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The study of alloys using computational methods has been a difficult task due to the usually unknown stoichiometry and local atomic ordering of the different structures experimentally. In order to combat this, first-principles methods have…

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We develop an efficient approach to evaluate range-separated exact exchange for grid or plane-wave based representations within the Generalized Kohn-Sham DFT (GKS-DFT) framework. The Coulomb kernel is fragmented in reciprocal space, and we…

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We explore the application of an extrapolative method that yields very accurate total and relative energies from variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) results. For a trial wave function consisting of a small…

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The precise understanding of adsorption energetics and molecular geometry at catalytic sites is fundamental for advancing catalysis, particularly under the constraints of resource efficiency and environmental sustainability. This study…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-16 Jeonghwan Ahn , Iuegyun Hong , Gwangyoung Lee , Hyeondeok Shin , Anouar Benali , Yongkyung Kwon

We present two machine learning methodologies that are capable of predicting diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) energies with small datasets (~60 DMC calculations in total). The first uses voxel deep neural networks (VDNNs) to predict DMC energy…

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DFT is used throughout nanoscience, especially when modeling spin-dependent properties that are important in spintronics. But standard quantum chemical methods (both CCSD(T) and self-consistent semilocal density functional calculations)…

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We present a study of spin-unpolarized and spin-polarized two-dimensional uniform electron liquids using variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) methods with Slater-Jastrow-backflow trial wave functions. Ground-state VMC…

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Quantum-mechanical methods are widely used for understanding molecular interactions throughout biology, chemistry, and materials science. Quantum diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and coupled cluster with single, double, and perturbative triple…

A quantum Monte Carlo study of the atomization energies for the G2 set of molecules is presented. Basis size dependence of diffusion Monte Carlo atomization energies is studied with a single determinant Slater-Jastrow trial wavefunction…

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Highly flexible Jastrow factors have found significant use in stochastic electronic structure methods such as variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion Monte Carlo, as well as in quantum chemical transcorrelated (TC) approaches, which…

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Multiconfigurational short-range density functional theory (MC-srDFT) rigorously combines ground state wavefunction theory with DFT. Unlike single-reference range-separated hybrid functionals, MC-srDFT has lacked theoretically grounded…

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Recent technical advances in dealing with finite-size errors make quantum Monte Carlo methods quite appealing for treating extended systems in electronic structure calculations, especially when commonly-used density functional theory (DFT)…

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We investigate the pressure-induced metal-insulator transition from diamond to beta-tin in bulk Silicon, using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) and density functional theory (DFT) approaches. We show that it is possible to efficiently describe…

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We report all-electron and pseudopotential calculations of the ground-stateenergies of the neutral Ne atom and the Ne+ ion using the variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) methods. We investigate different levels of…

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Static correlation is a difficult problem for density-functional theory (DFT) as it arises in cases of degenerate or quasi-degenerate states where a multideterminantal wave function provides the simplest reasonable first approximation to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Abraham Ponra , Carolyne Bakasa , Anne Justine Etindele , Mark E. Casida

Growth in computational resources has lead to the application of real space diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) to increasingly heavy elements. Although generally assumed to be small, we find that when using standard techniques the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 Jaron T. Krogel , Paul R. C. Kent

Multi-configurational wave-function theory (MC-WFT) that combines complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) approach with subsequent state interaction (SI) treatment of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), abbreviated as CASSCF-SO, plays…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Zhe-Bin Guan , Hong Jiang