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The \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method is one of the most successful methods in statistical physics, quantum chemistry and related fields, but its application to quantum degenerate Fermi systems is severely hampered by…

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We investigate how the fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo energy of solids depends on single-particle orbitals used in Slater--Jastrow wave functions. We demonstrate that the dependence can be significant, in particular in the case of 3d…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-09 Jindrich Kolorenc , Shuming Hu , Lubos Mitas

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) is a numeric technique that allows one to calculate quantities specified in terms of diagrammatic expansions, the latter being a standard tool of many-body quantum statistics. The sign problem that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-18 Kris Van Houcke , Evgeny Kozik , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

We report the first successful application of the {\it ab initio} quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) framework to a phonon dispersion calculation. A full phonon dispersion of diamond is successfully calculated at the variational Monte Carlo (VMC)…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-14 Kousuke Nakano , Tommaso Morresi , Michele Casula , Ryo Maezono , Sandro Sorella

We present accurate nonrelativistic ground-state energies of the transition metal atoms of the 3d series calculated with Fixed-Node Diffusion Monte Carlo (FN-DMC). Selected multi-determinantal expansions obtained with the CIPSI method…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 A. Scemama , T. Applencourt , E. Giner , M. Caffarel

We explore the use in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) of trial wave functions consisting of a Jastrow factor multiplied by a truncated configuration-interaction (CI) expansion in Slater determinants obtained from a CI perturbatively selected…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-01-25 Emmanuel Giner , Roland Assaraf , Julien Toulouse

Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) and coupled cluster theory [CCSD(T)] are widely-employed benchmark methods for noncovalent interactions (NCIs). However, recent studies have reported notable discrepancies across several hydrogen-bonded…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Kousuke Nakano , Benjamin X. Shi , Dario Alfè , Andrea Zen

In plasma edge simulations, kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) is often used to simulate neutral particles and estimate source terms. For large-sized reactors, like ITER and DEMO, high particle collision rates lead to a substantial computational cost…

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Reliable theoretical predictions of noncovalent interaction energies, which are important e.g. in drug-design and hydrogen-storage applications, belong to longstanding challenges of contemporary quantum chemistry. In this respect, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-06 Matúš Dubecký , René Derian , Petr Jurečka , Lubos Mitas , Pavel Hobza , Michal Otyepka

We revisit the infinite variance problem in fermionic Monte Carlo simulations, which is widely encountered in areas ranging from condensed matter to nuclear and high-energy physics. The different algorithms, which we broadly refer to as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shiwei Zhang

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…

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We explore different ways of incorporating accurate trial wave functions into free projection auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (fp-AFQMC). Trial states employed include coupled cluster singles and doubles, multi-Slater, and symmetry…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma

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…

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Accuracy of the fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo (FN-DMC) depends on the node location of the best available trial state $\Psi_T$. The practical FN-DMC approaches available for large systems rely on compact yet effective $\Psi_T$s…

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The bold diagrammatic Monte Carlo (BDMC) method performs an unbiased sampling of Feynman's diagrammatic series using skeleton diagrams. For lattice models the efficiency of BDMC can be dramatically improved by incorporating dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. Pollet , N. V. Prokof'ev , B. V. Svistunov

Ab initio auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) is a systematically improvable many-body method, but its application to extended solids has been severely limited by unfavorable computational scaling and memory requirements that…

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On the base of the diffusion Monte-Carlo method we develop the method allowing to simulate the quantum systems with complex wave function. The method is exact and there are no approximations on the simulations of the module and the phase of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Abdullaev , M. Musakhanov , A. Nakamura

We present high-accuracy correlated calculations of small Si$_x$H$_y$ molecular systems both in the ground and excited states. We employ quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) together with a variety of many-body wave function approaches based on basis…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Guangming Wang , Abdulgani Annaberdiyev , Lubos Mitas

A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo Bedaque

Recent technical advances in dealing with finite-size errors make quantum Monte Carlo methods quite appealing for treating extended systems in electronic structure calculations, especially when commonly-used density functional theory (DFT)…

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