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This work gives a detailed investigation of matrix product state (MPS) representations for pure multipartite quantum states. We determine the freedom in representations with and without translation symmetry, derive respective canonical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-02 D. Perez-Garcia , F. Verstraete , M. M. Wolf , J. I. Cirac

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

For important classes of many-fermion problems, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods allow exact calculations of ground-state and finite-temperature properties, without the sign problem. The list spans condensed matter, nuclear physics, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

Finding the ground state of a fermionic Hamiltonian using quantum Monte Carlo is a very difficult problem, due to the Fermi sign problem. While still scaling exponentially, full configuration-interaction Monte Carlo (FCI-QMC) mitigates some…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Bryan K. Clark

We employ machine learning techniques to provide accurate variational wavefunctions for matrix quantum mechanics, with multiple bosonic and fermionic matrices. Variational quantum Monte Carlo is implemented with deep generative flows to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Xizhi Han , Sean A. Hartnoll

We describe CPMC-Lab, a Matlab program for the constrained-path and phaseless auxiliary-field Monte Carlo methods. These methods have allowed applications ranging from the study of strongly correlated models, such as the Hubbard model, to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-14 Huy Nguyen , Hao Shi , Jie Xu , Shiwei Zhang

We introduce a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that dramatically accelerates the simulation of quantum many-body systems, a grand challenge in computational science. State-of-the-art methods for these problems are severely limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Deqian Kong , Shi Feng , Jianwen Xie , Ying Nian Wu

The matrix product state (MPS) ansatz offers a promising approach for finding the ground state of molecular Hamiltonians and solving quantum chemistry problems. Building on this concept, the proposed technique of quantum circuit MPS (QCMPS)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Hao-En Li , Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Zhu-Ping Shen , Chen Zhao , Jun Li , Han-Shi Hu

We present extensive \textit{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of two-dimensional quantum dipole systems in a harmonic confinement, taking into account both Bose- and Fermi-statistics. This allows us to study the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Tobias Dornheim

I introduce a modification of continuous matrix product states (CMPS) that makes them adapted to relativistic quantum field theories (QFT). These relativistic CMPS can be used to solve genuine 1+1 dimensional QFT without UV cutoff and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Antoine Tilloy

A recent preprint by Mazzola and Carleo numerically investigates exponential challenges that can arise for the QC-QMC algorithm introduced in our work, "Unbiasing fermionic quantum Monte Carlo with a quantum computer." As discussed in our…

We derive analytically the leading beyond-mean field contributions to the zero-temperature equation of state and to the fermionic quasi-particle residue and effective mass of a dilute Bose-Fermi mixture in two dimensions. In the repulsive…

We investigate the QCD phase diagram in the strong coupling limit by using a newly developed auxiliary field Monte-Carlo (AFMC) method. Starting from an effective action in the leading order of the 1/g^2 and 1/d expansion with one species…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-13 Akira Ohnishi , Terukazu Ichihara , Takashi Z. Nakano

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms have long relied on Jastrow factors to incorporate dynamic correlation into trial wave functions. While Jastrow-type wave functions have been widely employed in real-space algorithms, they have seen…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Chia-Chen Chang , Brenda M. Rubenstein , Miguel A. Morales

Matrix product states (MPS) are a central language for one-dimensional quantum matter and a practical target for near-term quantum simulators and variational algorithms. Yet, while substantial effort has focused on preparing MPS with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Hyunho Cha , Subin Kim , Jungwoo Lee

We extend the formalism of Matrix Product States (MPS) to describe one-dimensional gapped systems of fermions with both unitary and anti-unitary symmetries. Additionally, systems with orientation-reversing spatial symmetries are considered.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-24 Alex Turzillo , Minyoung You

We revisit the infinite variance problem in fermionic Monte Carlo simulations, which is widely encountered in areas ranging from condensed matter to nuclear and high-energy physics. The different algorithms, which we broadly refer to as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhou-Quan Wan , Shiwei Zhang

In this work, we develop a stochastic matrix product state (stoMPS) approach that combines the MPS technique and Monte Carlo samplings and can be applied to simulate quantum lattice models down to low temperature. In particular, we exploit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-08 Jianxin Gao , Yuan Gao , Qiaoyi Li , Wei Li

We describe and discuss a recently proposed quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to compute the ground-state properties of various systems of interacting fermions. In this method, the ground state is projected from an initial wave function by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Shiwei Zhang , J. Carlson , J. E. Gubernatis

We extend the recently introduced continuous matrix product state (cMPS) variational class to the setting of (1+1)-dimensional relativistic quantum field theories. This allows one to overcome the difficulties highlighted by Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-13 Jutho Haegeman , J. Ignacio Cirac , Tobias J. Osborne , Henri Verschelde , Frank Verstraete