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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)…

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This work introduces an end-to-end framework for multi-asset option pricing that combines market-consistent risk-neutral density recovery with quantum-accelerated numerical integration. We first calibrate arbitrage-free marginal…

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We study signal processing tasks in which the signal is mapped via some generalized time-frequency transform to a higher dimensional time-frequency space, processed there, and synthesized to an output signal. We show how to approximate such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Ron Levie , Haim Avron , Gitta Kutyniok

We introduce several improvements to the penalty-based variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) algorithm for computing electronic excited states of Entwistle $\textit{et al.}$ [M. T. Entwistle $\textit{et al.}$, Nat. Commun. $\textbf{14}$,…

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We analyze the convergence of higher order Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) quadratures of solution-functionals to countably-parametric, nonlinear operator equations with distributed uncertain parameters taking values in a separable Banach space $X$…

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The conventional tensor-network states employ real-space product states as reference wave functions. Here, we propose a many-variable variational Monte Carlo (mVMC) method combined with tensor networks by taking advantages of both to study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Hui-Hai Zhao , Kota Ido , Satoshi Morita , Masatoshi Imada

Direct sampling from a Slater determinant is combined with an autoregressive deep neural network as a Jastrow factor into a fully autoregressive Slater-Jastrow ansatz for variational quantum Monte Carlo, which allows for uncorrelated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-22 Stephan Humeniuk , Yuan Wan , Lei Wang

The complexity of many-body quantum wave functions is a central aspect of several fields of physics and chemistry where non-perturbative interactions are prominent. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proven to be a flexible tool to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 Corey Adams , Giuseppe Carleo , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco

Physicists dating back to Feynman have lamented the difficulties of applying the variational principle to quantum field theories. In non-relativistic quantum field theories, the challenge is to parameterize and optimize over the infinitely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 John M. Martyn , Khadijeh Najafi , Di Luo

Fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo (FNDMC) is a stochastic quantum many-body method that has a great potential in electronic structure theory. We examine how FNDMC satisfies exact constraints, linearity and derivative discontinuity of total…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Matej Ditte , Matus Dubecky

Many quantum many-body wavefunctions, such as Jastrow-Slater, tensor network, and neural quantum states, are studied with the variational Monte Carlo technique, where stochastic optimization is usually performed to obtain a faithful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-21 Ruojing Peng , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

In lattice quantum field theory studies, parameters defining the lattice theory must be tuned toward criticality to access continuum physics. Commonly used Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods suffer from critical slowing down in this…

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We describe a network clustering framework, based on finite mixture models, that can be applied to discrete-valued networks with hundreds of thousands of nodes and billions of edge variables. Relative to other recent model-based clustering…

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We explore the application of an extrapolative method that yields very accurate total and relative energies from variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) results. For a trial wave function consisting of a small…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Seyed Mohammadreza Hosseini , Ali Alavi , Pablo Lopez Rios

This topical review describes the methodology of continuum variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations. These stochastic methods are based on many-body wave functions and are capable of achieving very high accuracy. The…

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Fixed node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (FN-DMC) is an increasingly used computational approach for investigating the electronic structure of molecules, solids, and surfaces with controllable accuracy. It stands out among equally accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Andrea Zen , Jan Gerit Brandenburg , Angelos Michaelides , Dario Alfè

A recent preprint by Mazzola and Carleo numerically investigates exponential challenges that can arise for the QC-QMC algorithm introduced in our work, "Unbiasing fermionic quantum Monte Carlo with a quantum computer." As discussed in our…

It has become increasingly feasible to use quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods to study correlated fermion systems for realistic Hamiltonians. We give a summary of these techniques targeted at researchers in the field of correlated electrons,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Lucas K. Wagner , David M. Ceperley

Motivated by recent developments in conformal field theory (CFT), we devise a Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to calculate the moments of the partially transposed reduced density matrix at finite temperature. These are used to construct…

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