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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…

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We introduce an efficient approach to implement correlated many-body trial wave functions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). To control the sign/phase problem in AFQMC, a constraint is derived from an exact gauge condition but…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Zixiang Lu , Yixiao Chen , Tao Xiang , Shiwei Zhang

We explore different ways of incorporating accurate trial wave functions into free projection auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (fp-AFQMC). Trial states employed include coupled cluster singles and doubles, multi-Slater, and symmetry…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma

The auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method is a general numerical method for correlated many-electron systems, which is being increasingly applied in lattice models, atoms, molecules, and solids. Here we introduce the theory and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) has emerged as a powerful framework for treating strongly correlated electronic systems, offering a favorable balance between computational cost and accuracy. In this paper, we present a novel…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Maxine Luo , Victor Chen , Yu Wang , Christian B. Mendl

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

Using trial wavefunctions prepared on quantum devices to reduce the bias of auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) has established itself as a promising hybrid approach to the simulation of strongly correlated many body systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Matthew Kiser , Matthias Beuerle , Fedor Simkovic

Quantum computers have a potential for solving quantum chemistry problems with higher accuracy than classical computers. Quantum computing quantum Monte Carlo (QC-QMC) is a QMC with a trial state prepared in quantum circuit, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shu Kanno , Hajime Nakamura , Takao Kobayashi , Shigeki Gocho , Miho Hatanaka , Naoki Yamamoto , Qi Gao

We describe an algorithm to reduce the cost of auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) calculations for the electronic structure problem. The technique uses a nested low-rank factorization of the electron repulsion integral (ERI). While…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Mario Motta , James Shee , Shiwei Zhang , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

In this paper, we propose a general framework for solving high-dimensional partial differential equations with tensor networks. Our approach uses Monte-Carlo simulations to update the solution and re-estimates the new solution from samples…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yian Chen , Yuehaw Khoo , Ziang Yu

We propose an efficient numerical method, which combines the advantages of recently developed tensor-network based methods and standard trial wave functions, to study the ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-22 Olga Sikora , Hsueh-Wen Chang , Chung-Pin Chou , Frank Pollmann , Ying-Jer Kao

Quantum Monte Carlo coupled with neural network wavefunctions has shown success in computing ground states of quantum many-body systems. Existing optimization approaches compute the energy by sampling local energy from an explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Xuan Zhang , Shenglong Xu , Shuiwang Ji

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

The Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) algorithm is a powerful quantum many-body method that can be used successfully as an alternative to standard quantum chemistry approaches to compute the ground state of many body systems, such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Edgar Josué Landinez Borda , John A. Gomez , Miguel A. Morales

The phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) method is a stochastic imaginary-time projection technique for computing ground-state properties of strongly correlated quantum systems, with accuracy that depends critically on…

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

We extend the use of coupled cluster (CC) trial states in the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method beyond single and double excitations to include both triple and quadruple excitations. With this AFQMC/CC hierarchy,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Eirik F. Kjønstad , Yann Damour , Sandeep Sharma , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

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 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 quantum Monte Carlo algorithm is arguably one of the most powerful computational many-body methods, enabling accurate calculation of many properties in interacting quantum systems. In the presence of the so-called sign problem, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-23 Chia-Chen Chang , Miguel A. Morales
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