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Deep-Learning-based Variational Monte Carlo (DL-VMC) has recently emerged as a highly accurate approach for finding approximate solutions to the many-electron Schr\"odinger equation. Despite its favorable scaling with the number of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Leon Gerard , Michael Scherbela , Halvard Sutterud , Matthew Foulkes , Philipp Grohs

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

A faithful description of chemical processes requires exploring extended regions of the molecular potential energy surface (PES), which remains challenging for strongly correlated systems. Transferable deep-learning variational Monte Carlo…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 P. Bernát Szabó , Zeno Schätzle , Frank Noé

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

We provide theoretical convergence bounds for the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method as applied to optimize neural network wave functions for the electronic structure problem. We study both the energy minimization phase and the supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Nilin Abrahamsen , Zhiyan Ding , Gil Goldshlager , Lin Lin

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

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a powerful and expressive ansatz for representing quantum many-body wave functions. However, their training via Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) methods remains challenging. It is well known that some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Antoine Misery , Luca Gravina , Alessandro Santini , Filippo Vicentini

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

Finding accurate solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation is the key unsolved challenge of computational chemistry. Given its importance for the development of new chemical compounds, decades of research have been dedicated to this problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Leon Gerard , Michael Scherbela , Philipp Marquetand , Philipp Grohs

Scientific computing has long relied on double precision (64-bit floating point) arithmetic to guarantee accuracy in simulations of real-world phenomena. However, the growing availability of hardware accelerators such as Graphics Processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Massimo Solinas , Agnes Valenti , Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Roeland Wiersema

An appropriate iterative scheme for the minimization of the energy, based on the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) technique, is introduced and compared with existing stochastic schemes. We test the various methods for the 1D Heisenberg ring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Sandro Sorella

Artificial neural networks have been successfully incorporated into variational Monte Carlo method (VMC) to study quantum many-body systems. However, there have been few systematic studies of exploring quantum many-body physics using deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-26 Li Yang , Zhaoqi Leng , Guangyuan Yu , Ankit Patel , Wen-Jun Hu , Han Pu

Solving the quantum many-body Schr\"odinger equation is a fundamental and challenging problem in the fields of quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and material sciences. One of the common computational approaches to this problem is Quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Kirill Neklyudov , Jannes Nys , Luca Thiede , Juan Carrasquilla , Qiang Liu , Max Welling , Alireza Makhzani

The VB-QMC method is presented in this chapter. It consists of using in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approaches with a wave function expressed as a usually short expansion of classical Valence-Bond (VB) structures supplemented by a Jastrow…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Slavko Radenković , Dominik Domin , Julien Toulouse , Benoît Braïda

In this work, we introduce three algorithmic improvements to reduce the cost and improve the scaling of orbital space variational Monte Carlo (VMC). First, we show that by appropriately screening the one- and two-electron integrals of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Iliya Sabzevari , Sandeep Sharma

Variational quantum calculations have borrowed many tools and algorithms from the machine learning community in the recent years. Leveraging great expressive power and efficient gradient-based optimization, researchers have shown that trial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-19 Matija Medvidović , Javier Robledo Moreno

Variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) combined with neural-network quantum states offers a novel angle of attack on the curse-of-dimensionality encountered in a particular class of partial differential equations (PDEs); namely, the real-…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Tianchen Zhao , Chuhao Sun , Asaf Cohen , James Stokes , Shravan Veerapaneni

We propose a new variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method with an energy variance extrapolation for large-scale shell-model calculations. This variational Monte Carlo is a stochastic optimization method with a projected correlated condensed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-14 Takahiro Mizusaki , Noritaka Shimizu

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) based on fixed-node approximation has enjoyed significant developments in the past decades and become one of the go-to methods when accurate ground state energy of molecules and materials is needed. The remaining…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Weiluo Ren , Weizhong Fu , Xiaojie Wu , Ji Chen

Neural-network variational Monte Carlo (NNVMC) has emerged as a powerful tool for solving quantum many-body problems, yet systematic pathways for improving its accuracy remain largely heuristic. Here, we introduce a physically motivated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-20 Zhixuan Liu , Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang
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