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Treating the fermionic ground state problem as a constrained stochastic optimization problem, a formalism for fermionic quantum Monte Carlo is developed that makes no reference to a trial wavefunction. Exchange symmetry is enforced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-14 Michael Hutcheon

A balanced description of both static and dynamic correlations in electronic systems with nearly degenerate low-lying states presents a challenge for multi-configurational methods on classical computers. We present here a quantum algorithm…

Computations of chemical systems' equilibrium properties and non-equilibrium dynamics have been suspected of being a "killer app" for quantum computers. This review highlights the recent advancements of quantum algorithms tackling complex…

We introduce an efficient neural network (NN) architecture for classifying wave functions in terms of their localization. Our approach integrates a versatile quantum phase space parametrization leading to a custom 'quantum' NN, with the…

Development of exponentially scaling methods has seen great progress in tackling larger systems than previously thought possible. One such technique, full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo, is a useful algorithm that allows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-23 Norm M. Tubman , Joonho Lee , Tyler Y. Takeshita , Martin Head-Gordon , K. Birgitta Whaley

In a quantum computer any superposition of inputs evolves unitarily into the corresponding superposition of outputs. It has been recently demonstrated that such computers can dramatically speed up the task of finding factors of large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 I. Chuang , Raymond Laflamme , P. Shor , W. Zurek

Sorting algorithms are fundamental to computer science, and their correctness criteria are well understood as rearranging elements of a list according to a specified total order on the underlying set of elements. As mathematical functions,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Vikraman Choudhury , Wind Wong

For many decades, quantum chemical method development has been dominated by algorithms which involve increasingly complex series of tensor contractions over one-electron orbital spaces. Procedures for their derivation and implementation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 George H. Booth , Simon D. Smart , Ali Alavi

We design and implement a novel algorithm for computing a multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) estimator of the cumulative distribution function of a quantity of interest in problems with random input parameters or initial conditions. Our approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Søren Taverniers , Daniel M. Tartakovsky

Permutation-invariant, -equivariant, and -covariant functions and anti-symmetric functions are important in quantum physics, computer vision, and other disciplines. Applications often require most or all of the following properties: (a) a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Marcus Hutter

Scalable quantum computing is fundamentally bottlenecked not by qubit count or fabrication yield, but by a rigid temporal mismatch: macroscopic classical coordination latency ($\tau_c$) inevitably grows with system diameter, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Bo Fan , Renzhou Fang , Yuntao Zhang , Xiaolong Yuan , Dafa Zhao

We develop a scalable multi-step Monte Carlo algorithm for inference under a large class of nonparametric Bayesian models for clustering and classification. Each step is "embarrassingly parallel" and can be implemented using the same Markov…

Computation · Statistics 2018-06-08 Yang Ni , Peter Müller , Maurice Diesendruck , Sinead Williamson , Yitan Zhu , Yuan Ji

The canonical Schmidt decomposition of quantum states is discussed and its implementation to the Quantum Computation Simulator is outlined. In particular, the semiorder relation in the space of quantum states induced by the lexicographic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Roman Gielerak , Marek Sawerwain

We introduce an efficient numerical implementation of a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to sample a probability distribution on a manifold (introduced theoretically in Zappa, Holmes-Cerfon, Goodman (2018)), where the manifold is defined by…

Computation · Statistics 2023-08-22 Kerun Xu , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

Classical algorithms for predicting the equilibrium geometry of strongly correlated molecules require expensive wave function methods that become impractical already for few-atom systems. In this work, we introduce a variational quantum…

A new Monte Carlo method is proposed for fermion systems interacting with classical degrees of freedom. To obtain a weight for each Monte Carlo sample with a fixed configuration of classical variables, the moment expansion of the density of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Yukitoshi Motome , Nobuo Furukawa

The nuclear shell model is known to describe the properties of various nuclei extremely well. However, the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo calculations cannot be applied to it with general interactions due to the sign problem. The model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Yuhma Asano , Yuta Ito , Jun Nishimura , Noritaka Shimizu

A potential approach for demonstrating quantum advantage is using quantum computers to simulate fermionic systems. Quantum algorithms for fermionic system simulation usually involve the Hamiltonian evolution and measurements. However, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Qing-Song Li , Jiaxuan Zhang , Huan-Yu Liu , Qingchun Wang , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Classification, the computational process of categorizing an input into pre-existing classes, is now a cornerstone in modern computation in the era of machine learning. Here we propose a new type of quantum classifier, based on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Shmuel Lorber , Oded Zimron , Inbal Lorena Zak , Anat Milo , Yonatan Dubi

Probabilistic (or Bayesian) modeling and learning offers interesting possibilities for systematic representation of uncertainty using probability theory. However, probabilistic learning often leads to computationally challenging problems.…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-14 Andreas Svensson , Thomas B. Schön , Fredrik Lindsten