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Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC), or particle filtering, is widely used in nonlinear state-space systems, but its performance often suffers from poorly approximated proposal and state-transition distributions. This work introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Wessel L. van Nierop , Nir Shlezinger , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

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

While it is empirically accepted that the fixed-node diffusion Monte-Carlo (FN-DMC) depends only weakly on the size of the one-particle basis sets used to expand its guiding functions, limits of this observation are not settled yet. Our…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Matúš Dubecký

The quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is one of the most promising many-body electronic structure approaches. It employs stochastic techniques for solving the stationary Schr\" odinger equation and for evaluation of expectation values. The key…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-20 Michal Bajdich

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are powerful approaches for solving electronic structure problems. Although they often provide high-accuracy solutions, the precision of most QMC methods is ultimately limited by a trial wave function that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Nick S. Blunt , Laura Caune , Javiera Quiroz-Fernandez

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have received considerable attention over the last decades due to their great promise for providing a direct solution to the many-body Schrodinger equation in electronic systems. Thanks to their low scaling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 M. A. Morales , J. McMinis , B. K. Clark , J. Kim , G. Scuseria

Fixed node diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) has been performed on a test set of forward and reverse barrier heights for 19 non-hydrogen-transfer reactions, and the nodal error has been assessed. The DMC results are robust to changes in the nodal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Kittithat Krongchon , Brian Busemeyer , Lucas K. Wagner

This paper considers the problem of sampling from non-logconcave distribution, based on queries of its unnormalized density. It first describes a framework, Denoising Diffusion Monte Carlo (DDMC), based on the simulation of a denoising…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-31 Ye He , Kevin Rojas , Molei Tao

Neural Network-based Quantum Monte Carlo (NNQMC), an emerging method for solving many-body quantum systems with high accuracy, has been limitedly applied to small systems due to demanding computation requirements. In this work, we introduce…

In the past decade, quantum diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) has been demonstrated to successfully predict the energetics and properties of a wide range of molecules and solids by numerically solving the electronic many-body Schr\"odinger…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Bing Huang , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Jaron T. Krogel , Anouar Benali

The accuracy and efficiency of ab-initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms benefits greatly from compact variational trial wave functions that accurately reproduce ground state properties of a system. We investigate the possibility of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-30 Shivesh Pathak , Lucas K. Wagner

Existence and local-uniqueness theorems for weak solutions of a system consisting of the drift-diffusion-Poisson equations and the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, all with stochastic coefficients, are presented. For the numerical approximation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Leila Taghizadeh , Amirreza Khodadadian , Clemens Heitzinger

Recent studies on diffusion-based sampling methods have shown that Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC) algorithms can be beneficial for non-convex optimization, and rigorous theoretical guarantees have been proven for both asymptotic and finite-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Umut Şimşekli , Gaël Richard

The self-healing diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm (SHDMC) [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79}, 195117 (2009), {\it ibid.} {\bf 80}, 125110 (2009)] is shown to be an accurate and robust method for calculating the ground state of atoms and molecules. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Michal Bajdich , Murilo L. Tiago , Randolph Q. Hood , Paul R. C. Kent , Fernando A. Reboredo

We evaluated the non-additive contributions of the inter-molecular interactions in B-DNA stacking by using diffusion Monte Carlo methods with fixed node approximations (FNDMC). For some base-pair steps, we found that their non-additive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Ken Sinkou Qin , Tom Ichibha , Kenta Hongo , Ryo Maezono

Forward uncertainty quantification (UQ) for partial differential equations is a many-query task that requires a significant number of model evaluations. The objective of this work is to mitigate the computational cost of UQ for a 3D-1D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Piermario Vitullo , Nicola Rares Franco , Paolo Zunino

We benchmark the ground state energies and the density profiles of atomic repulsive Fermi gases in optical lattices computed via Density Functional Theory (DFT) against the results of diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations. The main focus…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-12 S. Pilati , I. Zintchenko , M. Troyer , F. Ancilotto

We propose a modification, based on the RESTART (repetitive simulation trials after reaching thresholds) and DPR (dynamics probability redistribution) rare event simulation algorithms, of the standard diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) algorithm.…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Martin Hairer , Jonathan Weare

The Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method has proven to be an effective variance-reduction statistical method for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in Partial Differential Equation (PDE) models, combining model computations at different levels…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Santiago Badia , Jerrad Hampton , Javier Principe

A new Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) approach is proposed to investigate low-lying states of nuclei within the shell model. The formalism relies on a variational symmetry-restored wave-function to guide the underlying Brownian motion. Sign/phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-20 Jérémy Bonnard , Olivier Juillet