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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

We present an accurate numerical study of the equation of state of nuclear matter based on realistic nucleon--nucleon interactions by means of Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo (AFDMC) calculations. The AFDMC method samples the spin and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gandolfi , F. Pederiva , S. Fantoni , K. E. Schmidt

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are powerful techniques for studying strongly interacting Fermi systems. However, implementing these methods on computers with finite-precision arithmetic requires careful attention to numerical stability. In the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. N. Gilbreth , Y. Alhassid

We extend correlated sampling from classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo to the quantum-classical (QC-AFQMC) framework, enabling accurate nuclear force computations crucial for geometry optimization and reaction dynamics. Stochastic…

Lattice gauge theories coupled to fermionic matter account for many interesting phenomena in both high energy physics and condensed matter physics. Certain regimes, e.g. at finite fermion density, are difficult to simulate with traditional…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-16 Julian Bender , Patrick Emonts , J. Ignacio Cirac

Transition metal complexes are ubiquitous in biology and chemical catalysis, yet they remain difficult to accurately describe with ab initio methods due to the presence of a large degree of dynamic electron correlation, and, in some cases,…

We propose a new sampling method to calculate the ground state of interacting quantum systems. This method, which we call the adaptive sampling quantum monte carlo (ASQMC) method utilises information from the high temperature density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoshihiro ASAI

The chromium dimer (Cr2) presents an outstanding challenge for many-body electronic structure methods. Its complicated nature of binding, with a formal sextuple bond and an unusual potential energy curve, is emblematic of the competing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

A study for checking validity of the auxiliary field method (AFM) is made in quantum mechanical four-fermi models which act as a prototype of models for chiral symmetry breaking in Quantum Electrodynamics. It has been shown that AFM,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Taro Kashiwa , Tomohiko Sakaguchi

We present an approach that uses the doubly occupied configuration interaction (DOCI) wave function as the trial wave function in phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC). DOCI is a seniority-zero method focused on electron…

For optimal accuracy, auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) requires trial states consisting of multiple Slater determinants. We develop an efficient algorithm to select the determinants from an AFQMC random walk eliminating the need…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Zoran Sukurma , Martin Schlipf , 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

We present an \textit{ab initio} auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo method for studying the electronic structure of molecules, solids, and model Hamiltonians at finite temperature. The algorithm marries the \textit{ab initio} phaseless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-13 Yuan Liu , Minsik Cho , Brenda Rubenstein

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

The recently developed auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method is applied to compute the equation of state and the compressibility of neutron matter. By combining diffusion Monte Carlo for the spatial degrees of freedom and auxiliary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sarsa , S. Fantoni , K. E. Schmidt , F. Pederiva

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques are widely used in a variety of scientific problems and much work has been dedicated to developing optimized algorithms that can accelerate QMC on standard processors (CPU). With the advent of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Shuvro Chowdhury , Kerem Y. Camsari , Supriyo Datta

We formulate a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for calculating the ground state of many-boson systems. The method is based on a field-theoretical approach, and is closely related to existing fermion auxiliary-field QMC methods which are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wirawan Purwanto , 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

We describe the implementation of the frozen-orbital and downfolding approximations in the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method. These approaches can provide significant computational savings compared to fully correlating all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

We develop an all-electron quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for solids that does not rely on pseudopotentials, and use it to construct a primary ultra-high pressure calibration based the equation of state of cubic boron nitride(c-BN). We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 K. P. Esler , R. E. Cohen , B. Militzer , Jeongnim Kim , R. J. Needs , M. D. Towler