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Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo

Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) is, in principle, an exact method for solving the Schrödinger equation for the ground-state of a many-body system; though in practice it is found that there are some approximations that have to be made.

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• The Method
• A DMC Algorithm
• The Fixed-Node Approximation
• DMC With Non-Local Pseudopotentials
• Performing DMC Calculations on Parallel Computers

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Andrew Williamson
Tue Nov 19 17:11:34 GMT 1996