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Phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) has in several cases been found to perform well on strongly correlated systems. Here, we benchmark the method for three iron-sulfur clusters ([2Fe-2S], [4Fe-4S], and the FeMo cofactor)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Eirik F. Kjønstad , Huanchen Zhai , James Shee , Sandeep Sharma , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We have implemented recently developed multiple-projector pseudopotentials into the planewave based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (pw-AFQMC) method. Multiple-projector pseudopotentials can yield smaller planewave cut-offs while…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-06 Fengjie Ma , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is incorporated into the phaseless plane-wave-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (pw-AFQMC) method. This integration is implemented using optimized multiple-projector norm-conserving pseudopotentials, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-13 Zheng Liu , Shiwei Zhang , Fengjie Ma

Many experimentally-accessible, finite-sized interacting quantum systems are most appropriately described by the canonical ensemble of statistical mechanics. Conventional numerical simulation methods either approximate them as being coupled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-23 Tong Shen , Hatem Barghathi , Jiangyong Yu , Adrian Del Maestro , Brenda Rubenstein

We present a reduced-scaling auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) framework designed for large molecular systems and ensembles, with or without coupling to optical cavities. Our approach leverages the natural block sparsity of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yu Zhang

ipie is a Python-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) package that has undergone substantial improvements since its initial release [J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2023, 19(1): 109-121]. This paper outlines the improved modularity…

We employ constrained path Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) in the pursuit of studying physical nuclear systems using a lattice formalism. Since AFQMC has been widely used in the study of condensed-matter systems such as the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-16 Ryan Curry , Jayani Dissanayake , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

We investigate the use of optimized correlation consistent gaussian basis sets for the study of insulating solids with auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). The exponents of the basis set are optimized through the minimization of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Miguel A. Morales , Fionn D. Malone

Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) provides numerically exact solutions for strongly correlated fermionic systems but faces significant computational challenges with increasing system size. While submatrix updates were originally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-19 Fanjie Sun , Xiao Yan Xu

We introduce a GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo framework for nonconvex, free-final-time trajectory optimization problems. This framework makes use of the prox-linear method, which belongs to the larger family of sequential convex programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Govind M. Chari , Abhinav G. Kamath , Purnanand Elango , Behçet Açıkmeşe

A local embedding and effective downfolding scheme has been developed and implemented in the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method. A local cluster in which electrons are fully correlated is defined and the frozen orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 Brandon Eskridge , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

The bond dissociation energies of a set of 44 3d transition metal-containing diatomics are computed with phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) utilizing a correlated sampling technique. We investigate molecules with H, N,…

We use a graphics processing unit (GPU) for fast computations of Monte Carlo integrations. Two widely used Monte Carlo integration programs, VEGAS and BASES, are parallelized on GPU. By using $W^{+}$ plus multi-gluon production processes at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 J. Kanzaki

The validation, verification, and uncertainty quantification of computationally expensive theoretical models of quantum many-body systems require the construction of fast and accurate emulators. In this work, we develop emulators for…

We present an \textit{ab initio} auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo method for studying the electronic structure of molecules, solids, and model Hamiltonians at finite temperature. The algorithm marries the \textit{ab initio} phaseless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-13 Yuan Liu , Minsik Cho , Brenda Rubenstein

Ground-state auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) methods have become key numerical tools for studying quantum phases and phase transitions in interacting many-fermion systems. Despite the broad applicability, the efficiency of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Hao Du , Yuan-Yao He

We present a MATLAB-based framework for two- and three-dimensional fast Fourier transforms on multiple GPUs for large-scale numerical simulations using the pseudo-spectral Fourier method. The software implements two complementary multi-GPU…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Maik Punke , Marco Salvalaglio

We describe how quantum Monte Carlo calculations using the CASINO software can be accelerated using graphics processing units (GPUs) and OpenACC. In particular we consider offloading Ewald summation, the evaluation of long-range two-body…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 B. Thorpe , M. J. Smith , P. J. Hasnip , N. D. Drummond

We extend Quantum Computing Quantum Monte Carlo (QCQMC) beyond ground-state energy estimation by systematically constructing the quantum circuits used for state preparation. Replacing the original Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE)…

We report modifications of the ph-AFQMC algorithm that allow the use of large time steps and reliable time step extrapolation. Our modified algorithm eliminates size-consistency errors present in the standard algorithm when large time steps…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Zoran Sukurma , Martin Schlipf , Moritz Humer , Amir Taheridehkordi , Georg Kresse