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We use recent theoretical advances to develop a new functional form for interatomic forces in bulk silicon. The theoretical results underlying the model include a novel analysis of elastic properties for the diamond and graphitic structures…

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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…

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Achieving chemical accuracy for molecular simulations remains a central challenge in computational chemistry. Here, we present an embedded correlated wavefunction transfer learning (ECW-TL) framework for accurately simulating molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Xuezhi Bian , Emily A. Carter

In this work, we develop a mathematical framework for a Selected Configuration Interaction (SCI) algorithm within a bi-orthogonal basis for transcorrelated (TC) calculations. The bi-orthogonal basis used here serves as the equivalent of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Abdallah Ammar , Anthony Scemama , Emmanuel Giner

A procedure to obtain single-electron wavefunctions within the tight-binding formalism is proposed. It is based on linear combinations of Slater-type orbitals whose screening coefficients are extracted from the optical matrix elements of…

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We develop an empirical potential for silicon which represents a considerable improvement over existing models in describing local bonding for bulk defects and disordered phases. The model consists of two- and three-body interactions with…

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We present accurate many-body results of the electronic densities in several solid materials, including Si, NaCl, and Cu. These results are obtained using the ab initio auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method working in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-24 Siyuan Chen , Mario Motta , Fengjie Ma , Shiwei Zhang

The configuration interaction (CI) is a versatile wavefunction theory for interacting fermions but it involves an extremely long CI series. Using a symmetric tensor decomposition (STD) method, we convert the CI series into a compact and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wataru Uemura , Osamu Sugino

We reexamine the recently introduced basis-set correction theory based on density-functional theory consisting in correcting the basis-set incompleteness error of wave-function methods using a density functional. We use a one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Diata Traore , Emmanuel Giner , Julien Toulouse

We benchmark ionisation and excitation energies of transition-metal atoms Sc-Zn with a transcorrelated Hamiltonian combined with pseudopotentials. The similarity transformed Hamiltonian provides compact TC wave functions in affordable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Kristoffer Simula , Maria-Andreea Filip , Ali Alavi

An efficient implementation for approximate inclusion of the three-body operator arising in transcorrelated methods via exclusion of explicit three-body components (xTC) is presented and tested against results in the "HEAT" benchmark set…

Using the finite simulation-cell homogeneous electron gas (HEG) as a model, we investigate the convergence of the correlation energy to the complete basis set (CBS) limit in methods utilising plane-wave wavefunction expansions. Simple…

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Transcorrelation (TC) techniques effectively enhance convergence rates in strongly correlated fermionic systems by embedding electron-electron cusp into the Jastrow factor of similarity transformations, yielding a non-Hermitian, yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Bruna G. M. Araújo , Antonio M S Macedo

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…

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Quantum embedding methods have recently developed significantly to model large molecular structures. This work proposes a novel wave function theory in density functional theory (WTF-in-DFT) embedding scheme based on pair-coupled cluster…

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Tight-binding (TB) molecular dynamics (MD) has emerged as a powerful method for investigating the atomic-scale structure of materials --- in particular the interplay between structural and electronic properties --- bridging the gap between…

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Quantum embedding theories are promising approaches to investigate strongly-correlated electronic states of active regions of large-scale molecular or condensed systems. Notable examples are spin defects in semiconductors and insulators. We…

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We apply diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) to a broad set of solids, benchmarking the method by comparing bulk structural properties (equilibrium volume and bulk modulus) to experiment and DFT based theories. The test set includes…

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