Alfe, D and Gillan, MJ (2004) Efficient localized basis set for quantum Monte Carlo calculations on condensed matter. PHYS REV B , 70 (16) , Article 161101. 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.161101.
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Abstract
We present an efficient scheme for representing many-body wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations. The scheme is based on B splines (blip functions), which consist of localized cubic splines centered on the points of a regular grid. We show that blip functions are unbiased, systematically improvable, and conveniently obtained from any standard plane-wave density functional theory (PW-DFT) code, and therefore provide a convenient and natural interface between PW-DFT and QMC calculations. We present tests on a 16-atom system of Si in the beta-tin structure, and on 2- and 8-atom systems of MgO in the NaCl structure. We show that already with such small systems the speed-up of blip functions with respect to plane waves is between one and two order of magnitudes, without compromising the accuracy.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Efficient localized basis set for quantum Monte Carlo calculations on condensed matter |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.161101 |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Earth Sciences UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > London Centre for Nanotechnology |
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