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The accuracy of phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) can be systematically improved with better trial states. Using multi-Slater determinant trial states, ph-AFQMC has the potential to faithfully treat strongly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Yifei Huang , Zhen Guo , Hung Q. Pham , Dingshun Lv

Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

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

Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) has emerged as a powerful framework for treating strongly correlated electronic systems, offering a favorable balance between computational cost and accuracy. In this paper, we present a novel…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Maxine Luo , Victor Chen , Yu Wang , Christian B. Mendl

Many-electron problems pose some of the greatest challenges in computational science, with important applications across many fields of modern science. Fermionic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are among the most powerful approaches to…

We employ constrained path Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) in the pursuit of studying physical nuclear systems using a lattice formalism. Since AFQMC has been widely used in the study of condensed-matter systems such as the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-16 Ryan Curry , Jayani Dissanayake , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

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

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

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

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

The tunneling decay event of a metastable state in a fully connected quantum spin model can be simulated efficiently by path integral quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) [Isakov $et~al.$, Phys. Rev. Lett. ${\bf 117}$, 180402 (2016).]. This is because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Zhang Jiang , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Sergio Boixo , Hartmut Neven

The Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) algorithm is a powerful quantum many-body method that can be used successfully as an alternative to standard quantum chemistry approaches to compute the ground state of many body systems, such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Edgar Josué Landinez Borda , John A. Gomez , Miguel A. Morales

We present a computational platform for modeling chemical reactions in complex molecular environments, focused on ligand-protein binding in drug discovery. The platform implements our new quantum-in-quantum-in-classical (QM/QM/MM)…

The recently developed auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method is applied to compute the equation of state and the compressibility of neutron matter. By combining diffusion Monte Carlo for the spatial degrees of freedom and auxiliary…

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

We report the development of a python-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) program, ipie, with preliminary timing benchmarks and new AFQMC results on the isomerization of [Cu$_2$O$_2$$]^{2+}$. We demonstrate how implementations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Fionn D. Malone , Ankit Mahajan , James S. Spencer , Joonho Lee

We propose a new sampling method to calculate the ground state of interacting quantum systems. This method, which we call the adaptive sampling quantum monte carlo (ASQMC) method utilises information from the high temperature density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoshihiro ASAI

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 report a scalable Fortran implementation of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) and demonstrate its excellent performance and beneficial scaling with respect to system size. Furthermore, we investigate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Z. Sukurma , M. Schlipf , M. Humer , A. Taheridehkordi , G. Kresse

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 propose a novel algorithm for calculating the ground-state energy of quantum many-body systems by combining auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) with tensor-train sketching. In AFQMC, a good trial wavefunction to guide the random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ziang Yu , Shiwei Zhang , Yuehaw Khoo