QWalk: A quantum Monte Carlo program for electronic structure

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3390-3404

  Wagner, Lucas K ^a,b   Bajdich, Michal ^a   Mitas, Lubos ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The CNS Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Quantum mechanics; Stochastic methods

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL PACKAGE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC.STRUCTURE; MANY ELECTRON; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; OPEN-SOURCE; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO METHODS; STOCHASTIC METHODS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 62049084720     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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