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We show that the recently developed phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method can be used to study excited states, providing an alternative to standard quantum chemistry methods. The phaseless AFQMC approach, whose…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

Deep neural networks can represent very different sorts of functions, including complex quantum many-body states. Tensor networks can also represent these states, have more structure and are easier to optimize. However, they can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Miha Srdinšek , Xavier Waintal

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

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are some of the most accurate methods for simulating correlated electronic systems. We investigate the compatibility, strengths and weaknesses of two such methods, namely, diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Fionn D. Malone , Anouar Benali , Miguel A. Morales , Michel Caffarel , P. R. C. Kent , Luke Shulenburger

Artificial Neural Networks were recently shown to be an efficient representation of highly-entangled many-body quantum states. In practical applications, neural-network states inherit numerical schemes used in Variational Monte Carlo, most…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-22 Or Sharir , Yoav Levine , Noam Wies , Giuseppe Carleo , Amnon Shashua

In this article, we present a method for computing accurate and scalable nuclear forces within the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) framework. Our approach leverages automatic differentiation of the energy functional to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Jo S. Kurian , Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma

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

Artificial neural networks have been successfully incorporated into variational Monte Carlo method (VMC) to study quantum many-body systems. However, there have been few systematic studies of exploring quantum many-body physics using deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-26 Li Yang , Zhaoqi Leng , Guangyuan Yu , Ankit Patel , Wen-Jun Hu , Han Pu

We study one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) Helium atoms using a new time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo (TDQMC) method. The TDQMC method employs random walkers, with a separate guiding wave attached to each walker. The ground…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 I. P. Christov

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are one of the most important tools for studying interacting quantum many-body systems. The vast majority of QMC calculations in interacting fermion systems require a constraint to control the sign problem.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-08 Mingpu Qin , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We propose a new ansatz for the ground-state wave function of quantum many-body systems on a lattice. The key idea is to cover the lattice with plaquettes and obtain a state whose configurational weights can be optimized by means of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fabio Mezzacapo , Norbert Schuch , Massimo Boninsegni , J. Ignacio Cirac

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 investigate the use of variational wave-functions that mimic stochastic recurrent neural networks, specifically, unrestricted Boltzmann machines, as guiding functions in projective quantum Monte Carlo (PQMC) simulations of quantum spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-27 E. M. Inack , G. E. Santoro , L. Dell'Anna , S. Pilati

In this work, we report, for the first time, an implementation of fermionic auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) using matrix product state (MPS) trial wavefunctions, dubbed MPS-AFQMC. Calculating overlaps between an MPS trial and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Tong Jiang , Bryan O'Gorman , Ankit Mahajan , Joonho Lee

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an advanced simulation methodology for studies of manybody quantum systems. In this review, we focus on the electronic structure QMC, i.e., methods relevant for systems described by the electron-ion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-16 Michal Bajdich , Lubos Mitas

We conduct experimental simulations of many body quantum systems using a \emph{hybrid} classical-quantum algorithm. In our setup, the wave function of the transverse field quantum Ising model is represented by a restricted Boltzmann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Bartłomiej Gardas , Marek M. Rams , Jacek Dziarmaga

We present accurate many-body results of the electronic densities in several solid materials, including Si, NaCl, and Cu. These results are obtained using the ab initio auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method working in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-24 Siyuan Chen , Mario Motta , Fengjie Ma , Shiwei Zhang

Feynman diagrams are an essential tool for simulating strongly correlated electron systems. However, stochastic quantum Monte Carlo sampling suffers from the sign problem, particularly when solving a multiorbital quantum impurity model.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-28 Hirone Ishida , Natsuki Okada , Shintaro Hoshino , Hiroshi Shinaoka

We use tensor network techniques to obtain high order perturbative diagrammatic expansions for the quantum many-body problem at very high precision. The approach is based on a tensor train parsimonious representation of the sum of all…

High-order perturbative $\textit{ab initio}$ calculations are challenging due to the rapidly growing configuration space and the difficulty of assessing convergence. In this letter, we introduce perturbation theory quantum Monte Carlo…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Xin Zhen , Rongzhe Hu , Junchen Pei , Furong Xu