Related papers: Monte Carlo Hamiltonian
We suggest how to construct an effective low energy Hamiltonian via Monte Carlo starting from a given action. We test it by computing thermodynamical observables like average energy and specific heat for simple quantum systems.
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.…
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.…
The Monte Carlo (MC) Hamiltonian is a new stochastic method to solve many-body problems. The MC Hamiltonian represents an effective Hamiltonian in a finite energy window. We construct it from the classical action via Monte Carlo with…
In order to solve quantum field theory in a non-perturbative way, Lagrangian lattice simulations have been very successful. Here we discuss a recently proposed alternative Hamiltonian lattice formulation - the Monte Carlo Hamiltonian. In…
In order to extend the recently proposed Monte Carlo Hamiltonian to many-body systems, we suggest to concept of a stochastic basis. We apply it to the chain of $N_s=9$ coupled anharmonic oscillators. We compute the spectrum of excited…
We define a numerical scheme that allows to approximate a given Hamiltonian by an effective one, by requiring several constraints determined by exact properties of generic ''short range'' Hamiltonians. In this way the standard lattice fixed…
The Monte Carlo Hamiltonian method developed recently allows to investigate ground state and low-lying excited states of a quantum system, using Monte Carlo algorithm with importance sampling. However, conventional MC algorithm has some…
We further study the validity of the Monte Carlo Hamiltonian method. The advantage of the method, in comparison with the standard Monte Carlo Lagrangian approach, is its capability to study the excited states. We consider two quantum…
We introduce a general Monte Carlo scheme for achieving atomistic simulations with monoelectronic Hamiltonians including the thermalization of both nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom. The kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm is used to…
We present a simple and efficient method to optimize within energy minimization the determinantal component of the many-body wave functions commonly used in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The approach obtains the optimal wave function as…
Monte Carlo techniques have been widely employed in statistical physics as well as in quantum theory in the Lagrangian formulation. However, in some areas of application to quantum theories computational progress has been slow. Here we…
A simple technique is proposed for numerically determining equilibrium ion distribution functions belonging to free energies of the Poisson-Boltzmann type. The central idea is to perform a conventional Monte-Carlo simulation using the free…
We present a new way to compute thermodynamical observables on the lattice. We compute excited states and thermodynamical functions in the scalar model via the Monte Carlo Hamiltonian technique. We find agreement with standard Lagrangian…
The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm is a powerful Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method that uses Hamiltonian dynamics to generate samples from a target distribution. To fully exploit its potential, we must understand how…
With its systematic exploration of probability distributions, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is a potent Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique; it is an approach, however, ultimately contingent on the choice of a suitable Hamiltonian function. By…
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.…
The dynamics of classical and quantum systems which are driven by a high frequency ($\omega$) field is investigated. For classical systems the motion is separated into a slow part and a fast part. The motion for the slow part is computed…
We discuss a sampling algorithm which generates flat histogram in energy. In combination with transition matrix Monte Carlo, the density of states and derived quantities such as entropy and free energy as a function of temperature can be…
We present a Monte Carlo numerical investigation of the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model. We begin by discussing canonical Metropolis Monte Carlo calculations, in order to check the caloric curve of the HMF model and study finite size…