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Semi-stochastic full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo: Developments and application.


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Authors

Blunt, NS 
Smart, Simon D 
Kersten, JAF 
Spencer, JS 
Booth, George H 

Abstract

We expand upon the recent semi-stochastic adaptation to full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC). We present an alternate method for generating the deterministic space without a priori knowledge of the wave function and present stochastic efficiencies for a variety of both molecular and lattice systems. The algorithmic details of an efficient semi-stochastic implementation are presented, with particular consideration given to the effect that the adaptation has on parallel performance in FCIQMC. We further demonstrate the benefit for calculation of reduced density matrices in FCIQMC through replica sampling, where the semi-stochastic adaptation seems to have even larger efficiency gains. We then combine these ideas to produce explicitly correlated corrected FCIQMC energies for the beryllium dimer, for which stochastic errors on the order of wavenumber accuracy are achievable.

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Keywords

wave functions, parallel processing, ground states, stochastic processes, configuration interaction

Journal Title

J Chem Phys

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Journal ISSN

0021-9606
1089-7690

Volume Title

142

Publisher

AIP Publishing
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J003867/1)
N.S.B. gratefully acknowledges Trinity College, Cambridge for funding. J.S.S. acknowledges the research environment provided by the Thomas Young Centre under Grant No. TYC-101. G.H.B. gratefully acknowledges the Royal Society for a university research fellowship. This work has been supported by the EPSRC under grant no. EP/J003867/1.