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This Perspective focuses on the several overlaps between quantum algorithms and Monte Carlo methods in the domains of physics and chemistry. We will analyze the challenges and possibilities of integrating established quantum Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Guglielmo Mazzola

The accurate computation of forces and other energy derivatives has been a long-standing challenge for quantum Monte Carlo methods. A number of technical obstacles contribute to this challenge. We discuss how these obstacles can be removed…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-29 Siyuan Chen , Shiwei Zhang

Phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) has emerged as a promising electronic structure method for correlated electronic systems. However, the quality of its predictions depends critically on the choice of trial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Don Danilov , Brad Ganoe , Leon Otis , Zhi Gong , Zixiang Lu , James Shee

We introduce an efficient approach to implement neural network quantum states (NNQS) as trial wavefunctions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). NNQS are a recently developed class of variational ans\"atze capable of flexibly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Bowen Kan , Huan Ma , Bowen Zhao , Honghui Shang

Solving the electronic structure problem of molecules and solids to high accuracy is a major challenge in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. The rapid emergence and development of quantum computers offer a promising route to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Benchen Huang , Yi-Ting Chen , Brajesh Gupt , Martin Suchara , Anh Tran , Sam McArdle , Giulia Galli

The exact and phaseless variants of Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) have been shown to be capable of producing accurate ground-state energies for a wide variety of systems including those which exhibit substantial electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 James Shee , Shiwei Zhang , David R. Reichman , Richard A. Friesner

Many-electron problems pose some of the greatest challenges in computational science, with important applications across many fields of modern science. Fermionic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are among the most powerful approaches to…

We present an extension of constrained-path auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (CP-AFQMC) for the treatment of correlated electronic systems coupled to phonons. The algorithm follows the standard CP-AFQMC approach for description of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Joonho Lee , Shiwei Zhang , David R. Reichman

We marry tensor network states (TNS) and projector quantum Monte Carlo (PMC) to overcome the high computational scaling of TNS and the sign problem of PMC. Using TNS as trial wavefunctions provides a route to systematically improve the sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-04 Sebastian Wouters , Brecht Verstichel , Dimitri Van Neck , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We propose an algorithm for accurate, systematic and scalable computation of interatomic forces within the auxiliary-field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method. The algorithm relies on the Hellman-Fenyman theorem, and incorporates Pulay…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Mario Motta , Shiwei Zhang

We outline how auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) can leverage graphical processing units (GPUs) to accelerate the simulation of solid state sytems. By exploiting conservation of crystal momentum in the one- and two-electron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Fionn D. Malone , Shuai Zhang , Miguel A. Morales

Solving the ground state of quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge in physics and chemistry. Recent advancements in quantum hardware have opened new avenues for addressing this challenge. Inspired by the quantum-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Longfei Chang , Zhendong Li , Wei-Hai Fang

The auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method provides a computational framework for solving the time-independent Schroedinger equation in atoms, molecules, solids, and a variety of model systems by stochastic sampling. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-19 Shiwei Zhang

We investigate the use of optimized correlation consistent gaussian basis sets for the study of insulating solids with auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). The exponents of the basis set are optimized through the minimization of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Miguel A. Morales , Fionn D. Malone

In this work, we present an overview of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph- AFQMC) approach from a computational quantum chemistry perspective, and present a numerical assessment of its performance on main group chemistry…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Joonho Lee , Hung Q. Pham , David R. Reichman

Phaseless Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) has recently emerged as a promising method for the production of benchmark-level simulations of medium to large-sized molecules, due to its accuracy and favorable polynomial scaling…

We present a plane-wave (PW) implementation of the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method within the projector augmented-wave (PAW) formalism in the Vienna ab initio Simulation Package (VASP). By employing an exact inversion of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Moritz Humer , Martin Schlipf , Zoran Sukurma , Sajad Bazrafshan , Georg Kresse

Auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) has repeatedly demonstrated itself as one of the most accurate quantum many-body methods, capable of simulating both real and model systems. In this article we investigate the application of AFQMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-14 Shuai Zhang , Fionn D. Malone , Miguel A. Morales

Finite temperature auxiliary field-based Quantum Monte Carlo methods, including Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) and Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), have historically assumed pivotal roles in the investigation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tong Shen , Yuan Liu , Yang Yu , Brenda Rubenstein

We report a scalable Fortran implementation of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) and demonstrate its excellent performance and beneficial scaling with respect to system size. Furthermore, we investigate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Z. Sukurma , M. Schlipf , M. Humer , A. Taheridehkordi , G. Kresse