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Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations for fermions are becoming the standard to provide high quality reference data in systems that are too large to be investigated via quantum chemical approaches. DMC with the fixed-node approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Andrea Zen , Sandro Sorella , Michael J. Gillan , Angelos Michaelides , Dario Alfè

Thermalization of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is one of the most promising phenomena for understanding the strong interaction. The energy loss and momentum broadening at low momentum can be well described by a stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Xiaojian Du , Wenyang Qian

We present three modifications to our recently introduced fast randomized iteration method for full configuration interaction (FCI-FRI) and investigate their effects on the method's performance for Ne, H$_2$O, and N$_2$. The initiator…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Samuel M. Greene , Robert J. Webber , Jonathan Weare , Timothy C. Berkelbach

In common with many high-accuracy electronic structure methods, the initiator adaptation of full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (i-FCIQMC) has difficulty treating realistic systems with large numbers of electrons. This…

We propose the use of preconditioning in FCIQMC which, in combination with perturbative estimators, greatly increases the efficiency of the algorithm. The use of preconditioning allows a time step close to unity to be used (without…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Nick S. Blunt , Alex J. W. Thom , Charles J. C. Scott

We introduce methodologies for highly scalable quantum Monte Carlo simulations of electron-phonon models, and report benchmark results for the Holstein model on the square lattice. The determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) method is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Benjamin Cohen-Stead , Owen Bradley , Cole Miles , George Batrouni , Richard Scalettar , Kipton Barros

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are some of the most accurate methods for simulating correlated electronic systems. We investigate the compatibility, strengths and weaknesses of two such methods, namely, diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Fionn D. Malone , Anouar Benali , Miguel A. Morales , Michel Caffarel , P. R. C. Kent , Luke Shulenburger

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

We present a stable and systematically improvable quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to calculating excited-state energies, which we implement using our fast randomized iteration method for the full configuration interaction problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Samuel M. Greene , Robert J. Webber , James E. T. Smith , Jonathan Weare , Timothy C. Berkelbach

We present near-term quantum algorithms for auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), viewed as imaginary-time projection for ground-state calculation as an ensemble of one-body propagators driven by stochastic fields $\Omega$. Starting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiantao Li

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a stochastic method which has been particularly successful for ground-state electronic structure calculations but mostly unexplored for the computation of excited-state energies. Here, we show that, within a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Anthony Scemama , Anouar Benali , Denis Jacquemin , Michel Caffarel , Pierre-François Loos

Model space quantum Monte Carlo (MSQMC) is an extension of full configuration interaction QMC (FCIQMC) that allows us to calculate quasi-degenerate and excited electronic states by sampling the effective Hamiltonian in the model space. We…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Seiichiro L. Ten-no

High-quality excitation generators are crucial to the effectiveness of Coupled cluster Monte Carlo (CCMC) and full configuration interaction Quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) calculations. The heat bath sampling of Holmes et al. [A. A. Holmes,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Verena A. Neufeld , Alex J. W. Thom

Over the past few years pair coupled cluster doubles (pCCD) has shown promise for the description of strong correlation. This promise is related to its apparent ability to match results from doubly occupied configuration interaction (DOCI),…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 James J. Shepherd , Thomas M. Henderson , Gustavo E. Scuseria

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

We present a finite-temperature canonical-ensemble determinant quantum Monte Carlo algorithm that enforces an exact fermion number and enables stable simulations of correlated lattice fermions. We propose a stabilized QR update that reduces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Tu Hong , Kun Chen , Xiao Yan Xu

We introduce a black-box auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) approach to perform highly accurate electronic structure calculations using configuration interaction singles and doubles (CISD) trial states. This method consistently…

Full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) is a stochastic approach for finding the ground state of a quantum many-body Hamiltonian. It is based on the dynamical evolution of a walker population in Hilbert space, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-04 Mingrui Yang , Elke Pahl , Joachim Brand

We present developments in the calculation of reduced density matrices (RDMs) in the full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) method. An efficient scheme is described to allow storage of RDMs across distributed memory,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 N. S. Blunt , George H. Booth , Ali Alavi

We show that Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) is a Markov Chain in its present form. We construct the Markov matrix of FCIQMC for a two determinant system and hence compute the stationary distribution. These…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 W. A. Vigor , J. S. Spencer , M. J. Bearpark , A. J. W. Thom