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Blunt NS, Smart SD, Kersten JA, et al. Semi-stochastic full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo: Developments and application. J Chem Phys. 2015;142(18):184107doi: 10.1063/1.4920975.
Blunt, N. S., Smart, S. D., Kersten, J. A., Spencer, J. S., Booth, G. H., & Alavi, A. (2015). Semi-stochastic full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo: Developments and application. The Journal of chemical physics, 142(18), 184107. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4920975
Blunt, N S, et al. "Semi-stochastic full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo: Developments and application." The Journal of chemical physics vol. 142,18 (2015): 184107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4920975
Blunt NS, Smart SD, Kersten JA, Spencer JS, Booth GH, Alavi A. Semi-stochastic full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo: Developments and application. J Chem Phys. 2015 May 14;142(18):184107. doi: 10.1063/1.4920975. PMID: 25978883.
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J Chem Phys. 2015 May 14;142(18):184107. doi: 10.1063/1.4920975.

Semi-stochastic full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo: Developments and application.

The Journal of chemical physics

N S Blunt, Simon D Smart, J A F Kersten, J S Spencer, George H Booth, Ali Alavi

Affiliations

  1. University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
  2. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
  3. Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.

PMID: 25978883 DOI: 10.1063/1.4920975

Abstract

We expand upon the recent semi-stochastic adaptation to full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC). We present an alternate method for generating the deterministic space without a priori knowledge of the wave function and present stochastic efficiencies for a variety of both molecular and lattice systems. The algorithmic details of an efficient semi-stochastic implementation are presented, with particular consideration given to the effect that the adaptation has on parallel performance in FCIQMC. We further demonstrate the benefit for calculation of reduced density matrices in FCIQMC through replica sampling, where the semi-stochastic adaptation seems to have even larger efficiency gains. We then combine these ideas to produce explicitly correlated corrected FCIQMC energies for the beryllium dimer, for which stochastic errors on the order of wavenumber accuracy are achievable.

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