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We present a cross-language C++/Python program for simulations of quantum mechanical systems with the use of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. We describe a system for which to apply QMC, the algorithms of variational Monte Carlo and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Nilsen

Computing accurate yet efficient approximations to the solutions of the electronic Schr\"odinger equation has been a paramount challenge of computational chemistry for decades. Quantum Monte Carlo methods are a promising avenue of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Zeno Schätzle , Bernát Szabó , Matĕj Mezera , Jan Hermann , Frank Noé

Neural network-based variational Monte Carlo (NN-VMC) has emerged as a promising cutting-edge technique of ab initio quantum chemistry. However, the high computational cost of existing approaches hinders their applications in realistic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Ruichen Li , Haotian Ye , Du Jiang , Xuelan Wen , Chuwei Wang , Zhe Li , Xiang Li , Di He , Ji Chen , Weiluo Ren , Liwei Wang

Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) is a powerful and fast-growing method for optimizing and evolving parameterized many-body wave functions, especially with modern neural-network quantum states. In practice, however, the stochastic estimators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Zhou-Quan Wan , Roeland Wiersema , Shiwei Zhang

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) is an approach for computing ground-state wavefunctions that has recently become more powerful due to the introduction of neural network-based wavefunction parametrizations. However, efficiently training neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Robert J. Webber , Michael Lindsey

Simulating strongly correlated fermionic systems remains a fundamental challenge in quantum physics, largely due to the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. We present a neural network-based variational Monte Carlo (NN-VMC)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 William Freitas , B. Abreu , S. A. Vitiello

Neural-network quantum states have emerged as a powerful variational framework for quantum many-body systems, with recent progress often driven by massively parallel architectures such as transformers. Recurrent neural network quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-14 Ejaaz Merali , Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Mohammad Kohandel , Richard T. Scalettar , Ehsan Khatami

The advent of Neural-network Quantum States (NQS) has significantly advanced wave function ansatz research, sparking a resurgence in orbital space variational Monte Carlo (VMC) exploration. This work introduces three algorithmic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Zhu-Ping Shen , Chen Zhao , Jun Li , Han-Shi Hu

We analyze the accuracy and sample complexity of variational Monte Carlo approaches to simulate the dynamics of many-body quantum systems classically. By systematically studying the relevant stochastic estimators, we are able to: (i) prove…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Alessandro Sinibaldi , Clemens Giuliani , Giuseppe Carleo , Filippo Vicentini

We extend Quantum Computing Quantum Monte Carlo (QCQMC) beyond ground-state energy estimation by systematically constructing the quantum circuits used for state preparation. Replacing the original Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE)…

Obtaining accurate solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation is the key challenge in computational quantum chemistry. Deep-learning-based Variational Monte Carlo (DL-VMC) has recently outperformed conventional approaches in terms of accuracy,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Michael Scherbela , Leon Gerard , Philipp Grohs

Rydberg atom arrays are programmable quantum simulators capable of preparing interacting qubit systems in a variety of quantum states. Due to long experimental preparation times, obtaining projective measurement data can be relatively slow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Stefanie Czischek , M. Schuyler Moss , Matthew Radzihovsky , Ejaaz Merali , Roger G. Melko

The accelerated progress in manufacturing noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing hardware has opened the possibility of exploring its application in transforming approaches to solving computationally challenging problems. The…

Inspired by proposals for continuous-variable quantum approximate optimization (CV-QAOA), we investigate the utility of continuous-variable neural network quantum states (CV-NQS) for performing continuous optimization, focusing on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Yabin Zhang , David Gorsich , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Shravan Veerapaneni

Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) are powerful neural-network ans\"atzes that have emerged as promising tools for studying quantum many-body physics through the lens of the variational principle. These architectures are known to be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-28 Jake McNaughton , Mohamed Hibat-Allah

We investigate the challenge of classical simulation of unitary quantum dynamics with variational Monte Carlo approaches, addressing the instabilities and high computational demands of existing methods. By systematically analyzing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Luca Gravina , Vincenzo Savona , Filippo Vicentini

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 R. J. Needs , M. D. Towler , N. D. Drummond , P. Lopez Rios

We introduce an extension of the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) method that adaptively controls the expressivity of the variational quantum state during the simulation of the dynamics. This adaptive tVMC (atVMC) approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Raffaele Salioni , Rocco Martinazzo , Davide Emilio Galli , Christian Apostoli