Fixed-phase approximation and Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo

2018/01/30 by F. Delyon, Delyon, F., B. Bernu +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1801.09988

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Abstract

We present a simple approach to the fixed phase method in Quantum Monte Carlo. This applies to electrons in molecules and electron gas and is straightforwardly extended to the Schrödinger equation with magnetic field.

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