Accurate, efficient, and simple forces computed with quantum Monte Carlo methods

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Chiesa, Simone ^a   Ceperley, D M ^a   Zhang, Shiwei ^b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITIES; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO METHODS; SLATER-JASTROW TRIAL WAVE FUNCTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; GEOMETRY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18044384242     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.036404     Document Type: Article

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