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Deep neural networks can represent very different sorts of functions, including complex quantum many-body states. Tensor networks can also represent these states, have more structure and are easier to optimize. However, they can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Miha Srdinšek , Xavier Waintal

We introduce an efficient approach to implement neural network quantum states (NNQS) as trial wavefunctions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). NNQS are a recently developed class of variational ans\"atze capable of flexibly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Bowen Kan , Huan Ma , Bowen Zhao , Honghui Shang

We introduce an extension of the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) method that adaptively controls the expressivity of the variational quantum state during the simulation of the dynamics. This adaptive tVMC (atVMC) approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Raffaele Salioni , Rocco Martinazzo , Davide Emilio Galli , Christian Apostoli

In this work, we introduce three algorithmic improvements to reduce the cost and improve the scaling of orbital space variational Monte Carlo (VMC). First, we show that by appropriately screening the one- and two-electron integrals of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Iliya Sabzevari , Sandeep Sharma

We provide theoretical convergence bounds for the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method as applied to optimize neural network wave functions for the electronic structure problem. We study both the energy minimization phase and the supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Nilin Abrahamsen , Zhiyan Ding , Gil Goldshlager , Lin Lin

Finding high-quality trial wave functions for quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei requires a strong intuition for modeling the interparticle correlations as well as large computational resources for exploring the space of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Pengsheng Wen , Alexandros Gezerlis , Jeremy W. Holt

The advent of Neural-network Quantum States (NQS) has significantly advanced wave function ansatz research, sparking a resurgence in orbital space variational Monte Carlo (VMC) exploration. This work introduces three algorithmic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Zhu-Ping Shen , Chen Zhao , Jun Li , Han-Shi Hu

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) based on fixed-node approximation has enjoyed significant developments in the past decades and become one of the go-to methods when accurate ground state energy of molecules and materials is needed. The remaining…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Weiluo Ren , Weizhong Fu , Xiaojie Wu , Ji Chen

We introduce a variational Monte Carlo algorithm for approximating finite-temperature quantum many-body systems, based on the minimization of a modified free energy. This approach directly approximates the state at a fixed temperature,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Sirui Lu , Giacomo Giudice , J. Ignacio Cirac

Quantum chemical calculations of the ground-state properties of positron-molecule complexes are challenging. The main difficulty lies in employing an appropriate basis set for representing the coalescence between electrons and a positron.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 G. Cassella , W. M. C. Foulkes , D. Pfau , J. S. Spencer

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods represent a powerful family of computational techniques for tackling complex quantum many-body problems and performing calculations of stationary state properties. QMC is among the most accurate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Alfonso Annarelli , Dario Alfè , Andrea Zen

We introduce a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that dramatically accelerates the simulation of quantum many-body systems, a grand challenge in computational science. State-of-the-art methods for these problems are severely limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Deqian Kong , Shi Feng , Jianwen Xie , Ying Nian Wu

We present a simple, robust and highly efficient method for optimizing all parameters of many-body wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, applicable to continuum systems and lattice models. Based on a strong zero-variance…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Umrigar , Julien Toulouse , Claudia Filippi , S. Sorella , R. G. Hennig

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) employ artificial neural networks to encode many-body wave functions in second quantization through variational Monte Carlo (VMC). They have recently been applied to accurately describe electronic wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Chang-su Cao , Dingshun Lv , Han-Shi Hu

Programmable quantum simulators based on Rydberg atom arrays are a fast-emerging quantum platform, bringing together long coherence times, high-fidelity operations, and large numbers of interacting qubits deterministically arranged in…

Deep neural networks have been shown as a potentially powerful ansatz in variational Monte Carlo for solving quantum many-body problems. We propose two improvements in this direction. The first is graph neural ansatz (GNA), which is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-26 Li Yang , Wenjun Hu , Li Li

We propose a general framework for finding the ground state of many-body fermionic systems by using feed-forward neural networks. The anticommutation relation for fermions is usually implemented to a variational wave function by the Slater…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-21 Koji Inui , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have proven to predict atomic and bulk properties of light and non-light elements with high accuracy. Here we report on the first variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) calculations for solid surfaces. Taking the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Bahnsen , H. Eckstein , W. Schattke , N. Fitzer , R. Redmer

Neural networks are emerging as a powerful tool for determining the quantum states of interacting many-body fermionic systems. The standard approach trains a neural-network ansatz by minimizing the mean local energy estimated from Monte…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-02 Dezhe Z. Jin

mVMC (many-variable Variational Monte Carlo) is an open-source software based on the variational Monte Carlo method applicable for a wide range of Hamiltonians for interacting fermion systems. In mVMC, we introduce more than ten thousands…