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Particle-based ensemble semi-classical Monte Carlo (MC) methods employ quantum corrections (QCs) to address quantum confinement and degenerate carrier populations to model tomorrow's ultra-scaled MOSFETs. Here we present new approaches to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Dax M. Crum , Amithraj Valsaraj , John K. David , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for estimating integrals are attractive since the resulting estimators typically converge at a faster rate than pseudo-random Monte Carlo. However, they can be difficult to set up on arbitrary posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Tobias Schwedes , Ben Calderhead

The lowest energy configurations of close-packed clusters up to N=110 atoms with stacking faults are studied using the Monte Carlo method with Metropolis algorithm. Two types of contact interactions, a pair-potential and a many-atom…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Manninen , J. Akola , M. Manninen

We report a scalable Fortran implementation of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) and demonstrate its excellent performance and beneficial scaling with respect to system size. Furthermore, we investigate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Z. Sukurma , M. Schlipf , M. Humer , A. Taheridehkordi , G. Kresse

For important classes of many-fermion problems, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods allow exact calculations of ground-state and finite-temperature properties, without the sign problem. The list spans condensed matter, nuclear physics, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

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 offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

We provide a spin-adapted formulation of the Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) algorithm, based on the Graphical Unitary Group Approach (GUGA), which enables the exploitation of SU(2) symmetry within this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 Werner Dobrautz , Simon Smart , Ali Alavi

The inherently high computational cost of iterative self-consistent-field (SCF) methods proves to be a critical issue delaying visual and haptic feedback in real-time quantum chemistry. In this work, we introduce two schemes for SCF…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Adrian H. Mühlbach , Alain C. Vaucher , Markus Reiher

Quantum simulation of molecular electronic structure is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, achieving chemically accurate predictions for strongly correlated systems requires quantum phase estimation (QPE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Shota Kanasugi , Riki Toshio , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima

Within Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo, we investigate how the statistical error behaves as a function of the parameters which control the stochastic sampling. We define the inefficiency as a measure of the statistical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 W. A. Vigor , J. S. Spencer , M. J. Bearpark , A. J. W. Thom

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the quantum-enhanced Monte Carlo method [Nature, 619, 282-287 (2023)], aimed at identifying the optimal working point of the algorithm. We observe an optimal mixing Hamiltonian strength and analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Johannes Christmann , Petr Ivashkov , Mattia Chiurco , Guglielmo Mazzola

Sampling problems are widely regarded as the task for which quantum computers can most readily provide a quantum advantage. Leveraging this feature, the quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo [Layden, D. et al., Nature 619, 282-287…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Yuichiro Nakano , Ken N. Okada , Keisuke Fujii

Fixed node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (FN-DMC) is an increasingly used computational approach for investigating the electronic structure of molecules, solids, and surfaces with controllable accuracy. It stands out among equally accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Andrea Zen , Jan Gerit Brandenburg , Angelos Michaelides , Dario Alfè

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) is a powerful method for evaluating high-dimensional integrals. However, its use is typically limited to distributions where direct sampling is straightforward, such as the uniform distribution on the unit hypercube…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Sifan Liu

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

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

We analyse and implement a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) finite element method (FEM) for the forward problem of uncertainty quantification (UQ) for the Helmholtz equation with random coefficients, both in the second-order and zero-order terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Ivan G. Graham , Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens , Ian H. Sloan , Euan A. Spence

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)…

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