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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…
We apply the transcorrelated method to problems of multireference character. For this, we show that the choice of reference wavefunction during the Jastrow optimisation procedure is vital, and we propose a workflow wherein we use…
In this work, we explore the reuse of terms in the Jastrow factor between systems for use in the transcorrelated method, to reduce the number of optimisable parameters for a given system. In particular, we propose a workflow in which…
We demonstrate the accuracy of ground-state energies of the transcorrelated Hamiltonian, employing sophisticated Jastrow factors obtained from variational Monte Carlo, together with the coupled cluster and distinguishable cluster methods at…
It has been well established that the Jastrow correlation factor can effectively capture the electron correlation effects, and thus, the efficient optimization of the many-body wave function including the Jastrow correlation factor is of…
The transcorrelated (TC) method performs a similarity transformation on the electronic Schr\"odinger equation via Jastrow factorization of the wave function. This has demonstrated significant advancements in computational electronic…
Modern quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods often capture electron correlation through both explicitly correlating Jastrow factors and small to mid-sized configuration interaction (CI) expansions. Here, we study the additional optimization…
In this work we investigate the performance of a recently proposed transcorrelated (TC) approach based on a single-parameter correlation factor [JCP, 154, 8, 2021] for systems involving more than two electrons. The benefit of such an…
Quantum computing is emerging as a new computational paradigm with the potential to transform several research fields, including quantum chemistry. However, current hardware limitations (including limited coherence times, gate infidelities,…
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…
We present a Jastrow-factor-inspired variant of coupled cluster theory that accurately describes both weak and strong electron correlation. Compatibility with quantum Monte Carlo allows for variational energy evaluations and an…
We explore the applicability of the transcorrelated method to the elements in the second row of the periodic table. We use transcorrelated Hamiltonians in conjunction with full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo and coupled…
We have developed a flexible framework for constructing Jastrow factors which allows for the introduction of terms involving arbitrary numbers of particles. The use of various three- and four-body Jastrow terms in quantum Monte Carlo…
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms have long relied on Jastrow factors to incorporate dynamic correlation into trial wave functions. While Jastrow-type wave functions have been widely employed in real-space algorithms, they have seen…
We explore the use in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) of trial wave functions consisting of a Jastrow factor multiplied by a truncated configuration-interaction (CI) expansion in Slater determinants obtained from a CI perturbatively selected…
We introduce a basis of counting functions that, by cleanly tessellating three dimensional space, allows real space number counting Jastrow factors to be straightforwardly applied to general molecular situations. By exerting direct control…
We pursue the development and application of the recently-introduced linear optimization method for determining the optimal linear and nonlinear parameters of Jastrow-Slater wave functions in a variational Monte Carlo framework. In this…
We propose a Jastrow factor for electron-electron correlations that interpolates between the radial symmetry of the Coulomb interaction at short inter-particle distance and the space-group symmetry of the simulation cell at large…
We employ quantum Monte Carlo to obtain chemically accurate vertical and adiabatic excitation energies, and equilibrium excited-state structures for the small, yet challenging, formaldehyde and thioformaldehyde molecules. A key ingredient…
A form of Jastrow factor is introduced for use in quantum Monte Carlo simulations of finite and periodic systems. Test data are presented for atoms, molecules, and solids, including both all-electron and pseudopotential atoms. We…