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Neutron matter is interesting both as an extension of terrestrial nuclear physics and due to its significance for the study of neutron stars. In this work, after some introductory comments on nuclear forces, nuclear ab initio theory, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-13 Mateusz Buraczynski , Nawar Ismail , Alexandros Gezerlis

We have reformulated the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) technique so that a large part of the calculation scales linearly with the number of atoms. The reformulation is related to a recent alternative proposal for achieving linear-scaling QMC,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Alfe` , M. J. Gillan

Experiments using intermediate- to high-energy radioactive nuclear beams present numerous findings. Extracting important properties of physical observables relies on a firm theoretical analysis. Though Glauber theory is believed to work…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 W. Horiuchi , Y. Suzuki , R. B. Wiringa

We present the first Green's function Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with nuclear interactions derived from chiral effective field theory up to next-to-next-to-leading order. Up to this order, the interactions can be constructed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-11 J. E. Lynn , J. Carlson , E. Epelbaum , S. Gandolfi , A. Gezerlis , A. Schwenk

Ab-initio Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations of nuclei from deuterium to 40Ca, obtained using four different phenomenological and local chiral nuclear potentials, are analyzed using the Generalized Contact Formalism (GCF). We extract…

Neutron matter, through its connection to neutron stars as well as systems like cold atom gases, is one of the most interesting yet computationally accessible systems in nuclear physics. The Configuration-Interaction Monte Carlo (CIMC)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Pierre Arthuis , Carlo Barbieri , Francesco Pederiva , Alessandro Roggero

The electromagnetic responses obtained from Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) calculations are based on realistic treatments of nuclear interactions and currents. The main limitations of this method comes from its nonrelativistic nature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Noemi Rocco , Winfried Leidemann , Alessandro Lovato , Giuseppina Orlandini

In this note, variational Monte Carlo method based on neural quantum states for spin systems is reviewed. Using a neural network as the wave function allows for a more generalized expression of various types of interactions, including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Yuntai Song

We review the calculation of the equation of state of pure neutron matter using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. QMC algorithms permit the study of many-body nuclear systems using realistic two- and three-body forces in a nonperturbative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-06 S. Gandolfi , J. Carlson , S. Reddy , A. W. Steiner , R. B. Wiringa

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have proven to be valuable in the study of strongly correlated quantum systems, particularly nuclear physics and cold atomic gases. Historically, such ab initio simulations have been used to study properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-26 J. Carlson , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

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

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

The quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is one of the most promising many-body electronic structure approaches. It employs stochastic techniques for solving the stationary Schr\" odinger equation and for evaluation of expectation values. The key…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-20 Michal Bajdich

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques are used to calculate the one-body density matrix and excitation energies for the valence electrons of bulk silicon. The one-body density matrix and energies are obtained from a Slater-Jastrow wave…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. R. C. Kent , Randolph Q. Hood , M. D. Towler , R. J. Needs , G. Rajagopal

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 extend the recently developed Quantum Quasi-Monte Carlo (QQMC) approach to obtain the full frequency dependence of Green functions in a single calculation. QQMC is a general approach for calculating high-order perturbative expansions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-07 Corentin Bertrand , Daniel Bauernfeind , Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Marjan Maček , Xavier Waintal , Olivier Parcollet

We present the first quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations with chiral effective field theory (EFT) interactions. To achieve this, we remove all sources of nonlocality, which hamper the inclusion in QMC calculations, in nuclear forces to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-24 A. Gezerlis , I. Tews , E. Epelbaum , S. Gandolfi , K. Hebeler , A. Nogga , A. Schwenk

The Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo method has been applied to simulate droplets of 7 and 8 neutrons. Results for realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions, which include tensor, spin--orbit and three--body forces, plus a standard…

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

We propose a novel approach to intranuclear cascades which takes as input quantum MonteCarlo nuclear configurations and uses a semi-classical, impact-parameter based algorithm to modelthe propagation of protons and neutrons in the nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Joshua Isaacson , William I. Jay , Alessandro Lovato , Pedro A. N. Machado , Noemi Rocco

Electronic structure of the manganese oxide solid is studied by the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. The trial wavefunctions are built using orbitals from unrestricted Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Theory, and the electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ji-Woo Lee , Lubos Mitas , Lucas K. Wagner