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We assess numerical stabilization methods employed in fermion many-body quantum Monte Carlo simulations. In particular, we empirically compare various matrix decomposition and inversion schemes to gain control over numerical instabilities…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Carsten Bauer

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) is a numeric technique that allows one to calculate quantities specified in terms of diagrammatic expansions, the latter being a standard tool of many-body quantum statistics. The sign problem that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-18 Kris Van Houcke , Evgeny Kozik , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

A simple and stable method for computing accurate expectation values of observable with Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) or Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) algorithms is presented. The basic idea consists in replacing the usual ``bare'' estimator…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roland Assaraf , Michel Caffarel

A two level sampling method is applied to variational Monte Carlo (VMC) that samples the one and two body parts of the wave function separately. The method is demonstrated on a single Li_2 molecule in free space and 32 H_2 molecules in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Mark Dewing

Neural Network Variational Monte Carlo (NNVMC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for solving quantum many-body problems by combining variational Monte Carlo with expressive neural-network wave-function ans\"atze. Although NNVMC can…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengze Xiao , Xuanzhe Ding , Yuyang Lou , Lixue Cheng , Chaojian Li

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods represent a powerful family of computational techniques for tackling complex quantum many-body problems and performing calculations of stationary state properties. QMC is among the most accurate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Alfonso Annarelli , Dario Alfè , Andrea Zen

The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) method allows sampling from continuous densities. Favorable scaling with dimension has led to wide adoption of HMC by the statistics community. Modern auto-differentiating software should allow more…

Computation · Statistics 2022-08-17 Ian Langmore , Michael Dikovsky , Scott Geraedts , Peter Norgaard , Rob von Behren

The Monte Carlo (MC) Hamiltonian is a new stochastic method to solve many-body problems. The MC Hamiltonian represents an effective Hamiltonian in a finite energy window. We construct it from the classical action via Monte Carlo with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-20 H. Kröger , X. Q. Luo , K. J. M. Moriarty

Building on the success of Quantum Monte Carlo techniques such as diffusion Monte Carlo, alternative stochastic approaches to solve electronic structure problems have emerged over the last decade. The full configuration interaction quantum…

We propose a new variational Monte Carlo (VMC) approach based on the Krylov subspace for large-scale shell-model calculations. A random walker in the VMC is formulated with the $M$-scheme representation, and samples a small number of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Noritaka Shimizu , Takahiro Mizusaki , Kazunari Kaneko

Nonlinear non-Gaussian state-space models arise in numerous applications in statistics and signal processing. In this context, one of the most successful and popular approximation techniques is the Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithm,…

Computation · Statistics 2016-04-20 Francois Septier , Gareth W. Peters

The Dynamic Monte Carlo (DMC) method is an established molecular simulation technique for the analysis of the dynamics in colloidal suspensions. An excellent alternative to Brownian Dynamics or Molecular Dynamics simulation, DMC is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-15 Fabián A. García Daza , Alejandro Cuetos , Alessandro Patti

We apply the hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm to the financial time sires analysis of the stochastic volatility (SV) model for the first time. The HMC algorithm is used for the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) update of volatility…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 Tetsuya Takaishi

An appropriate iterative scheme for the minimization of the energy, based on the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) technique, is introduced and compared with existing stochastic schemes. We test the various methods for the 1D Heisenberg ring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Sandro Sorella

Many-electron problems pose some of the greatest challenges in computational science, with important applications across many fields of modern science. Fermionic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are among the most powerful approaches to…

This topical review describes the methodology of continuum variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations. These stochastic methods are based on many-body wave functions and are capable of achieving very high accuracy. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 R. J. Needs , M. D. Towler , N. D. Drummond , P. Lopez Rios

In this article we develop a multi-grid multi-level Monte Carlo (MGMLMC) method for the stochastic Stokes-Darcy interface model with random hydraulic conductivity both in the porous media domain and on the interface. Because the randomness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Zhipeng Yang , Xiaoming He , Li Zhang , Ju Ming

We introduce a novel method of efficiently simulating the non-equilibrium steady state of large many-body open quantum systems with highly non-local interactions, based on a variational Monte Carlo optimization of a matrix product operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Dawid A. Hryniuk , Marzena H. Szymańska

We develop a novel multi-configurational Symmetrized Projector Quantum Monte Carlo (MSPQMC) method to calculate excited state properties of Hubbard models. We compare the MSPQMC results for finite Hubbard chains with exact results (where…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Bhargavi Srinivasan , S. Ramasesha , H. R. Krishnamurthy

Hierarchical Bayesian models based on Gaussian processes are considered useful for describing complex nonlinear statistical dependencies among variables in real-world data. However, effective Monte Carlo algorithms for inference with these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-11 Takashi Hayakawa , Satoshi Asai