There are two flavors of QMC, (a) variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and (b) projector Monte Carlo (PMC). VMC starts by proposing a functional form for the wavefunction and then optimizes the parameters of ...

The Monte Carlo method is a type of algorithm that reveals a distribution by randomly sampling its elements again and again. For example, say there are 40 red marbles, 20 green marbles, 25 orange ...