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The uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature is of high current interest due to its key relevance for many applications including dense plasmas and laser excited solids. In particular, density functional theory heavily relies on…
The uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature is of key relevance for many applications in the warm dense matter regime, e.g. dense plasmas and laser excited solids. Also, the quality of density functional theory calculations…
Recently a number of theoretical studies of the uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature have appeared that are of relevance for dense plasmas, warm dense matter and laser excited solids and thermodynamic density functional theory…
The uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature is of key relevance for many applications in dense plasmas, warm dense matter, laser excited solids and much more. Accurate thermodynamic data for the UEG are an essential ingredient for…
The new {\em ab initio} quantum path integral Monte Carlo approach has been developed and applied for the entropy difference calculations for the strongly coupled degenerated uniform electron gas (UEG), a well--known model of simple metals.…
The response of the uniform electron gas (UEG) to an external perturbation is of paramount importance for many applications. Recently, highly accurate results for the static density response function and the corresponding local field…
We present extensive new \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of the uniform electron gas (UEG) in the high-temperature regime, $8\leq\theta=k_\textnormal{B}T/E_\textnormal{F}\leq128$. This allows us to study the…
The accurate description of non-ideal quantum many-body systems is of prime importance for a host of applications within physics, quantum chemistry, material science, and related disciplines. At finite temperatures, the gold standard is…
We review the uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature and over a broad density range relevant for warm dense matter (WDM) applications. We provide an overview of different simulation techniques, focusing on recent developments in…
In a recent publication [S. Groth \textit{et al.}, PRB (2016)], we have shown that the combination of two novel complementary quantum Monte Carlo approaches, namely configuration path integral Monte Carlo (CPIMC) [T. Schoof \textit{et al.},…
Being motivated by the surge of fermionic quantum Monte Carlo simulations at finite temperature, we present a detailed analysis of the permutation-cycle properties of path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of degenerate electrons.…
We present extensive new \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for the spin-resolved density response of the uniform electron gas (UEG) at warm dense matter conditions. This allows us to unambiguously assess the accuracy…
We perform calculations of the {3D} finite-temperature homogeneous electron gas (HEG) in the warm-dense regime ({r_{s} \equiv (3/4\pi n)^{1/3}a_{B}^{- 1} = 1.0- 40.0} and {\Theta \equiv T/T_{F} = 0.0625- 8.0}) using restricted path integral…
We present extensive new \textit{ab intio} path integral Monte Carlo results for the momentum distribution function $n(\mathbf{k})$ of the uniform electron gas (UEG) in the warm dense matter (WDM) regime over a broad range of densities and…
Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations are used to calculate the momentum distribution of the homogeneous electron gas at finite temperature. This is done by calculating the off-diagonal elements of the real-space density matrix,…
Warm dense matter is one of the most active frontiers in plasma physics due to its relevance for dense astrophysical objects as well as for novel laboratory experiments in which matter is being strongly compressed e.g. by high-power lasers.…
We present extensive new \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulation results for the chemical potential of the warm dense uniform electron gas (UEG), spanning a broad range of densities and temperatures. This is achieved by…
We carry out extensive direct path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of the uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature for different values of the spin-polarization $\xi$. This allows us to unambiguously quantify the impact of…
Precise knowledge of the static density response function (SDRF) of the uniform electron gas (UEG) serves as key input for numerous applications, most importantly for density functional theory beyond generalized gradient approximations.…
Understanding the dynamic properties of the uniform electron gas (UEG) is important for numerous applications ranging from semiconductor physics to exotic warm dense matter. In this work, we apply the maximum entropy method (MEM), as…