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We propose an excited-state molecular dynamics simulation method based on variational quantum algorithms at a computational cost comparable to that of ground-state simulations. We utilize the feature that excited states can be obtained as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hirotoshi Hirai

The essence of atomic structure theory, quantum chemistry, and computational materials science is solving the multi-electron stationary Schr\"odinger equation. The Quantum Monte Carlo-based neural network wave function method has surpassed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 JinDe Liu , Chenglong Qin , Xi He , Gang Jiang

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

Recently developed neural network-based wave function methods are capable of achieving state-of-the-art results for finding the ground state in real space. In this work, a neural network-based method is used to compute excited states. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Yimeng Min

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a stochastic method which has been particularly successful for ground-state electronic structure calculations but mostly unexplored for the computation of excited-state energies. Here, we show that, within a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Anthony Scemama , Anouar Benali , Denis Jacquemin , Michel Caffarel , Pierre-François Loos

We present a simple and efficient method to optimize within energy minimization the determinantal component of the many-body wave functions commonly used in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The approach obtains the optimal wave function as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Anthony Scemama , Claudia Filippi

Two state-of-the-art computational approaches: quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), based on accurate total energies, and GW with exciton effects (GW-BSE), based on perturbation theory are employed to calculate ionization potentials, electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeffrey C. Grossman , Michael Rohlfing , Lubos Mitas , Steven G. Louie , Marvin L. Cohen

The accurate quantum chemical calculation of excited states is a challenging task, often requiring computationally demanding methods. When entire ground and excited potential energy surfaces (PESs) are desired, e.g., to predict the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Zeno Schätzle , P. Bernát Szabó , Alice Cuzzocrea , Frank Noé

The calculation of excited state energies of electronic structure Hamiltonians has many important applications, such as the calculation of optical spectra and reaction rates. While low-depth quantum algorithms, such as the variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Oscar Higgott , Daochen Wang , Stephen Brierley

We present a modification to variational Monte Carlo's linear method optimization scheme that addresses a critical memory bottleneck while maintaining compatibility with both the traditional ground state variational principle and our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-07 Luning Zhao , Eric Neuscamman

The band structure of silicon is calculated at the Gamma, X, and L wave vectors using diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods. Excited states are formed by promoting an electron from the valence band into the conduction band. We obtain good…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Williamson , Randolph Q. Hood , R. J. Needs , G. Rajagopal

We present in detail the recently developed multi-configurational symmetrized projector quantum Monte Carlo (MSPQMC) method for excited states of the Hubbard model. We describe the implementation of the Monte Carlo method for a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Bhargavi Srinivasan , S. Ramasesha , H. R. Krishnamurthy

We introduce a variational Monte Carlo algorithm for approximating finite-temperature quantum many-body systems, based on the minimization of a modified free energy. This approach directly approximates the state at a fixed temperature,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Sirui Lu , Giacomo Giudice , J. Ignacio Cirac

Accurate numerical solution of the five-body Schrodinger equation is effected via variational Monte Carlo. The spectrum is assumed to exhibit a narrow resonance with strangeness S=+1. A fully antisymmetrized and pair-correlated five-quark…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Mark W. Paris

Variational optimization of orbitals in time-independent density functional calculations of excited electronic states presents a significant challenge, as excited states typically correspond to saddle points on the electronic energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Elli Selenius , Gianluca Levi

To calculate excited states in quantum many-body systems, multi-configuration mixing has often been employed. However, it has been still unclear how to choose important Slater determinants from a huge model space. We propose a novel…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Takatoshi Ichikawa , Naoyuki Itagaki

Variational calculations of excited electronic states are carried out by finding saddle points on the surface that describes how the energy of the system varies as a function of the electronic degrees of freedom. This approach has several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi , Hannes Jónsson

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are used to calculate various ground state properties of charged bosons in two dimensions, throughout the whole density range where the fluid phase is stable. Wigner crystallization is predicted at $r_s\simeq…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-01 S. De Palo , S. Conti , S. Moroni

A Monte Carlo method is presented to evaluate quantum states with many particles moving in the continuum. The scattering state is generated at each time by a Monte Carlo random sampling algorithm. The same calculation are repeated until the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-06 Zhen-Xiang Xu , Chong Qi

A study of the first excited states of beryllium atom starting from explicitly correlated wave functions is carried out. Several properties are obtained and discussed focusing on the analysis of the Hund's rules in terms of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Galvez , E. Buendia , A. Sarsa