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A diffusion Monte Carlo study of small para-Hydrogen clusters

Atomic and Molecular Clusters 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

Ground state energies and chemical potentials of parahydrogen clusters are calculated from 3 to 40 molecules using the diffusion Monte Carlo technique with two different pH2-pH2 interactions. This calculation improves a previous one by the inclusion of three-body correlations in the importance sampling, by the time step adjustement and by a better estimation of the statistical errors. Apart from the cluster with 13 molecules, no other magic clusters are predicted, in contrast with path integral Monte Carlo results.

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@article{arxiv.0709.4557,
  title  = {A diffusion Monte Carlo study of small para-Hydrogen clusters},
  author = {R. Guardiola and J. Navarro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4557},
  year   = {2009}
}
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