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The reduced density matrix of excitons coupled to a phonon bath at a finite temperature is studied using the path integral Monte Carlo method. Appropriate choices of estimators and importance sampling schemes are crucial to the performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sangwoo Shim , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Ultracold atomic systems have been of great research interest in the past, with more recent attention being paid to systems of mixed species. In this work we carry out non-perturbative Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of N…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-19 William G. Dawkins , Alexandros Gezerlis

It was recently shown that path integral Monte Carlo can be used to directly compute partition functions of Hamiltonians with vibronic coupling [J. Chem. Phys. 148, 194110 (2018)]. While the importance sampling Monte Carlo integration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Neil Raymond , Pierre-Nicholas Roy , Marcel Nooijen

Typical path integral Monte Carlo approaches use the primitive approximation to compute the probability density for a given path. In this work, we develop the pair Discrete Variable Representation (pair-DVR) approach to study molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Shaeer Moeed , Tobias Serwatka , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

Monte Carlo methods are essential tools for Bayesian inference. Gibbs sampling is a well-known Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, extensively used in signal processing, machine learning, and statistics, employed to draw samples from…

Computation · Statistics 2017-12-21 Luca Martino , Victor Elvira , Gustau Camps-Valls

Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods are used to carry out inference in non-linear and non-Gaussian state space models, where the posterior density of the states is approximated using particles. Current approaches usually perform…

Computation · Statistics 2019-09-30 Eduardo F. Mendes , Christopher K. Carter , David Gunawan , Robert Kohn

We introduce a novel and flexible framework for constructing locally adaptive Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) samplers by Gibbs sampling the algorithm's tuning parameters conditionally based on the position and momentum at each step. For…

Computation · Statistics 2025-06-26 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Bob Carpenter , Milo Marsden

The particle Gibbs sampler is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to sample from the full posterior distribution of a state-space model. It does so by executing Gibbs sampling steps on an extended target distribution defined on the…

Computation · Statistics 2015-07-29 Nicolas Chopin , Sumeetpal S. Singh

Inference for Dirichlet process hierarchical models is typically performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, which can be roughly categorised into marginal and conditional methods. The former integrate out analytically the…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-10-24 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Gareth Roberts

We combine ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations with fixed ion configurations from density functional theory molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) simulations to solve the electronic problem for hydrogen under warm dense matter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Maximilian Böhme , Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

The accurate description of non-ideal quantum many-body systems is of prime importance for a host of applications within physics, quantum chemistry, material science, and related disciplines. At finite temperatures, the gold standard is…

A path-integral hybrid Monte Carlo approach with enveloping bridging potentials (PIHMC-EBP) is proposed for calculating numerically exact tunneling splittings in molecular systems. The central idea is to construct an approximately…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yu-Chen Wang , Jeremy O. Richardson

The quantum theory of the Friedmann cosmological model with dust and cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) is not exactly solvable analytically. We apply Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) techniques to study its quantum dynamics using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-10 Masooma Ali , Syed Moeez Hassan , Viqar Husain

Correlated fermions are of high interest in condensed matter (Fermi liquids, Wigner molecules), cold atomic gases and dense plasmas. Here we propose a novel approach to path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of strongly degenerate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-15 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Alexey Filinov , Michael Bonitz

We present here two irreversible Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for general discrete state systems, one of the algorithms is based on the random-scan Gibbs sampler for discrete states and the other on its improved version, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-08 Fahim Faizi , George Deligiannidis , Edina Rosta

We present a sampling-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) method that implements Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) as an \emph{Ising machine}, suitable for novel forms of probabilistic computing. By expressing the control problem as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Lorin Werthen-Brabants , Pieter Simoens

We review the use of the path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) methodology to the study of finite-size quantum clusters, with particular emphasis on recent applications to pure and impurity-doped He clusters. We describe the principles of PIMC,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Patrick Huang , Yongkyung Kwon , K. Birgitta Whaley

Path integral (PI) control problems are a restricted class of non-linear control problems that can be solved formally as a Feyman-Kac path integral and can be estimated using Monte Carlo sampling. In this contribution we review path…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Hilbert Johan Kappen , Hans Christian Ruiz

We present extensive new \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for a variety of structural properties of warm dense hydrogen and beryllium. To deal with the fermion sign problem -- an exponential computational bottleneck…

An intriguing new class of piecewise deterministic Markov processes (PDMPs) has recently been proposed as an alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). In order to facilitate the application to a larger class of problems, we propose a…

Computation · Statistics 2022-05-24 Matthias Sachs , Deborshee Sen , Jianfeng Lu , David Dunson