Boosting the accuracy and speed of quantum Monte Carlo: Size consistency and time step

Physical Review B

Volumn 93, Issue 24, 2016, Pages

  Zen, Andrea ^a,b   Sorella, Sandro ^c,d   Gillan, Michael J ^a,b   Michaelides, Angelos ^a,b   Alfè, Dario ^a,b  

^a LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

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EID: 84976897930     PISSN: 24699950     EISSN: 24699969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.241118     Document Type: Article

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