Fermion monte carlo without fixed nodes: A game of life, death, and annihilation in Slater determinant space

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Booth, George H ^a   Thom, Alex J W ^a,b   Alavi, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION PROCESS; APRIORI; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONFIGURATION INTERACTIONS; CORRELATION ENERGY; DINGER EQUATION; ENERGY SHIFT; FIXED NODES; GAME OF LIFE; MANY-ELECTRON SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO; NEW SYSTEM; NODAL STRUCTURES; PROJECTION FORMULAS; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO METHODS; SET OF RULES; SLATER DETERMINANTS;

GAME THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 68849097406     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3193710     Document Type: Article

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