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Being the most classical generative model for serial data, state-space models (SSM) are fundamental in AI and statistical machine learning. In SSM, any form of parameter learning or latent state inference typically involves the computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-04 Alessandro Mastrototaro , Jimmy Olsson

We present a variational neural network approach for solving quantum field theories in the field basis, focusing on the free Klein-Gordon model formulated in momentum space. While recent studies have explored neural-network-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Kevin Braga , Nobuo Sato , Adam P. Szczepaniak

We propose a new ansatz for the ground-state wave function of quantum many-body systems on a lattice. The key idea is to cover the lattice with plaquettes and obtain a state whose configurational weights can be optimized by means of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fabio Mezzacapo , Norbert Schuch , Massimo Boninsegni , J. Ignacio Cirac

Optimizing or sampling complex cost functions of combinatorial optimization problems is a longstanding challenge across disciplines and applications. When employing family of conventional algorithms based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Dmitrii Dobrynin , Masoud Mohseni , John Paul Strachan

The self-healing diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm (SHDMC) [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79}, 195117 (2009), {\it ibid.} {\bf 80}, 125110 (2009)] is shown to be an accurate and robust method for calculating the ground state of atoms and molecules. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Michal Bajdich , Murilo L. Tiago , Randolph Q. Hood , Paul R. C. Kent , Fernando A. Reboredo

We introduce forward-backward stochastic differential equations, highlighting the connection between solutions of these and solutions of partial differential equations, related by the Feynman-Kac theorem. We review the technique of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Oliver Sheridan-Methven

Neural-network quantum states offer a flexible route to compact many-electron wave functions, but their practical accuracy depends strongly on how fermionic antisymmetry, electron correlation, and optimization noise are treated. Here we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jan Kessler , Thomas D. Kühne

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

We introduce a method to simulate open quantum many-body dynamics by combining time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) with quantum trajectory techniques. Our approach unravels the Lindblad master equation into an ensemble of…

We present a hybrid quantum-classical Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) algorithm for estimating the excited states of the nuclear shell model. The conventional GFMC method, widely used to find the ground state of a quantum many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yongdan Yang , Ruyu Yang , Xiaosi Xu

Deep learning has deeply changed the paradigms of many research fields. At the heart of chemical and physical sciences is the accurate ab initio calculation of many-body wavefunction, which has become one of the most notable examples to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yubing Qian , Xiang Li , Zhe Li , Weiluo Ren , Ji Chen

Optimizing highly complex cost/energy functions over discrete variables is at the heart of many open problems across different scientific disciplines and industries. A major obstacle is the emergence of many-body effects among certain…

Monte Carlo simulations are an essential tool in particle physics data analysis. Events are typically generated alongside weights that redistribute the cross section of the simulated process across the phase space. These weights can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Benjamin Nachman , Dennis Noll

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

Variational ab-initio methods in quantum chemistry stand out among other methods in providing direct access to the wave function. This allows in principle straightforward extraction of any other observable of interest, besides the energy,…

Variational quantum algorithms aim at harnessing the power of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers, by using a classical optimizer to train a parameterized quantum circuit to solve tractable quantum problems. The variational quantum…

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…

Operator learning is a rapidly growing field that aims to approximate nonlinear operators related to partial differential equations (PDEs) using neural operators. These rely on discretization of input and output functions and are, usually,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 James Rowbottom , Stefania Fresca , Pietro Lio , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Nicolas Boullé

We examine the application of the Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method to a cluster model for halo nuclei. Particular attention is paid to the error estimate in the presence of correlations in the underlying random walk. We analyse the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Theodoros Leontiou , Niels R. Walet

We present a finite-temperature canonical-ensemble determinant quantum Monte Carlo algorithm that enforces an exact fermion number and enables stable simulations of correlated lattice fermions. We propose a stabilized QR update that reduces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Tu Hong , Kun Chen , Xiao Yan Xu