Size-consistent variational approaches to nonlocal pseudopotentials: Standard and lattice regularized diffusion Monte Carlo methods revisited

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Casula, Michele ^a   Moroni, Saverio ^b,c   Sorella, Sandro ^b,c   Filippi, Claudia ^d  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION MONTE CARLO; DIFFUSION MONTE CARLO METHOD; DMC METHOD; LATTICE HAMILTONIANS; LEADING TERMS; NONLOCAL PSEUDOPOTENTIALS; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DIFFUSION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77951689736     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3380831     Document Type: Article

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