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Hybrid Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo for Molecular Systems

Computational Physics 2023-04-21 v4 Chemical Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a quantum Monte Carlo approach to solve the ground state many-body Schrodinger equation for the electronic ground state. The method combines optimization from variational Monte Carlo and propagation from auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo, in a way that significantly alleviates the sign problem. In application to molecular systems, we obtain highly accurate results for configurations dominated by either dynamic or static electronic correlation.

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@article{arxiv.2211.10824,
  title  = {Hybrid Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo for Molecular Systems},
  author = {Yixiao Chen and Linfeng Zhang and Weinan E and Roberto Car},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10824},
  year   = {2023}
}