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The parameter derivative of the expectation value of the energy, $\partial E/\partial p$, is a key ingredient in variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) wave function optimization methods. In some cases, a na\"ive Monte Carlo estimate of this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Shivesh Pathak , Lucas K. Wagner

Gradient-based Monte Carlo sampling algorithms, like Langevin dynamics and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, are important methods for Bayesian inference. In large-scale settings, full-gradients are not affordable and thus stochastic gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Zhize Li , Tianyi Zhang , Shuyu Cheng , Jun Zhu , Jian Li

We overview a series of recent works devoted to variance reduction techniques for numerical stochastic homogenization. Numerical homogenization requires solving a set of problems at the micro scale, the so-called corrector problems. In a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Xavier Blanc , Claude Le Bris , Frederic Legoll

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

The Lanczos algorithm has proven itself to be a valuable matrix eigensolver for problems with large dimensions, up to hundreds of millions or even tens of billions. The computational cost of using any Lanczos algorithm is dominated by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Ryan M. Zbikowski , Calvin W. Johnson

When combined with highly expressive ansatz functions such as neural quantum states, variational Monte Carlo (VMC) constitutes a versatile numerical approach to tackle the quantum many-body problem in and out of equilibrium. However, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Wladislaw Krinitsin , Markus Schmitt

Recent work found that an analysis formalism based on the Lanczos algorithm allows energy levels to be extracted from Euclidean correlation functions with faster ground-state convergence than effective masses, convergent estimators for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-12 Daniel C. Hackett , Michael L. Wagman

The Liouville-Lanczos approach to linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory is generalized so as to encompass electron energy-loss and inelastic X-ray scattering spectroscopies in periodic solids. The computation of virtual…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Iurii Timrov , Nathalie Vast , Ralph Gebauer , Stefano Baroni

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…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Fahy , Claudia Filippi

Compact and accurate wave functions can be constructed by quantum Monte Carlo methods. Typically, these wave functions consist of a sum of a small number of Slater determinants multiplied by a Jastrow factor. In this paper we study the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Chien-Jung Huang , C. J. Umrigar , M. P. Nightingale

A deflated restarted Lanczos algorithm is given for both solving symmetric linear equations and computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The restarting limits the storage so that finding eigenvectors is practical. Meanwhile, the deflating…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Abdou M. Abdel-Rehim , Ronald B. Morgan , Dywayne A. Nicely , Walter Wilcox

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the first-row atoms Li-Ne and their singly-positively-charged ions are reported. Multi-determinant-Jastrow-backflow trial wave functions are used which recover more than 98% of the correlation energy at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 P. Seth , P. López Ríos , R. J. Needs

In the regime where traditional approaches to electronic structure cannot afford to achieve accurate energy differences via exhaustive wave function flexibility, rigorous approaches to balancing different states' accuracies become…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Paul J. Robinson , Sergio D. Pineda Flores , Eric Neuscamman

A quantum Monte Carlo study of the atomization energies for the G2 set of molecules is presented. Basis size dependence of diffusion Monte Carlo atomization energies is studied with a single determinant Slater-Jastrow trial wavefunction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. R. Petruzielo , Julien Toulouse , C. J. Umrigar

An efficient method for computing thermodynamic equilibrium states at the micromagnetic length scale is introduced, using the Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Trial moves include not only rotations of vectors, but also a change in their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Serban Lepadatu

We suggest a method to compute approximations to temporal correlation functions of few-body observables in chaotic many-body systems in the thermodynamic limit based on the respective Lanczos coefficients. Given the knowledge of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-18 Merlin Füllgraf , Jiaozi Wang , Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer

We study several aspects of the recently introduced fixed-phase spin-orbit diffusion Monte Carlo (FPSODMC) method, in particular, its relation to the fixed-node method and its potential use as a general approach for electronic structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Cody A. Melton , Lubos Mitas

The Lanczos method is one of the most powerful and fundamental techniques for solving an extremal symmetric eigenvalue problem. Convergence-based error estimates depend heavily on the eigenvalue gap. In practice, this gap is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-17 John C. Urschel

We discuss electronic properties and their evolution for the linear chain of $H_2$ molecules in the presence of a uniform external force $f$ acting along the chain. The system is described by an extended Hubbard model within a fully…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-15 Andrzej Biborski , Andrzej P. Kądzielawa , Józef Spałek

We have employed the steepest descent method to optimise the variational ground state quantum Monte Carlo wave function for He, Li, Be, B and C atoms. We have used both the direct energy minimisation and the variance minimisation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Ebrahim Foulaadvand , Mohammad Zarenia