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We obtain several quantitative bounds on the mixing properties of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm for a strongly log-concave target distribution $\pi$ on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, showing that HMC mixes quickly in this setting. One of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Oren Mangoubi , Aaron Smith

The bold diagrammatic Monte Carlo (BDMC) method performs an unbiased sampling of Feynman's diagrammatic series using skeleton diagrams. For lattice models the efficiency of BDMC can be dramatically improved by incorporating dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. Pollet , N. V. Prokof'ev , B. V. Svistunov

We present diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and path-integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) calculations of a one-dimensional Bose system with realistic interparticle interactions in a periodic external potential. Our main aim is to test the predictions of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-19 K. Dzelalija , L. Vranjes Markic

Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful tool to investigate the thermodynamic properties of atomic systems. In practice however, sampling of the complete configuration space is often hindered by high energy barriers between different regions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-04 Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker

We present optimized tight-binding models with atomic orbitals to improve \textit{ab initio} tight-binding models constructed by truncating full density functional theory (DFT) Hamiltonian based on localized orbitals. Retaining qualitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Sejoong Kim

We derive an automatic procedure for generating a set of highly localized, non-orthogonal orbitals for linear scaling quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We demonstrate the advantage of these orbitals in calculations of the total energy of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 F. A. Reboredo , A. J. Williamson

We study the underdamped Langevin diffusion when the log of the target distribution is smooth and strongly concave. We present a MCMC algorithm based on its discretization and show that it achieves $\varepsilon$ error (in 2-Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-30 Xiang Cheng , Niladri S. Chatterji , Peter L. Bartlett , Michael I. Jordan

Aharony and Fisher showed that non-local dipolar effects in magnetism destabilize the Heisenberg fixed point in real ferromagnets, leading to a new fixed point, called the dipolar fixed point. The non-perturbative nature of the new fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-10 Etsuko Itou , Akira Matsumoto , Yu Nakayama , Toshiki Onagi

Message-Passing Monte Carlo (MPMC) was recently introduced as a novel low-discrepancy sampling approach leveraging tools from geometric deep learning. While originally designed for generating uniform point sets, we extend this framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Nathan Kirk , T. Konstantin Rusch , Jakob Zech , Daniela Rus

The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) method has been recognized as a powerful sampling tool in computational statistics. We show that performance of HMC can be significantly improved by incorporating importance sampling and an irreversible…

Computation · Statistics 2019-07-26 Tijana Radivojević , Elena Akhmatskaya

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a powerful Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for performing approximate inference in complex probabilistic models of continuous variables. In common with many MCMC methods, however, the standard HMC…

Computation · Statistics 2017-04-12 Matthew M. Graham , Amos J. Storkey

In this comprehensive and detailed study, vacancy-mediated self-diffusion of A- and B-elements in 'triple-defect' B2-ordered ASB(1-S) binaries is simulated by means of a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithm involving atomic jumps to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-16 Jan Betlej , Piotr Sowa , Rafal Kozubski , Graeme E. Murch , Irina V. Belova

We develop a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method based on a strong-coupling expansion for Anderson impurity models with phonon-assisted hybridizations for arbitrary number of phonon modes. As a benchmark, we investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Kazumasa Hattori

We present a systematic downfolding many-body approach for extended systems. Many-body calculations operate on a simpler Hamiltonian which retains material-specific properties. The Hamiltonian is systematically improvable and allows one to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-02 Fengjie Ma , Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

Multi-center transition metal complexes (MCTMs) with magnetically interacting ions have been proposed as components for information processing devices and storage units. For any practical application of MCTMs as magnetic units, it is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Henry C. Fitzhugh , James W. Furness , Mark R. Pederson , Juan E. Peralta , Jianwei Sun

In Bayesian inference, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a popular Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm known for its efficiency in sampling from complex probability distributions. However, its application to models with latent…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-15 Alaa Amri , Víctor Elvira , Amy L. Wilson

We present a first-principle numerical study of charge transport in a realistic two-dimensional tight-binding model of organic molecular semiconductors. We use the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm to simulate the full quantum dynamics of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Johann Ostmeyer , Tahereh Nematiaram , Alessandro Troisi , Pavel Buividovich

We use the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) method to calculate the ground state phase diagram of solid molecular hydrogen and examine the stability of the most important insulating phases relative to metallic crystalline molecular…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Azadi , W. M. C. Foulkes , T. D. Kuehne

The nature of freezing and melting transitions for a system of model colloids interacting by a DLVO potential in a spatially periodic external potential is studied using extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Detailed finite size scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Strepp , S. Sengupta , P. Nielaba

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a state-of-the-art Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithm for drawing samples from smooth probability densities over continuous spaces. We study the variant most widely used in practice, Metropolized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-12 Yuansi Chen , Raaz Dwivedi , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu