Systematic reduction of sign errors in many-body problems: Generalization of self-healing diffusion Monte Carlo to excited states

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Reboredo, Fernando Agustín ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 70350638955     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.125110     Document Type: Article

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