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We review the use of continuum quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for the calculation of energy gaps from first principles, and present a broad set of excited-state calculations carried out with the variational and fixed-node diffusion QMC…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Ryan J. Hunt , Marcin Szyniszewski , Genki I. Prayogo , Ryo Maezono , Neil D. Drummond

The random numbers driving Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation are usually modeled as independent U(0,1) random variables. Tribble [Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms using completely uniformly distributed driving sequences (2007)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-11 S. Chen , J. Dick , A. B. Owen

We explore the application of the quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method in deep backward dynamic programming (DBDP) (Hure et al. 2020) for numerically solving high-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Our study focuses on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Du Ouyang , Jichang Xiao , Xiaoqun Wang

Some recent work on confidence intervals for randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) sampling found a surprising result: ordinary Student $t$ 95% confidence intervals based on a modest number of replicates were seen to be very effective and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Zexin Pan , Art B. Owen

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an advanced simulation methodology for studies of manybody quantum systems. In this review, we focus on the electronic structure QMC, i.e., methods relevant for systems described by the electron-ion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-16 Michal Bajdich , Lubos Mitas

This paper proposes a new importance sampling (IS) that is tailored to quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration over $\mathbb{R}^s$. IS introduces a multiplicative adjustment to the integrand by compensating the sampling from the proposal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Zexin Pan , Du Ouyang , Zhijian He

This project investigates the applicability of quasi-Monte Carlo methods to Euclidean lattice systems in order to improve the asymptotic error scaling of observables for such theories. The error of an observable calculated by averaging over…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-20 Andreas Ammon , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Hernan Leovey , Andreas Griewank , Micheal Müller-Preussker

One of the main practical applications of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods is the valuation of financial derivatives. We aim to give a short introduction into option pricing and show how it is facilitated using QMC. We give some practical…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-07-18 Gunther Leobacher

The fast computation of large kernel sums is a challenging task, which arises as a subproblem in any kernel method. We approach the problem by slicing, which relies on random projections to one-dimensional subspaces and fast Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Johannes Hertrich , Tim Jahn , Michael Quellmalz

We show how information on the uniformity properties of a point set employed in numerical multidimensional integration can be used to improve the error estimate over the usual Monte Carlo one. We introduce a new measure of (non-)uniformity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Jiri Hoogland , Ronald Kleiss

Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods present a convenient approach for approximating the expected value of a random variable. Algorithms exist to adaptively sample the random variable until a user defined absolute error tolerance is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Aleksei G. Sorokin , Jagadeeswaran Rathinavel

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

In this article we study examples of systematic biases that can occur in quantum Monte Carlo methods due to the accumulation of non-linear expectation values, and approaches by which these errors can be corrected. We begin with a study of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 Nick S. Blunt , Ali Alavi , George H. Booth

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

This paper studies a generalization of hyperinterpolation over the high-dimensional unit cube. Hyperinterpolation of degree \( m \) serves as a discrete approximation of the \( L_2 \)-orthogonal projection of the same degree, using Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Congpei An , Mou Cai , Takashi Goda

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) quadrature rules using higher order digital nets and sequences have been shown to achieve the almost optimal rate of convergence of the worst-case error in Sobolev spaces of arbitrary fixed smoothness $\alpha\in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Takashi Goda , Kosuke Suzuki , Takehito Yoshiki

When applying the quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method of numerical integration of univariate functions, Koksma's inequality provides a basic estimate of the error in terms of the discrepancy of the used evaluation points and the total variation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Martin Lind

Computational methods both open the frontiers of economic analysis and serve as a bottleneck in what can be achieved. We are the first to study whether Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm can improve the runtime of economic applications and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Vladimir Skavysh , Sofia Priazhkina , Diego Guala , Thomas R. Bromley

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) can play a very important role in generating accurate data needed for constructing potential energy surfaces. We argue that QMC has advantages in terms of a smaller systematic bias and an ability to cover phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-02 David M. Ceperley , Scott Jensen , Yubo Yang , Hongwei Niu , Carlo Pierleoni , Markus Holzmann

Three sampling methods are compared for efficiency on a number of test problems of various complexity for which analytic quadratures are available. The methods compared are Monte Carlo with pseudo-random numbers, Latin Hypercube Sampling,…

Applications · Statistics 2015-05-12 Sergei Kucherenko , Daniel Albrecht , Andrea Saltelli