Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-01-02
Phys. Rev. B 73, 024107 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.73.024107
We report quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), plane-wave density-functional theory (DFT), and interatomic pair-potential calculations of the zero-temperature equation of state (EOS) of solid neon. We find that the DFT EOS depends strongly on the choice of exchange-correlation functional, whereas the QMC EOS is extremely close to both the experimental EOS and the EOS obtained using the best semiempirical pair potential in the literature. This suggests that QMC is able to give an accurate treatment of van der Waals forces in real materials, unlike DFT. We calculate the QMC EOS up to very high densities, beyond the range of values for which experimental data are currently available. At high densities the QMC EOS is more accurate than the pair-potential EOS. We generate a different pair potential for neon by a direct evaluation of the QMC energy as a function of the separation of an isolated pair of neon atoms. The resulting pair potential reproduces the EOS more accurately than the equivalent potential generated using the coupled-cluster CCSD(T) method.
Drummond Neil D.
Needs Richard J.
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