Decorrelation of samples in quantum Monte Carlo calculations and scaling of autocorrelation time in Li and H2 O clusters

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Nissenbaum, D ^a   Barbiellini, B ^a   Bansil, A ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547137391     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.033412     Document Type: Article

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