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We study the properties of the two-dimensional Fermi polaron model in which an impurity attractively interacts with a Fermi sea of particles in the zero-range limit. We use a diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) method which allows us to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonas Vlietinck , Jan Ryckebusch , Kris Van Houcke

Highly accurate results for the homogeneous electron gas (HEG) have only been achieved to date within a diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) framework. Here, we introduce a newly developed stochastic technique, Full Configuration Interaction Quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-22 James J. Shepherd , George Booth , Andreas Grüneis , Ali Alavi

\textit{Ab initio} quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods in principle allow for the calculation of exact properties of correlated many-electron systems, but are in general limited to the simulation of a finite number of electrons $N$ in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-21 Tobias Dornheim , Jan Vorberger

We show that Monte Carlo sampling of the Feynman diagrammatic series (DiagMC) can be used for tackling hard fermionic quantum many-body problems in the thermodynamic limit by presenting accurate results for the repulsive Hubbard model in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Kozik , K. Van Houcke , E. Gull , L. Pollet , N. Prokof'ev , B. Svistunov , M. Troyer

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

We present a new approach to quantum general relativity based on the idea of Feynman to treat the graviton in Einstein's theory as a point particle field subject to quantum fluctuations just as any such field is in the well-known Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 B. F. L. Ward

Excited states play a central role in determining the physical properties of quantum matter, yet their accurate computation in many-body systems remains a formidable challenge for numerical methods. While neural quantum states have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Douglas Hendry , Alessandro Sinibaldi , Giuseppe Carleo

Precise knowledge of the static density response function (SDRF) of the uniform electron gas (UEG) serves as key input for numerous applications, most importantly for density functional theory beyond generalized gradient approximations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-06 Simon Groth , Tobias Dornheim , Michael Bonitz

Precise calculations of dynamics in the homogeneous electron gas (jellium model) are of fundamental importance for design and characterization of new materials. We introduce a diagrammatic Monte Carlo technique based on algorithmic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 James P. F. LeBlanc , Kun Chen , Kristjan Haule , Nikolay V. Prokof'ev , Igor S. Tupitsyn

The uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature is of high current interest due to its key relevance for many applications including dense plasmas and laser excited solids. In particular, density functional theory heavily relies on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-15 Tobias Dornheim , Tim Schoof , Simon Groth , Alexey Filinov , Michael Bonitz

The Diffusion Monte Carlo method with constant number of walkers, also called Stochastic Reconfiguration as well as Sequential Monte Carlo, is a widely used Monte Carlo methodology for computing the ground-state energy and wave function of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Michel Caffarel , Pierre del Moral , Luc de Montella

We show by a meta-analysis of the available Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) results that two-dimensional fermions with repulsive interactions exhibit universal behavior in the strongly-correlated regime, and that their freezing transition can be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-09 Mehrtash Babadi , Brian Skinner , Michael M. Fogler , Eugene Demler

Fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo (FNDMC) is a stochastic quantum many-body method that has a great potential in electronic structure theory. We examine how FNDMC satisfies exact constraints, linearity and derivative discontinuity of total…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Matej Ditte , Matus Dubecky

We present a method using Feynman-like diagrams to calculate the statistical properties of random many-body potentials. This method provides a promising alternative to existing techniques typically applied to this class of problems, such as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Rupert Small , Sebastian Müller

The uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature has recently attracted substantial interest due to the epxerimental progress in the field of warm dense matter. To explain the experimental data accurate theoretical models for high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-25 V. S. Filinov , V. E. Fortov , M. Bonitz , Zh. Moldabekov

We develop a Monte Carlo scheme for sampling series of Feynman diagrams for the proper self-energy which are self-consistently expressed in terms of renormalized particle propagators. This approach is used to solve the problem of a single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-08 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

The uniform electron gas (UEG), a hypothetical system with finite homogenous electron density composed by an infinite number of electrons in a box of infinite volume, is the practical pillar of density-functional theory (DFT) and the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Pierre-François Loos , Michael Seidl

The uniform electron gas (UEG) is a cornerstone of density-functional theory (DFT) and the foundation of the local-density approximation (LDA), one of the most successful approximations in DFT. In this work, we extend the concept of UEG by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Pierre-François Loos

While Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is in principle an exact stochastic method for \textit{ab initio} electronic structure calculations, in practice the fermionic sign problem necessitates the use of the fixed-node approximation and trial…