Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2012-03-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
Quantum Monte Carlo methods provide in principle an accurate treatment of the many-body problem of the ground and excited states of condensed systems. In practice, however, uncontrolled errors such as those arising from the fixed-node and pseudopotential approximations often limit the quality of results. We show that the accuracy of quantum Monte Carlo calculations is limited by using available pseudopotentials. In particular, it is necessary to include angular momentum channels in the pseudopotential for excited angular momentum states and to choose the local channel appropriately to obtain accurate results. Variational and diffusion Monte Carlo calculations for Zn, O, and Si atoms and ions demonstrate that these issues can affect total energies by up to several eV for common pseudopotentials. Adding higher-angular momentum channels into the pseudopotential description reduces such errors drastically without a significant increase in computational cost.
Drummond Neil D.
Hennig Richard G.
Tipton William W.
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