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A quantum Monte Carlo method is introduced to optimize excited state trial wavefunctions. The method is applied in a correlation function Monte Carlo calculation to compute ground and excited state energies of bosonic van der Waals clusters…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. P. Nightingale , Vilen Melik-Alaverdian

Many quantum many-body wavefunctions, such as Jastrow-Slater, tensor network, and neural quantum states, are studied with the variational Monte Carlo technique, where stochastic optimization is usually performed to obtain a faithful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-21 Ruojing Peng , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

The quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is one of the most promising many-body electronic structure approaches. It employs stochastic techniques for solving the stationary Schr\" odinger equation and for evaluation of expectation values. The key…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-20 Michal Bajdich

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;…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-22 Matthew Brown , John Robert Trail , Pablo Lopez Rios , Richard Needs

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-30 Shivesh Pathak , Lucas K. Wagner

We propose a novel wave function partitioning method that integrates deep-learning variational Monte Carlo with ans\"atze based on generalized product functions. This approach effectively separates electronic wave functions (WFs) into…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Matěj Mezera , Paolo A. Erdman , Zeno Schätzle , P. Bernát Szabó , Frank Noé

This topical review describes the methodology of continuum variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations. These stochastic methods are based on many-body wave functions and are capable of achieving very high accuracy. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 R. J. Needs , M. D. Towler , N. D. Drummond , P. Lopez Rios

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

In this study we present an optimization method based on the quantum Monte Carlo diagonalization for many-fermion systems. Using the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation, employed to decompose the interactions in terms of auxiliary fields,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Yanagisawa

Variational Monte Carlo methods have recently been applied to the calculation of excited states; however, it is still an open question what objective function is most effective. A promising approach is to optimize excited states using a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 William A. Wheeler , Kevin G. Kleiner , Lucas K. Wagner

We present and motivate an efficient way to include orbital dependent many--body correlations in trial wave function of real--space Quantum Monte Carlo methods for use in electronic structure calculations. We apply our new…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Markus Holzmann , Saverio Moroni

We propose a framework for the design and analysis of optimization algorithms in variational quantum Monte Carlo, drawing on geometric insights into the corresponding function space. The framework translates infinite-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-16 Victor Armegioiu , Juan Carrasquilla , Siddhartha Mishra , Johannes Müller , Jannes Nys , Marius Zeinhofer , Hang Zhang

We propose a new variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method with an energy variance extrapolation for large-scale shell-model calculations. This variational Monte Carlo is a stochastic optimization method with a projected correlated condensed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-14 Takahiro Mizusaki , Noritaka Shimizu

Neural network parametrizations have increasingly been used to represent the ground and excited states in variational Monte Carlo (VMC) with promising results. However, traditional VMC methods only optimize the wave function in regions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Huan Zhang , Robert J. Webber , Michael Lindsey , Timothy C. Berkelbach , Jonathan Weare

We introduce a method for accurate quantum chemical calculations based on a simple variational wave function, defined by a single geminal that couples all the electrons into singlet pairs, combined with a real space correlation factor. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Marchi , S. Azadi , M. Casula , S. Sorella

We present a comparison between a number of recently introduced low-memory wave function optimization methods for variational Monte Carlo in which we find that first and second derivative methods possess strongly complementary relative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 Leon Otis , Eric Neuscamman

We explore the use in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) of trial wave functions consisting of a Jastrow factor multiplied by a truncated configuration-interaction (CI) expansion in Slater determinants obtained from a CI perturbatively selected…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-01-25 Emmanuel Giner , Roland Assaraf , Julien Toulouse

The projective quantum Monte Carlo (PQMC) algorithms are among the most powerful computational techniques to simulate the ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. However, they are efficient only if a sufficiently accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-04 S. Pilati , E. M. Inack , P. Pieri

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods can very accurately compute ground state properties of quantum systems. We applied these methods to a system of boson hard spheres to get exact, infinite system size results for the ground state at several…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Mark Dewing

With our recently proposed effective Hamiltonian via Monte Carlo, we are able to compute low energy physics of quantum systems. The advantage is that we can obtain not only the spectrum of ground and excited states, but also wave functions.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Xiang-Qian Luo , C. Q. Huang , J. Q. Jiang , H. Jirari , H. Kroeger , K. Moriarty