Electronic Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Atomic Forces, Vibrations, and Anharmonicities

Details Electronic Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Atomic Forces, Vibrations, and Anharmonicities Electronic Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Atomic Forces, Vibrations, and Anharmonicities

2004-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0411209v2

Physics

Chemical Physics

6 pages, 2 figures; updated content

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1924690

Atomic forces are calculated for first-row monohydrides and carbon monoxide within electronic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). Accurate and efficient forces are achieved by using an improved method for moving variational parameters in variational QMC. Newton's method with singular value decomposition (SVD) is combined with steepest descent (SD) updates along directions rejected by the SVD, after initial SD steps. Dissociation energies in variational and diffusion QMC agree well with experiment. The atomic forces agree quantitatively with potential energy surfaces, demonstrating the accuracy of this force procedure. The harmonic vibrational frequencies and anharmonicity constants, derived from the QMC energies and atomic forces, also agree well with experimental values.

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