Population size bias in diffusion Monte Carlo

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Boninsegni, Massimo ^a,b   Moroni, Saverio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE SYSTEMS; DIFFUSION MONTE CARLO; ENERGY ESTIMATES; FINITE POPULATION; FINITE TEMPERATURES; GROUND-STATE ENERGIES; PARA-HYDROGEN; PATH INTEGRAL; POPULATION SIZES; RANDOM WALKERS; SMALL CLUSTERS; SYSTEM SIZE;

GROUND STATE; MAMMALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84870713165     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056712     Document Type: Article

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