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The auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method provides a computational framework for solving the time-independent Schroedinger equation in atoms, molecules, solids, and a variety of model systems. AFQMC has recently witnessed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Mario Motta , 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

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…

In this work, we develop a size extensive Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) approach that scales as $O(N^5)$ for local energy evaluation by treating the Coupled Cluster Singles and Doubles (CCSD) trial wavefunctions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Yichi Zhang , Ankit Mahajan , Yann Damour , Sandeep Sharma

We propose doubly occupied configuration interaction-quantum selected configuration interaction (DOCI-QSCI), which samples from the seniority-zero space. While the use of this space effectively doubles the qubit budget, equaling the number…

We propose quantum-selected configuration interaction (QSCI), a class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for calculating the ground- and excited-state energies of many-electron Hamiltonians on noisy quantum devices. Suppose that an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Keita Kanno , Masaya Kohda , Ryosuke Imai , Sho Koh , Kosuke Mitarai , Wataru Mizukami , Yuya O. Nakagawa

Quantum-selected configuration interaction (QSCI) is an approach for quantum chemical calculations using current quantum computers. In conventional QSCI, Slater determinants used for the wave function expansion are sampled by iteratively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Kenji Sugisaki , Shu Kanno , Toshinari Itoko , Rei Sakuma , Naoki Yamamoto

We present an implementation of phaseless Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) utilizing graphical processing units (GPUs). The AFQMC method is recast in terms of matrix operations which are spread across thousands of processing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 James Shee , Evan J. Arthur , Shiwei Zhang , David R. Reichman , Richard A. Friesner

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is incorporated into the phaseless plane-wave-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (pw-AFQMC) method. This integration is implemented using optimized multiple-projector norm-conserving pseudopotentials, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-13 Zheng Liu , Shiwei Zhang , Fengjie Ma

Finding the ground state of a fermionic Hamiltonian using quantum Monte Carlo is a very difficult problem, due to the Fermi sign problem. While still scaling exponentially, full configuration-interaction Monte Carlo (FCI-QMC) mitigates some…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Bryan K. Clark

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

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms have long relied on Jastrow factors to incorporate dynamic correlation into trial wave functions. While Jastrow-type wave functions have been widely employed in real-space algorithms, they have seen…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Chia-Chen Chang , Brenda M. Rubenstein , Miguel A. Morales

We present phaseless auxiliary-field (AF) quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations of the ground states of some hydrogen-bonded systems. These systems were selected to test and benchmark different aspects of the new phaseless AF QMC method.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Al-Saidi , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

We present the quantum-selected configuration interaction-tailored coupled-cluster (QSCI-TCC) method, a hybrid quantum-classical scheme that tailors coupled-cluster (CC) theory with a quantum-selected configuration interaction (QSCI) wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Luca Erhart , Yuichiro Yoshida , Wataru Mizukami

In this study, we evaluate multi-configurational trial wave function protocols for phaseless auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) on transition metal containing systems. First, we benchmark vertical ionization potentials for 22 3d…

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

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

The auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method provides a computational framework for solving the time-independent Schroedinger equation in atoms, molecules, solids, and a variety of model systems by stochastic sampling. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-19 Shiwei Zhang

We expand upon the recent semi-stochastic adaptation to full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC). We present an alternate method for generating the deterministic space without a priori knowledge of the wave function and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 N. S. Blunt , Simon D. Smart , J. A. F. Kersten , J. S. Spencer , George H. Booth , Ali Alavi

We introduce QC-CBT-AFQMC, a hybrid algorithm that incorporates computational basis tomography (CBT) into the quantum-classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) method proposed by Huggins et al. [Nature 603, 416-420 (2022)],…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Viktor Khinevich , Wataru Mizukami