Twist-averaged Boundary Conditions in Continuum Quantum Monte Carlo

Details Twist-averaged Boundary Conditions in Continuum Quantum Monte Carlo Twist-averaged Boundary Conditions in Continuum Quantum Monte Carlo

2001-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101339v1

Phys.Rev.E64:016702,2001

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 figures, 12 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.016702

We develop and test Quantum Monte Carlo algorithms which use a``twist'' or a phase in the wave function for fermions in periodic boundary conditions. For metallic systems, averaging over the twist results in faster convergence to the thermodynamic limit than periodic boundary conditions for properties involving the kinetic energy with the same computational complexity. We determine exponents for the rate of convergence to the thermodynamic limit for the components of the energy of coulomb systems. We show results with twist averaged variational Monte Carlo on free particles, the Stoner model and the electron gas using Hartree-Fock, Slater-Jastrow, three-body and backflow wavefunction. We also discuss the use of twist averaging in the grand canonical ensemble, and numerical methods to accomplish the twist averaging.

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