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In correlated electron materials, the application of many-body techniques for the study of interaction effects or unconventional superconductivity often requires the formulation of an effective low-energy model that contains only the…
We consider the Jastrow pair-product wavefunction for the strongly correlated Bose systems, in our case liquid helium-4. An ansatz is proposed for the pair factors which consists of a numeric solution to a modified and parametrized pair…
Over the past decade, experimental microscopy and spectroscopy have made significant progress in the study of the morphological, optical, electronic and transport properties of materials. These developments include higher spatial…
The random phase approximation (RPA) has received a considerable interest in the field of modeling systems where noncovalent interactions are important. Its advantages over widely used density functional theory (DFT) approximations are the…
By using a full many-body approach, we calculate the excitation energy, the effective mass and the density profile of soliton states in a three dimensional Bose gas of hard spheres at zero temperature. The many-body wave function used to…
This work reviews recent advances in the analytical treatment of the continuum spectrum of correlated few-body non-relativistic Coulomb systems. The exactly solvable two-body problem serves as an introduction to the non-separable…
The Short-Time approximation is a method introduced to evaluate electroweak nuclear response for systems with $A\geq12$, extending the reach of first-principle many-body Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. Using realistic two- and three-body…
The accuracy and efficiency of ab-initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms benefits greatly from compact variational trial wave functions that accurately reproduce ground state properties of a system. We investigate the possibility of…
We study the accuracy of analytical wave function based many-body methods derived by energy minimization of a Jastrow-Feenberg ansatz for electrons (`Fermi hypernetted chain / Euler Lagrange' approach). Approximations to avoid the…
A quantum Monte Carlo method of determining Jastrow-Slater wave functions for which the energy is stationary with respect to variations in the single-particle orbitals is presented. A potential is determined by a least-squares fitting of…
We introduce a generic approach to study interaction effects in diffusive or chaotic quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. The randomness of the single-particle wave functions induces randomness in the two-body interaction matrix…
We study the reliability of the constrained random phase approximation (cRPA) method for the calculation of low-energy effective Hamiltonians by considering multi-orbital lattice models with one strongly correlated "target" band and two…
The quantum Monte Carlo algorithm is arguably one of the most powerful computational many-body methods, enabling accurate calculation of many properties in interacting quantum systems. In the presence of the so-called sign problem, the…
We consider the use in quantum Monte Carlo calculations of two types of valence bond wave functions based on strictly localized active orbitals, namely valence bond self-consistent-field (VBSCF) and breathing-orbital valence bond (BOVB)…
In this paper, we propose a method to describe the many-body problem of electrons in honeycomb materials via the introduction of random fields which are coupled to the electrons and have a Gaussian distribution. From a one-body approach to…
The linear correlation between RMS radius difference and composition asymmetry in two-component many-body systems is a robust feature observed across nuclear experiments, diverse theoretical models, and metallic nano-alloy cluster…
A simple Monte Carlo procedure is described for simulating the multiple scattering and absorption of electrons with the incident energy in the range 1-50 keV moving through a slab of uniformly distributed material of given atomic number,…
We introduce a family of many-body systems of distinguishable continuous-variable particles in which interparticle interactions are set by the adjacency matrix of a graph. The ground-state wavefunction of such systems is of a generalized…
We study one-dimensional quantum gases in continuous space with cavity-mediated infinite-range interactions using variational and diffusion Monte Carlo methods. Starting from the exact two-body solution, we construct a non-translationally…
Analytical expressions of the one- and two- body terms in the cluster expansion of the one-body density matrix and momentum distribution of the s-p and s-d shell nuclei with N=Z are derived. They depend on the harmonic oscillator parameter…