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A new Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) approach is proposed to investigate low-lying states of nuclei within the shell model. The formalism relies on a variational symmetry-restored wave-function to guide the underlying Brownian motion. Sign/phase…
We propose a Multi-Cell Monte Carlo algorithm, or (MC)^2, for predicting stable phases in chemically complex crystalline systems. Free atomic transfer among cells is achieved via the application of the lever rule, where an assigned molar…
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…
It has become increasingly feasible to use quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods to study correlated fermion systems for realistic Hamiltonians. We give a summary of these techniques targeted at researchers in the field of correlated electrons,…
A diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm is introduced that can determine the correct nodal structure of the wave function of a few-fermion system and its ground-state energy without an uncontrolled bias. This is achieved by confining signed…
Direct sampling of multi-dimensional systems with quantum Monte Carlo methods allows exact account of many-body effects or particle correlations. The most straightforward approach to solve the Schr\"odinger equation, Diffusion Monte Carlo,…
We review quantum Monte Carlo methods for dealing with large shell model problems. These methods reduce the imaginary-time many-body evolution operator to a coherent superposition of one-body evolutions in fluctuating one-body fields; the…
Here we study the dynamics of many-body quantum systems using time dependent quantum Monte Carlo method where the evolution is described by ensembles of particles and guide waves. The exponential-time scaling inherent to the quantum…
Monte Carlo is one of the most useful methods to study the quantum Hall problems. In this paper, we introduce a fast lattice Monte Carlo method based on a mathematically exact reformulation of the torus quantum Hall problems from continuum…
Treating the fermionic ground state problem as a constrained stochastic optimization problem, a formalism for fermionic quantum Monte Carlo is developed that makes no reference to a trial wavefunction. Exchange symmetry is enforced by…
The Diffusion Monte Carlo method is devoted to the computation of electronic ground-state energies of molecules. In this paper, we focus on implementations of this method which consist in exploring the configuration space with a {\bf fixed}…
In this Ph.D. thesis quantum Monte Carlo methods are applied to investigate the properties of a number of ultracold quantum systems. In Chapter 1 we discuss the analytical approaches and approximations used in the subsequent Chapters; also…
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…
The recently proposed full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method allows access to essentially exact ground-state energies of systems of interacting fermions substantially larger than previously tractable without knowledge of…
The Sign Learning Kink (SiLK) based Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method is used to calculate the ab initio ground state energies for multiple geometries of the H$_{2}$O, N$_2$, and F$_2$ molecules. The method is based on Feynman's path…
Silica is an abundant component of the Earth whose crystalline polymorphs play key roles in its structure and dynamics. As the simplest silicates, understanding pure silica is a prerequisite to understanding the rocky part of the Earth, its…
A Path Integral Monte Carlo method is used to investigate the thermodynamics of nuclear like systems. Systems composed of bosons or fermions interracting via a Lennard-Jones potential with periodic boundary conditions were simulated and the…
We address the computation of ground-state properties of chemical systems and realistic materials within the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method. The phase constraint to control the fermion phase problem requires the random walks in…
All-electron variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the ground state energies of the first row atoms (Li to Ne) are reported. We use trial wavefunctions of four types: single determinant Slater-Jastrow wavefunctions;…
We report on a Monte Carlo method that generates one-dimensional trajectories for Bohm's formulation of quantum mechanics that doesn't involve differentiation or integration of any equations of motion. At each time, t=n\delta t…