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We present near-term quantum algorithms for auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), viewed as imaginary-time projection for ground-state calculation as an ensemble of one-body propagators driven by stochastic fields $\Omega$. Starting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiantao Li

In simple ferromagnetic quantum Ising models characterized by an effective double-well energy landscape the characteristic tunneling time of path-integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations has been shown to scale as the incoherent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-13 E. M. Inack , G. Giudici , T. Parolini , G. Santoro , S. Pilati

This paper presents a novel framework for enhancing the quantum resistance of NTRUEncrypt using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. We establish formal bounds on sampling efficiency and provide security reductions to lattice problems,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Gautier-Edouard Filardo , Thibaut Heckmann

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

Many problems in the physical sciences, machine learning, and statistical inference necessitate sampling from a high-dimensional, multi-modal probability distribution. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, the ubiquitous tool for this…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-05-12 Marylou Gabrié , Grant M. Rotskoff , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are widely used in financial risk management, from estimating value-at-risk (VaR) to pricing over-the-counter derivatives. However, they come at a significant computational cost due to the number of scenarios…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Titos Matsakos , Stuart Nield

Bayesian modelling and computational inference by Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a principled framework for large-scale uncertainty quantification, though is limited in practice by computational cost when implemented in the simplest…

Computation · Statistics 2020-09-21 Colin Fox , Tiangang Cui , Markus Neumayer

Sampling from posterior distributions using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods can require an exhaustive number of iterations, particularly when the posterior is multi-modal as the MCMC sampler can become trapped in a local mode for a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-30 Christopher Nemeth , Fredrik Lindsten , Maurizio Filippone , James Hensman

Neural Network-based Quantum Monte Carlo (NNQMC), an emerging method for solving many-body quantum systems with high accuracy, has been limitedly applied to small systems due to demanding computation requirements. In this work, we introduce…

We propose Quantum Enhanced Simulated Annealing (QESA), a novel hybrid optimization framework that integrates quantum annealing (QA) into simulated annealing (SA) to tackle continuous optimization problems. While QA has shown promise in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Hristo N. Djidjev

The recent advent of commercially available quantum annealing hardware (QAH) has expanded opportunities for research into quantum annealing-based algorithms. In the domain of power systems, this advancement has driven increased interest in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Rosemary Barrass , Harsha Nagarajan , Carleton Coffrin

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

We present a framework of an auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for multi-orbital Hubbard models. Our formulation can be applied to a Hamiltonian which includes terms for on-site Coulomb interaction for both intra- and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Yukitoshi Motome , Masatoshi Imada

The Markov chain Monte Carlo method (MCMC), especially the Metropolis-Hastings (MH) algorithm, is a widely used technique for sampling from a target probability distribution $P$ on a state space $\Omega$ and applied to various problems such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Koichi Miyamoto

Quantum computation provides exponential speedup for solving certain mathematical problems against classical computers. Motivated by current rapid experimental progress on quantum computing devices, various models of quantum computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Keisuke Fujii

Quantum annealing (QA) provides us with a way to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In the previous demonstration of the QA, a superconducting flux qubit (FQ) was used. However, the flux qubits in these demonstrations have a short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Hideaki Hakoshima , Yuya Seki , Shiro Kawabata

We propose to perform amplitude estimation with the help of constant-depth quantum circuits that variationally approximate states during amplitude amplification. In the context of Monte Carlo (MC) integration, we numerically show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Kirill Plekhanov , Matthias Rosenkranz , Mattia Fiorentini , Michael Lubasch

We present a generalization of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method to cavity quantum-electrodynamical (QED) matter systems. The method can be formulated in both the Coulomb and the dipole gauge. We verify its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Lukas Weber , Leonardo dos Anjos Cunha , Miguel A. Morales , Angel Rubio , Shiwei Zhang

We present \emph{multi-qubit correction} (MQC) as a novel postprocessing method for quantum annealers that views the evolution in an open-system as a Gibbs sampler and reduces a set of excited states to a new synthetic state with lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Ramin Ayanzadeh , John Dorband , Milton Halem , Tim Finin

We present a general framework for accelerating a large class of widely used Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. Our approach exploits fast, iterative approximations to the target density to speculatively evaluate many potential…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-31 Elaine Angelino , Eddie Kohler , Amos Waterland , Margo Seltzer , Ryan P. Adams