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We propose a method for Monte Carlo simulations of systems with a complex action. The method has the advantages of being in principle applicable to any such system and provides a solution to the overlap problem. We apply it in random matrix…

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The recently developed density matrix quantum Monte Carlo (DMQMC) algorithm stochastically samples the N -body thermal density matrix and hence provides access to exact properties of many-particle quantum systems at arbitrary temperatures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-15 Fionn D. Malone , N. S. Blunt , James J. Shepherd , D. K. K. Lee , J. S. Spencer , W. M. C. Foulkes

We present a simple, general purpose, quantum Monte-Carlo algorithm for out-of-equilibrium interacting nanoelectronics systems. It allows one to systematically compute the expansion of any physical observable (such as current or density) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Rosario E. V. Profumo , Christoph Groth , Laura Messio , Olivier Parcollet , Xavier Waintal

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods represent a powerful family of computational techniques for tackling complex quantum many-body problems and performing calculations of stationary state properties. QMC is among the most accurate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Alfonso Annarelli , Dario Alfè , Andrea Zen

We extend the recently introduced phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to any single-particle basis, and apply it to molecular systems with Gaussian basis sets. QMC methods in general scale favorably with system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Al-Saidi , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

The tunneling decay event of a metastable state in a fully connected quantum spin model can be simulated efficiently by path integral quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) [Isakov $et~al.$, Phys. Rev. Lett. ${\bf 117}$, 180402 (2016).]. This is because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Zhang Jiang , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Sergio Boixo , Hartmut Neven

In recent years, the combination of precise quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods with realistic nuclear interactions and consistent electroweak currents, in particular those constructed within effective field theories (EFTs), has lead to new…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 J. E. Lynn , I. Tews , S. Gandolfi , A. Lovato

It is believed that not all quantum systems can be simulated efficiently using classical computational resources. This notion is supported by the fact that in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations for a large number of important problems it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-14 Z. Ringel , D. L. Kovrizhin

In this note, variational Monte Carlo method based on neural quantum states for spin systems is reviewed. Using a neural network as the wave function allows for a more generalized expression of various types of interactions, including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Yuntai Song

We employ machine learning techniques to provide accurate variational wavefunctions for matrix quantum mechanics, with multiple bosonic and fermionic matrices. Variational quantum Monte Carlo is implemented with deep generative flows to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Xizhi Han , Sean A. Hartnoll

Modern quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods often capture electron correlation through both explicitly correlating Jastrow factors and small to mid-sized configuration interaction (CI) expansions. Here, we study the additional optimization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Scott M. Garner , Eric Neuscamman

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are equal weight quadrature rules to approximate integrals over the unit cube with respect to the uniform measure. In this paper we discuss QMC integration with respect to general product measures defined on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Josef Dick , Friedrich Pillichshammer

A general algorithm toward the solution of the fermion sign problem in finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations has been formulated for discretized fermion path integrals with nearest-neighbor interactions in the Trotter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. Mak , R. Egger , H. Weber-Gottschick

We employ a protocol, dubbed entanglement microscopy, to reveal the multipartite entanglement encoded in the full reduced density matrix of microscopic subregion both in spin and fermionic many-body systems. We exemplify our method by…

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Sampling from complicated probability distributions is a hard computational problem arising in many fields, including statistical physics, optimization, and machine learning. Quantum computers have recently been used to sample from…

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for high dimensional integrals over unit cubes and products of spheres are well-studied in literature. We study QMC tractability of integrals of functions defined over the product of $m$ copies of the simplex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Kinjal Basu

We tutorially review the determinantal Quantum Monte Carlo method for fermionic systems, using the Hubbard model as a case study. Starting with the basic ingredients of Monte Carlo simulations for classical systems, we introduce aspects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Raimundo R. dos Santos

Simulating models for quantum correlated matter unveils the inherent limitations of deterministic classical computations. In particular, in the case of quantum Monte Carlo methods, this is manifested by the emergence of negative weight…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-23 Tian-Cheng Yi , Richard T. Scalettar , Rubem Mondaini

We propose and analyze a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm for efficient simulation of wave propagation modeled by the Helmholtz equation in a bounded region in which the refractive index is random and spatially heterogenous. Our focus is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 M. Ganesh , Frances Y. Kuo , Ian H. Sloan

Quantum computing is a promising way to systematically solve the longstanding computational problem, the ground state of a many-body fermion system. Many efforts have been made to realise certain forms of quantum advantage in this problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li