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We develop a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm to calculate the analytical second-order derivative of the energy for the orbital-optimized variational quantum eigensolver (OO-VQE), which is a method to calculate eigenenergies of a given…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Yuya O. Nakagawa , Jiabao Chen , Shotaro Sudo , Yu-ya Ohnishi , Wataru Mizukami

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have been used to obtain accurate binding-energy data for pairs of parallel thin metallic wires and layers modeled by 1D and 2D homogeneous electron gases. We compare our QMC binding energies with results…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-03 N. D. Drummond , R. J. Needs

We review the use of continuum quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for the calculation of energy gaps from first principles, and present a broad set of excited-state calculations carried out with the variational and fixed-node diffusion QMC…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Ryan J. Hunt , Marcin Szyniszewski , Genki I. Prayogo , Ryo Maezono , Neil D. Drummond

The quantum algorithms for Monte Carlo integration (QMCI), which are based on quantum amplitude estimation (QAE), speed up expected value calculation compared with classical counterparts, and have been widely investigated along with their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Koichi Miyamoto

We consider the use in quantum Monte Carlo calculations of two types of valence bond wave functions based on strictly localized active orbitals, namely valence bond self-consistent-field (VBSCF) and breathing-orbital valence bond (BOVB)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-03-14 Benoît Braïda , Julien Toulouse , Michel Caffarel , C. J. Umrigar

By exploiting the invariance of the molecular Hamiltonian by a unitary transformation of the orbitals it is possible to significantly shorter the depth of the variational circuit in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Leonardo Ratini , Chiara Capecci , Leonardo Guidoni

Quantum annealing is a new method for finding extrema of multidimensional functions. Based on an extension of classical, simulated annealing, this approach appears robust with respect to avoiding local minima. Further, unlike some of its…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-22 A. B. Finnila , M. A. Gomez , C. Sebenik , C. Stenson , J. D. Doll

Using the convex structure of positive operator value measurements and of several quantities used in quantum metrology, such as quantum Fisher information or the quantum Van Trees information, we present an efficient numerical method to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Esteban Martínez-Vargas , Carlos Pineda , Pablo Barberis-Blostein

The implementation and reliability of a quadratic diffusion Monte Carlo method for the study of ground-state properties of atoms are discussed. We show in the simple yet non-trivial calculation of the binding energy of the Li atom that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Sarsa , J. Boronat , J. Casulleras

We describe a number of strategies for minimizing and calculating accurately the statistical uncertainty in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We investigate the impact of the sampling algorithm on the efficiency of the variational Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 R. M. Lee , G. J. Conduit , N. Nemec , P. Lopez Rios , N. D. Drummond

We present a simple, robust and highly efficient method for optimizing all parameters of many-body wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo calculations, applicable to continuum systems and lattice models. Based on a strong zero-variance…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Umrigar , Julien Toulouse , Claudia Filippi , S. Sorella , R. G. Hennig

Fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is a stochastic algorithm for finding the lowest energy many-fermion wave function with the same nodal surface as a chosen trial function. It has proved itself among the most accurate methods available…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 W. M. C. Foulkes , Randolph Q. Hood , R. J. Needs

We report the first successful application of the {\it ab initio} quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) framework to a phonon dispersion calculation. A full phonon dispersion of diamond is successfully calculated at the variational Monte Carlo (VMC)…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-14 Kousuke Nakano , Tommaso Morresi , Michele Casula , Ryo Maezono , Sandro Sorella

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a powerful method to calculate accurate energies and forces for molecular systems. In this work, we demonstrate how we can obtain accurate QMC forces for the fluxional ethanol molecule at room temperature by…

A two level sampling method is applied to variational Monte Carlo (VMC) that samples the one and two body parts of the wave function separately. The method is demonstrated on a single Li_2 molecule in free space and 32 H_2 molecules in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Mark Dewing

In this work we develop tools that enable the study of non-adiabatic effects with variational and diffusion Monte Carlo methods. We introduce a highly accurate wave function ansatz for electron-ion systems that can involve a combination of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Norm M. Tubman , Ilkka Kylänpää , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer , David M. Ceperley

We present a technique for optimizing hundreds of thousands of variational parameters in variational quantum Monte Carlo. By introducing iterative Krylov subspace solvers and by multiplying by the Hamiltonian and overlap matrices as they…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Eric Neuscamman , C. J. Umrigar , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We present unbiased, finite--variance estimators of energy derivatives for real--space diffusion Monte Carlo calculations within the fixed--node approximation. The derivative $d_\lambda E$ is fully consistent with the dependence…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-20 Jesse van Rhijn , Claudia Filippi , Stefania De Palo , Saverio Moroni

We propose a new scheme to implement the self-consistent optimization of the trial wave-function in constrained path auxiliary field Quantum Monte Carlo (CP-AFQMC) in the framewok of natural orbitals. In this scheme, a new trial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-15 Mingpu Qin

Quantum computers have a potential for solving quantum chemistry problems with higher accuracy than classical computers. Quantum computing quantum Monte Carlo (QC-QMC) is a QMC with a trial state prepared in quantum circuit, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shu Kanno , Hajime Nakamura , Takao Kobayashi , Shigeki Gocho , Miho Hatanaka , Naoki Yamamoto , Qi Gao