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We present the first open access version of the QMeCha (Quantum MeCha) code, a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) package developed to study many-body interactions between different types of quantum particles, with a modular and easy-to-expand…

Development of exponentially scaling methods has seen great progress in tackling larger systems than previously thought possible. One such technique, full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo, is a useful algorithm that allows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-23 Norm M. Tubman , Joonho Lee , Tyler Y. Takeshita , Martin Head-Gordon , K. Birgitta Whaley

The computational demand posed by applying multi-Slater determinant trials in phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo methods (MSD-AFQMC) is particularly significant for molecules exhibiting strong correlations. Here, we propose using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Hung Q. Pham , Runsheng Ouyang , Dingshun Lv

A local embedding and effective downfolding scheme has been developed and implemented in the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method. A local cluster in which electrons are fully correlated is defined and the frozen orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 Brandon Eskridge , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

A recent direction in quantum computing for molecular electronic structure sees the use of quantum devices as configuration sampling machines integrated within high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. This appeals to the strengths of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Tim Weaving , Angus Mingare , Alexis Ralli , Peter V. Coveney

The exact and phaseless variants of Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) have been shown to be capable of producing accurate ground-state energies for a wide variety of systems including those which exhibit substantial electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 James Shee , Shiwei Zhang , David R. Reichman , Richard A. Friesner

Quasiparticle band structures are fundamental for understanding strongly correlated electron systems. While solving these structures accurately on classical computers is challenging, quantum computing offers a promising alternative.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Takahiro Ohgoe , Hokuto Iwakiri , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Sho Koh , Masaya Kohda

The use of an approximate reference state wave function |Phi_r> in electronic many-body methods can break the spin symmetry of Born-Oppenheimer spin-independent Hamiltonians. This can result in significant errors, especially when bonds are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 Wirawan Purwanto , W. A. Al-Saidi , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

Ab initio auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) is a systematically improvable many-body method, but its application to extended solids has been severely limited by unfavorable computational scaling and memory requirements that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Jinghong Zhang , Meng-Fu Chen , Adam Rettig , Tong Jiang , Paul J. Robinson , Hieu Q. Dinh , Anton Z. Ni , Joonho Lee

Finite temperature auxiliary field-based Quantum Monte Carlo methods, including Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) and Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), have historically assumed pivotal roles in the investigation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tong Shen , Yuan Liu , Yang Yu , Brenda Rubenstein

We present a stable and systematically improvable quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to calculating excited-state energies, which we implement using our fast randomized iteration method for the full configuration interaction problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Samuel M. Greene , Robert J. Webber , James E. T. Smith , Jonathan Weare , Timothy C. Berkelbach

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

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

The projective quantum Monte Carlo (PQMC) algorithms are among the most powerful computational techniques to simulate the ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. However, they are efficient only if a sufficiently accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-04 S. Pilati , E. M. Inack , P. Pieri

We formulate and characterize a new constraint for Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) applicable for general fermionic systems, which allows for the accumulation of phase in the random walk but disallows walkers with a magnitude of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 John L. Weber , Hung Vuong , Richard A. Friesner , David R. Reichman

We investigate the viability of the phaseless finite temperature auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-FT-AFQMC) method for ab initio systems using the uniform electron gas as a model. Through comparisons with exact results and finite…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-15 Joonho Lee , Miguel A. Morales , Fionn D. Malone

In this paper, we propose a general analysis framework for inexact power iteration, which can be used to efficiently solve high dimensional eigenvalue problems arising from quantum many-body problems. Under the proposed framework, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Jianfeng Lu , Zhe Wang

A series of calculations for the first- and second-row post-d elements (Ga-Br and In-I) are presented using the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AF QMC) method. This method is formulated in a Hilbert space defined by any…

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

We present an extension of constrained-path auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (CP-AFQMC) for the treatment of correlated electronic systems coupled to phonons. The algorithm follows the standard CP-AFQMC approach for description of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Joonho Lee , Shiwei Zhang , David R. Reichman

Estimating the ground-state energy of a quantum system is one of the most promising applications for quantum algorithms. Here we propose a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) \emph{Ansatz} for finding ground state configuration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Koray Aydoğan , Anna R. Spak , Kade Head-Marsden , Anthony W. Schlimgen