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We incorporate explicit, non-perturbative treatment of spin-orbit coupling into ab initio auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) calculations. The approach allows a general computational framework for molecular and bulk systems in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-16 Brandon Eskridge , Henry Krakauer , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We have developed PyTIE (Python Topological Indices Expressions) which is defined as the collections of Python packages such as PyTIE D, PyTIE DS, PyTIE SMS DE, and PyTIE SMS DSE, which are open-source software packages and cross-platform…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Sahaya Vijay Jeyaraj , Roy S , Govardhan S , Tony Augustine , Jyothish K

Monte Carlo integration is a widely used numerical method for approximating integrals, which is often computationally expensive. In recent years, quantum computing has shown promise for speeding up Monte Carlo integration, and several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Jorge J. Martínez de Lejarza , Michele Grossi , Leandro Cieri , Germán Rodrigo

Atomic-scale simulations have progressed tremendously over the past decade, largely due to the availability of machine-learning interatomic potentials. These potentials combine the accuracy of electronic structure calculations with the…

We introduce QC-CBT-AFQMC, a hybrid algorithm that incorporates computational basis tomography (CBT) into the quantum-classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) method proposed by Huggins et al. [Nature 603, 416-420 (2022)],…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Viktor Khinevich , Wataru Mizukami

Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) cores offers significant performance and energy benefits for neural network inference with respect to digital logic (e.g., CPUs). AIMCs accelerate matrix-vector multiplications, which dominate these…

We introduce a black-box auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) approach to perform highly accurate electronic structure calculations using configuration interaction singles and doubles (CISD) trial states. This method consistently…

Phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) has emerged as a promising electronic structure method for correlated electronic systems. However, the quality of its predictions depends critically on the choice of trial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Don Danilov , Brad Ganoe , Leon Otis , Zhi Gong , Zixiang Lu , James Shee

We present a continuous-time Monte Carlo method for quantum impurity models, which combines a weak-coupling expansion with an auxiliary-field decomposition. The method is considerably more efficient than Hirsch-Fye and free of time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-02 Emanuel Gull , Philipp Werner , Olivier Parcollet , Matthias Troyer

We report modifications of the ph-AFQMC algorithm that allow the use of large time steps and reliable time step extrapolation. Our modified algorithm eliminates size-consistency errors present in the standard algorithm when large time steps…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Zoran Sukurma , Martin Schlipf , Moritz Humer , Amir Taheridehkordi , Georg Kresse

Practitioners wishing to experience the efficiency gains from using low discrepancy sequences need correct, robust, well-written software. This article, based on our MCQMC 2020 tutorial, describes some of the better quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC)…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sou-Cheng T. Choi , Fred J. Hickernell , R. Jagadeeswaran , Michael J. McCourt , Aleksei G. Sorokin

In this work we present an efficient implementation of Canonical Monte Carlo simulation for Coulomb many body systems on graphics processing units (GPU). Our method takes advantage of the GPU Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 Yihao Liang , Xiangjun Xing , Yaohang Li

Finite temperature auxiliary field-based Quantum Monte Carlo methods, including Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) and Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), have historically assumed pivotal roles in the investigation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tong Shen , Yuan Liu , Yang Yu , Brenda Rubenstein

We present a plane-wave (PW) implementation of the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method within the projector augmented-wave (PAW) formalism in the Vienna ab initio Simulation Package (VASP). By employing an exact inversion of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Moritz Humer , Martin Schlipf , Zoran Sukurma , Sajad Bazrafshan , Georg Kresse

Recent developments in path integral methodology have significantly reduced the computational expense of including quantum mechanical effects in the nuclear motion in ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. However, the implementation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Michele Ceriotti , Joshua More , David E. Manolopoulos

In this work, we report, for the first time, an implementation of fermionic auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) using matrix product state (MPS) trial wavefunctions, dubbed MPS-AFQMC. Calculating overlaps between an MPS trial and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Tong Jiang , Bryan O'Gorman , Ankit Mahajan , Joonho Lee

Auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) has repeatedly demonstrated itself as one of the most accurate quantum many-body methods, capable of simulating both real and model systems. In this article we investigate the application of AFQMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-14 Shuai Zhang , Fionn D. Malone , Miguel A. Morales

Accurate computation of non-covalent, intermolecular interaction energies is important to understand various chemical phenomena, and quantum computers are anticipated to accelerate it. Although the state-of-the-art quantum computers are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Yuhei Tachi , Akihiko Arakawa , Taisei Osawa , Masayoshi Terabe , Kenji Sugisaki

The PySCF package has emerged as a powerful and flexible open-source platform for quantum chemistry simulations. However, the efficiency of electronic structure calculations can vary significantly depending on the choice of computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Zhichen Pu , Qiming Sun

Quantum simulation of molecular electronic structure is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, achieving chemically accurate predictions for strongly correlated systems requires quantum phase estimation (QPE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Shota Kanasugi , Riki Toshio , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima