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Auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) has repeatedly demonstrated itself as one of the most accurate quantum many-body methods, capable of simulating both real and model systems. In this article we investigate the application of AFQMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-14 Shuai Zhang , Fionn D. Malone , Miguel A. Morales

We propose an algorithm for accurate, systematic and scalable computation of interatomic forces within the auxiliary-field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method. The algorithm relies on the Hellman-Fenyman theorem, and incorporates Pulay…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Mario Motta , Shiwei Zhang

We present a generalization of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method to cavity quantum-electrodynamical (QED) matter systems. The method can be formulated in both the Coulomb and the dipole gauge. We verify its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Lukas Weber , Leonardo dos Anjos Cunha , Miguel A. Morales , Angel Rubio , Shiwei Zhang

The chromium dimer (Cr2) presents an outstanding challenge for many-body electronic structure methods. Its complicated nature of binding, with a formal sextuple bond and an unusual potential energy curve, is emblematic of the competing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

The answers to data assimilation questions can be expressed as path integrals over all possible state and parameter histories. We show how these path integrals can be evaluated numerically using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method designed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 John C. Quinn , Henry D. I. Abarbanel

We report the development of a python-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) program, ipie, with preliminary timing benchmarks and new AFQMC results on the isomerization of [Cu$_2$O$_2$$]^{2+}$. We demonstrate how implementations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Fionn D. Malone , Ankit Mahajan , James S. Spencer , Joonho Lee

We use a graphics processing unit (GPU) for fast computations of Monte Carlo integrations. Two widely used Monte Carlo integration programs, VEGAS and BASES, are parallelized on GPU. By using $W^{+}$ plus multi-gluon production processes at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 J. Kanzaki

A local embedding and effective downfolding scheme has been developed and implemented in the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method. A local cluster in which electrons are fully correlated is defined and the frozen orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 Brandon Eskridge , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

Obtaining a thermodynamically accurate phase diagram through numerical calculations is a computationally expensive problem that is crucially important to understanding the complex phenomena of solid state physics, such as superconductivity.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michał Januszewski , Andrzej Ptok , Dawid Crivelli , Bartłomiej Gardas

We employ constrained path Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) in the pursuit of studying physical nuclear systems using a lattice formalism. Since AFQMC has been widely used in the study of condensed-matter systems such as the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-16 Ryan Curry , Jayani Dissanayake , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

The performance of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm is determined by the speed of sparse matrix-vector multiplication within the context of preconditioned conjugate gradient iteration. We study these operations as implemented for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-14 Kyle A. Wendt , Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde

In this work, we present an overview of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph- AFQMC) approach from a computational quantum chemistry perspective, and present a numerical assessment of its performance on main group chemistry…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Joonho Lee , Hung Q. Pham , David R. Reichman

We present a systematic downfolding many-body approach for extended systems. Many-body calculations operate on a simpler Hamiltonian which retains material-specific properties. The Hamiltonian is systematically improvable and allows one to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-02 Fengjie Ma , Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

We extend correlated sampling from classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo to the quantum-classical (QC-AFQMC) framework, enabling accurate nuclear force computations crucial for geometry optimization and reaction dynamics. Stochastic…

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are recently being used to an increasing degree for general computational purposes. This development is motivated by their theoretical peak performance, which significantly exceeds that of broadly available…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Weigel

The recently developed auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method is applied to compute the equation of state and the compressibility of neutron matter. By combining diffusion Monte Carlo for the spatial degrees of freedom and auxiliary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sarsa , S. Fantoni , K. E. Schmidt , F. Pederiva

We accelerated an {\it ab-initio} QMC electronic structure calculation by using GPGPU. The bottleneck of the calculation for extended solid systems is replaced by CUDA-GPGPU subroutine kernels which build up spline basis set expansions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-20 Yutaka Uejima , Ryo Maezono

We propose a novel algorithm for calculating the ground-state energy of quantum many-body systems by combining auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) with tensor-train sketching. In AFQMC, a good trial wavefunction to guide the random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ziang Yu , Shiwei Zhang , Yuehaw Khoo

We created an efficient algorithm suitable for graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform Monte Carlo simulations of a subset of reaction-diffusion models. The algorithm uses techniques that are specific to GPU programming, and combines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 R. D. Schram

Monte Carlo simulation is widely used to numerically solve stochastic differential equations. Although the method is flexible and easy to implement, it may be slow to converge. Moreover, an inaccurate solution will result when using large…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Shuaiqiang Liu , Graziana Colonna , Lech A. Grzelak , Cornelis W. Oosterlee