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We consider a model of an artificial neural network that uses quantum-mechanical particles in a two-humped potential as a neuron. To simulate such a quantum-mechanical system the Monte-Carlo integration method is used. A form of the…

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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

Neural network quantum states (NQS), incorporating with variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method, are shown to be a promising way to investigate quantum many-body physics. Whereas vanilla VMC methods perform one gradient update per sample, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-01 Feng Chen , Ming Xue

We introduce a neural network-based approach for modeling wave functions that satisfy Bose-Einstein statistics. Applying this model to small $^4He_N$ clusters (with N ranging from 2 to 14 atoms), we accurately predict ground state energies,…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2023-12-20 William Freitas , S. A. Vitiello

The complexity of many-body quantum wave functions is a central aspect of several fields of physics and chemistry where non-perturbative interactions are prominent. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proven to be a flexible tool to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 Corey Adams , Giuseppe Carleo , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco

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 type of Monte Carlo approach in numerical studies of quantum systems. Introducing a probability function which determines whether a state in the vector space survives or not, we can evaluate expectation values of powers of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomo Munehisa , Yasuko Munehisa

Monte Carlo methods play a central role in particle physics, where they are indispensable for simulating scattering processes, modeling detector responses, and performing multi-dimensional integrals. However, traditional Monte Carlo methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Heechan Yi , Kayoung Ban , Myeonghun Park , Kyoungchul Kong

With our recently proposed effective Hamiltonian via Monte Carlo, we are able to compute low energy physics of quantum systems. The advantage is that we can obtain not only the spectrum of ground and excited states, but also wave functions.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Xiang-Qian Luo , C. Q. Huang , J. Q. Jiang , H. Jirari , H. Kroeger , K. Moriarty

We investigate the use of different variational principles in quantum Monte Carlo, namely energy and variance minimization, prompted by the interest in the robust and accurate estimate of electronic excited states. For two prototypical,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Alice Cuzzocrea , Anthony Scemama , Wim J. Briels , Saverio Moroni , Claudia Filippi

Contemporary scientific studies often rely on the understanding of complex quantum systems via computer simulation. This paper initiates the statistical study of quantum simulation and proposes a Monte Carlo method for estimating…

Applications · Statistics 2011-08-04 Yazhen Wang

Nuclear physics seeks to describe both bound and unbound states within a unified predictive framework. While coordinate-space Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have successfully computed bound states for systems with $A \leq 12$, their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Abraham R. Flores , Kenneth M. Nollett , Maria Piarulli

Excited states play a central role in determining the physical properties of quantum matter, yet their accurate computation in many-body systems remains a formidable challenge for numerical methods. While neural quantum states have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Douglas Hendry , Alessandro Sinibaldi , Giuseppe Carleo

An intrinsic measure of the quality of a variational wave function is given by its overlap with the ground state of the system. We derive a general formula to compute this overlap when quantum dynamics in imaginary time is accessible. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-26 Christophe Mora , Xavier Waintal

We utilize neural network quantum states (NQS) to investigate the ground state properties of the Heisenberg model on a Shastry-Sutherland lattice using the variational Monte Carlo method. We show that already relatively simple NQSs can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-07 Matěj Mezera , Jana Menšíková , Pavel Baláž , Martin Žonda

Many strongly correlated states, such as those arising in the fractional quantum Hall effect and spin liquids, are described by wave functions obtained by dividing particles into multiple clusters, constructing a readily evaluable wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-24 Koyena Bose , Steven H. Simon , Ajit C. Balram

The Variational Monte Carlo method has recently seen important advances through the use of neural network quantum states. While more and more sophisticated ans\"atze have been designed to tackle a wide variety of quantum many-body problems,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-09 M. Drissi , J. W. T. Keeble , J. Rozalén Sarmiento , A. Rios

Accurate ab initio calculations are of fundamental importance in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science, which have witnessed rapid development in the last couple of years with the help of machine learning computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Yubing Qian , Weizhong Fu , Weiluo Ren , Ji Chen

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

Neural networks are emerging as a powerful tool for determining the quantum states of interacting many-body fermionic systems. The standard approach trains a neural-network ansatz by minimizing the mean local energy estimated from Monte…

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