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We present a variational Monte Carlo method that solves the nuclear many-body problem in the occupation number formalism exploiting an artificial neural network representation of the ground-state wave function. A memory-efficient version of…

We propose a neural-network variational quantum algorithm to simulate the time evolution of quantum many-body systems. Based on a modified restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) wavefunction ansatz, the proposed algorithm can be efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Chee-Kong Lee , Pranay Patil , Shengyu Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh

Variational quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an ab-initio method for solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation that is exact in principle, but limited by the flexibility of the available ansatzes in practice. The recently introduced deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Zeno Schätzle , Jan Hermann , Frank Noé

Recently, artificial intelligence for science has made significant inroads into various fields of natural science research. In the field of quantum many-body computation, researchers have developed numerous ground state solvers based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 Jia-Qi Wang , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

Understanding superfluidity remains a major goal of condensed matter physics. Here we tackle this challenge utilizing the recently developed Fermionic neural network (FermiNet) wave function Ansatz [D. Pfau et al., Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 033429…

Accurately describing the ground state of strongly correlated systems is essential for understanding their emergent properties. Neural Network Backflow (NNBF) is a powerful variational ansatz that enhances mean-field wave functions by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-03 Kieran Loehr , Bryan K. Clark

We propose neural control variates (NCV) for unbiased variance reduction in parametric Monte Carlo integration. So far, the core challenge of applying the method of control variates has been finding a good approximation of the integrand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Thomas Müller , Fabrice Rousselle , Jan Novák , Alexander Keller

We provide a pedagogical introduction to the two main variants of real-space quantum Monte Carlo methods for electronic-structure calculations: variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC). Assuming no prior knowledge on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Julien Toulouse , Roland Assaraf , C. J. Umrigar

Variational wave functions used in the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method are extensively improved to overcome the biases coming from the assumed variational form of the wave functions. We construct a highly generalized variational form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-27 Daisuke Tahara , Masatoshi Imada

Quantum Monte Carlo coupled with neural network wavefunctions has shown success in computing ground states of quantum many-body systems. Existing optimization approaches compute the energy by sampling local energy from an explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Xuan Zhang , Shenglong Xu , Shuiwang Ji

Given access to accurate solutions of the many-electron Schr\"odinger equation, nearly all chemistry could be derived from first principles. Exact wavefunctions of interesting chemical systems are out of reach because they are NP-hard to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 David Pfau , James S. Spencer , Alexander G. de G. Matthews , W. M. C. Foulkes

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

Solving the Schr\"odinger equation is key to many quantum mechanical properties. However, an analytical solution is only tractable for single-electron systems. Recently, neural networks succeeded at modeling wave functions of many-electron…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Nicholas Gao , Stephan Günnemann

Monte Carlo methods are widely used in particle physics to integrate and sample probability distributions (differential cross sections or decay rates) on multi-dimensional phase spaces. We present a Neural Network (NN) algorithm optimized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Matthew D. Klimek , Maxim Perelstein

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 present a variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method that works equally well for the ground and the excited states of a quantum system. The method is based on the minimization of the variance of energy, as opposed to the energy itself in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Imran Khan , Bo Gao

We propose a variance reduction framework for variational inference using the Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method. Our framework is built on reparameterized gradient estimators and "recycles" parameters obtained from past update history in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Masahiro Fujisawa , Issei Sato

Efficient ways to prepare fermionic ground states on quantum computers are in high demand and different techniques have been developed over the last years. Despite having a vast set of methods, it is still unclear which method performs well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Jakob S. Kottmann , Francesco Scala

We propose a hybrid variational framework that enhances Neural Quantum States (NQS) with a Normalising Flow-based sampler to improve the expressivity and trainability of quantum many-body wavefunctions. Our approach decouples the sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko