoms, a prototype system providing the simplest example of strong electronic correlation in low dimensions. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 Lorenzo Stella , Claudio Attaccalite , Sandro Sorella , Angel Rubio

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

Neural-network variational Monte Carlo (NNVMC) has emerged as a powerful tool for solving quantum many-body problems, yet systematic pathways for improving its accuracy remain largely heuristic. Here, we introduce a physically motivated…

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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

Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations based on highly parallelizable stochastic frameworks for accurate solutions of the many-body Schr{\"o}dinger equation, suitable for modern…

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The real-space variation quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) are used to calculate the quasiparticle energy bands and the quasiparticle effective mass of the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic two-dimensional…

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We propose a Multilevel Monte-Carlo (MLMC) method for computing entropy measure valued solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws. Sharp bounds for the narrow convergence of MLMC for the entropy measure valued solutions are proposed. An…

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A variational Monte Carlo method is used to generate sets of orthogonal trial functions, Psi_T(J^pi,T), for given quantum numbers in various light p-shell nuclei. These Psi_T are then used as input to Green's function Monte Carlo…

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Valence excitation spectra are computed for all deep-center silicon-vacancy defect types in 3C, 4H, and 6H silicon carbide (SiC) and comparisons are made with literature photoluminescence measurements. Nuclear geometries surrounding the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Jesse J. Lutz , Xiaofeng F. Duan , Larry W. Burggraf

In single-reference coupled-cluster (CC) methods, one has to solve a set of non-linear polynomial equations in order to determine the so-called amplitudes which are then used to compute the energy and other properties. Although it is of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Antoine Marie , Fábris Kossoski , Pierre-François Loos