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We present an approach to the calculation of arbitrary spectral, thermal and excited state properties within the full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo framework. This is achieved via an unbiased projection of the Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 N. S. Blunt , Ali Alavi , George H. Booth

We describe and discuss a recently proposed quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to compute the ground-state properties of various systems of interacting fermions. In this method, the ground state is projected from an initial wave function by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Shiwei Zhang , J. Carlson , J. E. Gubernatis

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,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Lucas K. Wagner , David M. Ceperley

A new dimensional scaling method for the calculation of excited states of multielectron atoms is introduced. By including the principle and orbital quantum numbers in the dimension parameter, we obtain an energy expression for excited…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert K. Murawski , Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

In this paper we explore new ways to study the zero temperature limit of quantum statistical mechanics using Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We develop a Quantum Monte Carlo method in which one fixes the ground state energy as a parameter.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-30 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , David Gosset , Harvey B. Meyer

A Monte Carlo method is presented to evaluate quantum states with many particles moving in the continuum. The scattering state is generated at each time by a Monte Carlo random sampling algorithm. The same calculation are repeated until the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-06 Zhen-Xiang Xu , Chong Qi

We discuss an alternative accurate Monte Carlo method to calculate the ground-state energy and related quantities for Laughlin states of the fractional quantum Hall effect in a disk geometry. This alternative approach allows us to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Orion Ciftja , Carlos Wexler

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a stochastic method which has been particularly successful for ground-state electronic structure calculations but mostly unexplored for the computation of excited-state energies. Here, we show that, within a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Anthony Scemama , Anouar Benali , Denis Jacquemin , Michel Caffarel , Pierre-François Loos

We report on quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the ground and low-lying excited states of $A=9,10$ nuclei using realistic Hamiltonians containing the Argonne $v_{18}$ two-nucleon potential alone or with one of several three-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven C. Pieper , K. Varga , R. B. Wiringa

We construct an effective low-energy Hamiltonian from the classical action via Monte Carlo with importance sampling. We use Monte Carlo (i) to compute matrix elements of the transition amplitude and (ii) to construct stochastically a basis.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Caron , H. Kröger , G. Melkonyan , X. Q. Luo , K. J. M. Moriarty

We present here a supersymmetric (SUSY) approach for determining excitation energies within the context of a quantum Monte Carlo scheme. By using the fact that SUSY quantum mechanics gives rises to a series of isospectral Hamiltonians, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-18 Eric R. Bittner , Jeremy B. Maddox , Donald J. Kouri

Quantum computing offers potential solutions for finding ground states in condensed-matter physics and chemistry. However, achieving effective ground state preparation is also computationally hard for arbitrary Hamiltonians. It is necessary…

We formulate a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for calculating the ground state of many-boson systems. The method is based on a field-theoretical approach, and is closely related to existing fermion auxiliary-field QMC methods which are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang

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

We propose a novel quantum Monte Carlo method in configuration space, which stochastically samples the contribution from a large secondary space to the effective Hamiltonian in the energy dependent partitioning of L\"owdin. The method…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Seiichiro Ten-no

The band structure of silicon is calculated at the Gamma, X, and L wave vectors using diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods. Excited states are formed by promoting an electron from the valence band into the conduction band. We obtain good…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Williamson , Randolph Q. Hood , R. J. Needs , G. Rajagopal

Utilizing quantum computer to investigate quantum chemistry is an important research field nowadays. In addition to the ground-state problems that have been widely studied, the determination of excited-states plays a crucial role in the…

Monte Carlo is a versatile and frequently used tool in statistical physics and beyond. Correspondingly, the number of algorithms and variants reported in the literature is vast, and an overview is not easy to achieve. In this pedagogical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-04 Michael Kastner

A model about excited field of a particle is discussed. We found this model will give wave-particle duality clearly and its Lagrangian is consistent with Quantum Theory. A new interpretation of quantum mechanics but not statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Zhao

This is the documentation for generating random samples from the quantum state space in accordance with a specified distribution, associated with this webpage: http://tinyurl.com/QSampling . Ready-made samples (each with at least a million…