Talking across fields: a physicist's presentation of some mathematical aspects of quantum Monte Carlo methods

DOI10.5802/afst.1471zbMath1331.81037OpenAlexW2563917213MaRDI QIDQ5963360

Michel Caffarel

Publication date: 19 February 2016

Published in: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.5802/afst.1471

zbMATH Keywords

importance samplingFeynman-Kac formulafermion sign problemquantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Zero variance differential geometric Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms
• Ergodic Properties of Recurrent Diffusion Processes and Stabilization of the Solution to the Cauchy Problem for Parabolic Equations
• The fermion Monte Carlo revisited
• A New Multinomial Model and a Zero Variance Estimation
• On a probabilistic interpretation of shape derivatives of Dirichlet groundstates with application to Fermion nodes
• Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
• Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• QUANTUM MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF FERMIONS: A MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FIXED-NODE APPROXIMATION
• Monte Carlo sampling methods using Markov chains and their applications
• Fundamental Properties of Hamiltonian Operators of Schrodinger Type