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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

Neural quantum states (NQS) provide a flexible and highly expressive parameterization of wave functions for strongly correlated problems in quantum chemistry. Despite rapid advances in network architectures, the evaluation of electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Marco Julian Solanki , Lexin Ding , Markus Reiher

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) employ artificial neural networks to encode many-body wave functions in second quantization through variational Monte Carlo (VMC). They have recently been applied to accurately describe electronic wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Chang-su Cao , Dingshun Lv , Han-Shi Hu

Computationally intractable tasks are often encountered in physics and optimization. Such tasks often comprise a cost function to be optimized over a so-called feasible set, which is specified by a set of constraints. This may yield, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Borja Requena , Gorka Muñoz-Gil , Maciej Lewenstein , Vedran Dunjko , Jordi Tura

In experimentally realistic situations, quantum systems are never perfectly isolated and the coupling to their environment needs to be taken into account. Often, the effect of the environment can be well approximated by a Markovian master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Michael J. Hartmann , Giuseppe Carleo

Machine-learning-based variational Monte Carlo simulations are a promising approach for targeting quantum many-body ground states, especially in two dimensions and in cases where the ground state is known to have a non-trivial sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-14 M. Schuyler Moss , Roeland Wiersema , Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Juan Carrasquilla , Roger G. Melko

We propose a neural-network variational quantum algorithm to simulate the time evolution of quantum many-body systems. Based on a modified restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) wavefunction ansatz, the proposed algorithm can be efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Chee-Kong Lee , Pranay Patil , Shengyu Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh

We explore the preparation of specific nuclear states on gate-based quantum hardware using variational algorithms. Large scale classical diagonalization of the nuclear shell model have reached sizes of $10^9 - 10^{10}$ basis states, but are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-11 I. Stetcu , A. Baroni , J. Carlson

Solving ground states of quantum many-body systems has been a long-standing problem in condensed matter physics. Here, we propose a new unsupervised machine learning algorithm to find the ground state of a general quantum many-body system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-27 Jiaxin Wu , Wenjuan Zhang

Computing the ground state of interacting quantum matter is a long-standing challenge, especially for complex two-dimensional systems. Recent developments have highlighted the potential of neural quantum states to solve the quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-03 Ao Chen , Markus Heyl

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

We present a variational Monte Carlo algorithm for estimating the lowest excited states of a quantum system which is a natural generalization of the estimation of ground states. The method has no free parameters and requires no explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 David Pfau , Simon Axelrod , Halvard Sutterud , Ingrid von Glehn , James S. Spencer

We propose a new ansatz for the ground-state wave function of quantum many-body systems on a lattice. The key idea is to cover the lattice with plaquettes and obtain a state whose configurational weights can be optimized by means of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fabio Mezzacapo , Norbert Schuch , Massimo Boninsegni , J. Ignacio Cirac

We propose an efficient numerical method, which combines the advantages of recently developed tensor-network based methods and standard trial wave functions, to study the ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-22 Olga Sikora , Hsueh-Wen Chang , Chung-Pin Chou , Frank Pollmann , Ying-Jer Kao

Neural networks have emerged as a powerful way to approach many practical problems in quantum physics. In this work, we illustrate the power of deep learning to predict the dynamics of a quantum many-body system, where the training is…

Inspired by the recent work of Carleo and Troyer[1], we apply machine learning methods to quantum mechanics in this article. The radial basis function network in a discrete basis is used as the variational wavefunction for the ground state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Peiyuan Teng

When combined with highly expressive ansatz functions such as neural quantum states, variational Monte Carlo (VMC) constitutes a versatile numerical approach to tackle the quantum many-body problem in and out of equilibrium. However, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Wladislaw Krinitsin , Markus Schmitt

We introduce a variational Monte Carlo algorithm for approximating finite-temperature quantum many-body systems, based on the minimization of a modified free energy. This approach directly approximates the state at a fixed temperature,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Sirui Lu , Giacomo Giudice , J. Ignacio Cirac

In recent years, the neural-network quantum states method has been investigated to study the ground state and the time evolution of many-body quantum systems. Here we expand on the investigation and consider a quantum quench from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Wenxuan Zhang , Bo Xing , Xiansong Xu , Dario Poletti

A long-standing goal of nuclear theory is to explain how the structure and dynamics of atomic nuclei and neutron-star matter emerge from the underlying interactions among protons and neutrons. Achieving this goal requires solving the…