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most citedUnbiasing Fermionic Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Matrix Product State Trial Wavefunctions

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physics.chem-ph2026

Size Extensive Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Perturbative Coupled Cluster Trial Wavefunction

Yichi Zhang, Ankit Mahajan, Yann Damour +1

In this work, we develop a size extensive Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) approach that scales as for local energy evaluation by treating the Coupled Cluster S…

cond-mat.str-el2026★ 1 cited

Study of the triangular-lattice Hubbard model with constrained-path quantum Monte Carlo

Shu Fay Ung, Ankit Mahajan, David R. Reichman

We benchmark constrained-path Monte Carlo (CPMC) on the triangular-lattice Hubbard model for several fillings and values and show that symmetry-adapted trial wave functions sub…

physics.chem-ph2026

Nuclear gradients from auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo and their application in geometry optimization and transition state search

Jo S. Kurian, Ankit Mahajan, Sandeep Sharma

In this article, we present a method for computing accurate and scalable nuclear forces within the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) framework. Our approach lev…

physics.chem-ph2025

Evaluating Multiconfigurational Trials for Accurate Phaseless Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo on 3d Transition Metal Complexes

Hung T. Vuong, Ankit Mahajan, John L. Weber +3

In this study, we evaluate multi-configurational trial wave function protocols for phaseless auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) on transition metal containing systems.…

physics.chem-ph2025

Excited states in auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo

Ankit Mahajan, Sandeep Sharma, Shiwei Zhang +1

We systematically investigate the calculation of excited states in quantum chemistry using auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). Symmetry allows targeting of the lowest trip…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 3 cited

Mixed Quantum-Classical Methods for Polaron Spectral Functions

Haimi Nguyen, Arkajit Mandal, Ankit Mahajan +1

In this work, using two distinct semiclassical approaches, namely the mean-field Ehrenfest (MFE) method and the mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH), we investigate the spect…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 1 cited

Beyond CCSD(T) accuracy at lower scaling with auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo

Ankit Mahajan, James H. Thorpe, Jo S. Kurian +3

We introduce a black-box auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) approach to perform highly accurate electronic structure calculations using configuration interaction singles a…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 13 cited

Improved modularity and new features in ipie: Toward even larger AFQMC calculations on CPUs and GPUs at zero and finite temperatures

Tong Jiang, Moritz K. A. Baumgarten, Pierre-François Loos +6

ipie is a Python-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) package that has undergone substantial improvements since its initial release [J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2023, 19(…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Benchmarking the Exponential Ansatz for the Holstein model

Junjie Yang, Zhi-Hao Cui, Ankit Mahajan +3

Polarons are quasiparticles formed as a result of lattice distortions induced by charge carriers. The single-electron Holstein model captures the fundamentals of single polaron phy…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Ab Initio Polaron Wave Functions

Paul J. Robinson, Joonho Lee, Ankit Mahajan +1

In this work we demonstrate that accurate ground state wave functions may be constructed for polarons in a fully ab initio setting across the wide range of couplings associated wit…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 1 cited

Structure and dynamics of electron-phonon coupled systems using neural quantum states

Ankit Mahajan, Paul J. Robinson, Joonho Lee +1

In this work, we use neural quantum states (NQS) to describe the high-dimensional wave functions of electron-phonon coupled systems. We demonstrate that NQS can accurately and syst…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 17 cited

Unbiasing Fermionic Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Matrix Product State Trial Wavefunctions

Tong Jiang, Bryan O'Gorman, Ankit Mahajan +1

In this work, we report, for the first time, an implementation of fermionic auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) using matrix product state (MPS) trial wavefunctions, dubbed…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 10 cited

Scalable Ab Initio Electronic Structure Methods with Near Chemical Accuracy for Main Group Chemistry

Yujing Wei, Sibali Debnath, John L. Weber +3

This study evaluates the precision of widely recognized quantum chemical methodologies, CCSD(T), DLPNO-CCSD(T) and localized ph-AFQMC, for determining the thermochemistry of main g…