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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…

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The auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFMC) method is a powerful and widely used technique for ground-state and finite-temperature simulations of quantum many-body systems. We introduce several algorithmic improvements for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 C. N. Gilbreth , S. Jensen , Y. Alhassid

We employ constrained path Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) in the pursuit of studying physical nuclear systems using a lattice formalism. Since AFQMC has been widely used in the study of condensed-matter systems such as the…

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We review recent advances in the capabilities of the open source ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) package QMCPACK and the workflow tool Nexus used for greater efficiency and reproducibility. The auxiliary field QMC (AFQMC) implementation…

We introduce an efficient approach to implement correlated many-body trial wave functions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). To control the sign/phase problem in AFQMC, a constraint is derived from an exact gauge condition but…

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The accurate computation of forces and other energy derivatives has been a long-standing challenge for quantum Monte Carlo methods. A number of technical obstacles contribute to this challenge. We discuss how these obstacles can be removed…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-29 Siyuan Chen , Shiwei Zhang

In this work, we develop a size extensive Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) approach that scales as $O(N^5)$ for local energy evaluation by treating the Coupled Cluster Singles and Doubles (CCSD) trial wavefunctions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Yichi Zhang , Ankit Mahajan , Yann Damour , Sandeep Sharma

We present a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) technique for calculating the exact finite-temperature properties of Bose-Fermi mixtures. The Bose-Fermi Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (BF-AFQMC) algorithm combines two methods, a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-04 Brenda M. Rubenstein , Shiwei Zhang , David R. Reichman

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

A series of calculations for the first- and second-row post-d elements (Ga-Br and In-I) are presented using the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AF QMC) method. This method is formulated in a Hilbert space defined by any…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Al-Saidi , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

We discuss the Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method applied to dilute neutron matter at finite temperatures. We formulate the discrete Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation for the interaction with finite effective range which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 G. Wlazlowski , P. Magierski

The exact and phaseless variants of Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) have been shown to be capable of producing accurate ground-state energies for a wide variety of systems including those which exhibit substantial electron…

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We present a framework of an auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for multi-orbital Hubbard models. Our formulation can be applied to a Hamiltonian which includes terms for on-site Coulomb interaction for both intra- and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Yukitoshi Motome , Masatoshi Imada

Ab initio auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) is a systematically improvable many-body method, but its application to extended solids has been severely limited by unfavorable computational scaling and memory requirements that…

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Thermalization of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is one of the most promising phenomena for understanding the strong interaction. The energy loss and momentum broadening at low momentum can be well described by a stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Xiaojian Du , Wenyang Qian

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

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 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

To make useful connections with experimental measurements, correlated electronic structure theories must accurately predict chemical properties in addition to energies. We present a finite-difference based algorithm to compute first-order…

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