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Quantum many-body problems are some of the most challenging problems in science and are central to demystifying some exotic quantum phenomena, e.g., high-temperature superconductors. The combination of neural networks (NN) for representing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Or Sharir , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Anima Anandkumar

Ab-initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are a state-of-the-art computational approach to obtaining highly accurate many-body wave functions. Although QMC methods are widely used in physics and chemistry to compute ground-state energies,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Kousuke Nakano , Abhishek Raghav , Sandro Sorella

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

Neural network parametrizations have increasingly been used to represent the ground and excited states in variational Monte Carlo (VMC) with promising results. However, traditional VMC methods only optimize the wave function in regions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Huan Zhang , Robert J. Webber , Michael Lindsey , Timothy C. Berkelbach , Jonathan Weare

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have received considerable attention over the last decades due to their great promise for providing a direct solution to the many-body Schrodinger equation in electronic systems. Thanks to their low scaling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 M. A. Morales , J. McMinis , B. K. Clark , J. Kim , G. Scuseria

Variational quantum algorithms are poised to have significant impact on high-dimensional optimization, with applications in classical combinatorics, quantum chemistry, and condensed matter. Nevertheless, the optimization landscape of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Taylor L. Patti , Omar Shehab , Khadijeh Najafi , Susanne F. Yelin

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

Accurate numerical solutions for the Schr\"odinger equation are of utmost importance in quantum chemistry. However, the computational cost of current high-accuracy methods scales poorly with the number of interacting particles. Combining…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Michael Scherbela , Rafael Reisenhofer , Leon Gerard , Philipp Marquetand , Philipp Grohs

Machine learning and specifically deep-learning methods have outperformed human capabilities in many pattern recognition and data processing problems, in game playing, and now also play an increasingly important role in scientific…

We provide a pedagogical introduction to the two main variants of real-space quantum Monte Carlo methods for electronic-structure calculations: variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC). Assuming no prior knowledge on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Julien Toulouse , Roland Assaraf , C. J. Umrigar

Deep learning has deeply changed the paradigms of many research fields. At the heart of chemical and physical sciences is the accurate ab initio calculation of many-body wavefunction, which has become one of the most notable examples to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yubing Qian , Xiang Li , Zhe Li , Weiluo Ren , Ji Chen

A paramount goal in the field of nuclear physics is to unify ab-initio treatments of bound and unbound states. The position-space quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have a long history of successful bound state calculations in light systems…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-29 Abraham R. Flores , Kenneth M. Nollett

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

Variational quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an ab-initio method for solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation that is exact in principle, but limited by the flexibility of the available ansatzes in practice. The recently introduced deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Zeno Schätzle , Jan Hermann , Frank Noé

The integration of deep neural networks with the Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method has marked a significant advancement in solving the Schr\"odinger equation. In this work, we enforce spin symmetry in the neural network-based VMC…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Zhe Li , Zixiang Lu , Ruichen Li , Xuelan Wen , Xiang Li , Liwei Wang , Ji Chen , Weiluo Ren

Given access to accurate solutions of the many-electron Schr\"odinger equation, nearly all chemistry could be derived from first principles. Exact wavefunctions of interesting chemical systems are out of reach because they are NP-hard to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 David Pfau , James S. Spencer , Alexander G. de G. Matthews , W. M. C. Foulkes

The variational quantum Monte Carlo (VQMC) method received significant attention in the recent past because of its ability to overcome the curse of dimensionality inherent in many-body quantum systems. Close parallels exist between VQMC and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Tianchen Zhao , Saibal De , Brian Chen , James Stokes , Shravan Veerapaneni

Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a state-of-the-art numerical approach for evaluating accurate expectation values of many-body wavefunctions. However, one of the major drawbacks that still hinders widespread QMC applications is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-17 Kousuke Nakano , Michele Casula , Giacomo Tenti

Many probabilistic models of interest in scientific computing and machine learning have expensive, black-box likelihoods that prevent the application of standard techniques for Bayesian inference, such as MCMC, which would require access to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Luigi Acerbi

The introduction of Neural Quantum States (NQS) has recently given a new twist to variational Monte Carlo (VMC). The ability to systematically reduce the bias of the wave function ansatz renders the approach widely applicable. However,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Markus Schmitt , Moritz Reh