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The event-chain Monte Carlo (ECMC) method is an irreversible Markov process based on the factorized Metropolis filter and the concept of lifted Markov chains. Here, ECMC is applied to all-atom models of multi-particle interactions that…

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We present a new implementation of the Cluster Variational Method (CVM) as a message passing algorithm. The kind of message passing algorithms used for CVM, usually named Generalized Belief Propagation, are a generalization of the Belief…

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Quantum error mitigation (QEM) is a class of promising techniques for reducing the computational error of variational quantum algorithms. In general, the computational error reduction comes at the cost of a sampling overhead due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Yifeng Xiong , Soon Xin Ng , Lajos Hanzo

We use the cluster variation method (CVM) to investigate the phase structure of the 3d gonihedric Ising actions defined by Savvidy and Wegner. The geometrical spin cluster boundaries in these systems serve as models for the string…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 E. N. M. Cirillo , G. Gonnella , D. A. Johnston , A. Pelizzola

In this paper we present a new approach to control variates for improving computational efficiency of Ensemble Monte Carlo. We present the approach using simulation of paths of a time-dependent nonlinear stochastic equation. The core idea…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2008-09-25 T. Borogovac , F. J. Alexander , P. Vakili

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a powerful computational technique for finding the maximum likelihood estimates for parametric models when the data are not fully observed. The EM is best suited for situations where the…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-14 Chanseok Park

We propose a Multilevel Monte-Carlo (MLMC) method for computing entropy measure valued solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws. Sharp bounds for the narrow convergence of MLMC for the entropy measure valued solutions are proposed. An…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Kjetil Olsen Lye

We present numerical results on electron tunneling in a single-electron box at low temperature. The effective action of this device is equivalent to the Hamiltonian of a classical XY spin chain with long ranged interactions. Using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philipp Werner , Matthias Troyer

Coupled-cluster theories can be used to compute ab initio electronic correlation energies of real materials with systematically improvable accuracy. However, the widely-used coupled cluster singles and doubles plus perturbative triples…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-01 Nikolaos Masios , Andreas Irmler , Tobias Schäfer , Andreas Grüneis

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

Classical algorithms in numerical analysis for numerical integration (quadrature/cubature) follow the principle of approximate and integrate: the integrand is approximated by a simple function (e.g. a polynomial), which is then integrated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Yuji Nakatsukasa

Recent disagreement between state-of-the-art quantum chemical methods, coupled cluster with single, double and perturbative triples excitations and fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo, calls for systematic examination of possible sources of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 S. Lambie , C. Rickert , D. Usvyat , A. Alavi , D. Kats

Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful tool to investigate the thermodynamic properties of atomic systems. In practice however, sampling of the complete configuration space is often hindered by high energy barriers between different regions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-04 Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) can be used to train accurate machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs), enabling molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of complex materials on time scales and for system sizes previously unattainable. VMC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-11 Giacomo Tenti , Kousuke Nakano , Michele Casula

Two of the primary sources of error in the Cluster dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) technique arise from the use of finite size clusters and finite size baths, which makes the development of impurity solvers that can treat larger systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-12 P. Rosenberg , D. Sénéchal , A. -M. S. Tremblay , M. Charlebois

A cluster Monte Carlo method for systems of classical spins with purely dipolar couplings is presented. It is tested and applied for finite arrays of perpendicular Ising dipoles on the triangular lattice. This model is a modification with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ulrich K. Roessler

A Monte Carlo Renormalization Group algorithm is used on the Ising model to derive critical exponents and the critical temperature. The algorithm is based on a minimum relative entropy iteration developed previously to derive potentials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John P. Donohue

We show that addition of Metropolis single spin-flips to the Wolff cluster flipping Monte Carlo procedure leads to a dramatic {\bf increase} in performance for the spin-1/2 Ising model. We also show that adding Wolff cluster flipping to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Plascak , Alan M. Ferrenberg , D. P. Landau

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 propose a streamlined combination scheme of the transcorrelation (TC) and coupled cluster (CC) theory, which not only increases the convergence rate with respect to the basis set, but also extends the applicability of the lowest order CC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-28 Ke Liao , Thomas Schraivogel , Hongjun Luo , Daniel Kats , Ali Alavi