Systematic reduction of sign errors in many-body calculations of atoms and molecules

Details Systematic reduction of sign errors in many-body calculations of atoms and molecules Systematic reduction of sign errors in many-body calculations of atoms and molecules

2009-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3826v4

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Final version accepted in Physical Review Letters. The review history (referees' comments and our replies) is included in the

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The self-healing diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm (SHDMC) [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79}, 195117 (2009), {\it ibid.} {\bf 80}, 125110 (2009)] is shown to be an accurate and robust method for calculating the ground state of atoms and molecules. By direct comparison with accurate configuration interaction results for the oxygen atom we show that SHDMC converges systematically towards the ground-state wave function. We present results for the challenging N$_2$ molecule, where the binding energies obtained via both energy minimization and SHDMC are near chemical accuracy (1 kcal/mol). Moreover, we demonstrate that SHDMC is robust enough to find the nodal surface for systems at least as large as C$_{20}$ starting from random coefficients. SHDMC is a linear-scaling method, in the degrees of freedom of the nodes, that systematically reduces the fermion sign problem.

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