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We show that recently developed quantum Monte Carlo methods, which provide accurate vertical transition energies for single excitations, also successfully treat double excitations. We study the double excitations in medium-sized molecules,…

We further study the validity of the Monte Carlo Hamiltonian method. The advantage of the method, in comparison with the standard Monte Carlo Lagrangian approach, is its capability to study the excited states. We consider two quantum…

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Monte Carlo sampling is a powerful toolbox of algorithmic techniques widely used for a number of applications wherein some noisy quantity, or summary statistic thereof, is sought to be estimated. In this paper, we survey the literature for…

We propose a quantum Monte Carlo approach to solve the ground state many-body Schrodinger equation for the electronic ground state. The method combines optimization from variational Monte Carlo and propagation from auxiliary field quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Yixiao Chen , Linfeng Zhang , Weinan E , Roberto Car

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have proven to be highly accurate for computing excited states, but the choice of optimization strategies for multiple states remains an active topic of investigation. In this work, we revisit the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Stuart Shepard , Anthony Scemama , Saverio Moroni , Claudia Filippi

We present a hybrid quantum-classical Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) algorithm for estimating the excited states of the nuclear shell model. The conventional GFMC method, widely used to find the ground state of a quantum many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yongdan Yang , Ruyu Yang , Xiaosi Xu

Development of exponentially scaling methods has seen great progress in tackling larger systems than previously thought possible. One such technique, full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo, is a useful algorithm that allows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-23 Norm M. Tubman , Joonho Lee , Tyler Y. Takeshita , Martin Head-Gordon , K. Birgitta Whaley

We present a variational Monte Carlo algorithm for estimating the lowest excited states of a quantum system which is a natural generalization of the estimation of ground states. The method has no free parameters and requires no explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 David Pfau , Simon Axelrod , Halvard Sutterud , Ingrid von Glehn , James S. Spencer

We investigate the use of different variational principles in quantum Monte Carlo, namely energy and variance minimization, prompted by the interest in the robust and accurate estimate of electronic excited states. For two prototypical,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Alice Cuzzocrea , Anthony Scemama , Wim J. Briels , Saverio Moroni , Claudia Filippi

This review covers applications of quantum Monte Carlo methods to quantum mechanical problems in the study of electronic and atomic structure, as well as applications to statistical mechanical problems both of static and dynamic nature. The…

chem-ph · Physics 2016-10-26 M. P. Nightingale , C. J. Umrigar

Machine learning and specifically deep-learning methods have outperformed human capabilities in many pattern recognition and data processing problems, in game playing, and now also play an increasingly important role in scientific…

Monte Carlo methods use random sampling to estimate numerical quantities which are hard to compute deterministically. One important example is the use in statistical physics of rapidly mixing Markov chains to approximately compute partition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Ashley Montanaro

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 computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

Quantum computers have a potential for solving quantum chemistry problems with higher accuracy than classical computers. Quantum computing quantum Monte Carlo (QC-QMC) is a QMC with a trial state prepared in quantum circuit, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shu Kanno , Hajime Nakamura , Takao Kobayashi , Shigeki Gocho , Miho Hatanaka , Naoki Yamamoto , Qi Gao

Variational Monte Carlo methods have recently been applied to the calculation of excited states; however, it is still an open question what objective function is most effective. A promising approach is to optimize excited states using a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 William A. Wheeler , Kevin G. Kleiner , Lucas K. Wagner

In this review we discuss, from a unified point of view, a variety of Monte Carlo methods used to solve eigenvalue problems in statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics. Although the applications of these methods differ widely, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-21 M. P. Nightingale , C. J. Umrigar

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods can very accurately compute ground state properties of quantum systems. We applied these methods to a system of boson hard spheres to get exact, infinite system size results for the ground state at several…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Mark Dewing

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 introduce a novel many body method which combines two powerful many body techniques, viz., quantum Monte Carlo and coupled cluster theory. Coupled cluster wave functions are introduced as importance functions in a Monte Carlo method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-04 Alessandro Roggero , Abhishek Mukherjee , Francesco Pederiva