Exchange-correlation energy in molecules: A variational quantum Monte Carlo study

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Hsing, C R ^a,b   Chou, M Y ^c   Lee, T K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CORRELATION THEORY; ELECTRONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ENERGY DENSITY; EXCHANGE-CORRELATION ENERGY; LOCAL-DENSITY APPROXIMATION (LDA); QUANTUM MONTE CARLO;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 33749080740     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.032507     Document Type: Article

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