Fixed-node Quantum Monte Carlo: A Novel Approach

In this paper, a novel method for fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo is given. We have derived an expansion of the eigenvalue of the energy for a system and proved that the value of the energy calculated using the traditional fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo method is only the zero order approximation of the eigenvalue of the energy. But when using our novel method, in the case of only increasing less computing amounts (<1%), we can obtain conveniently the first order approximation, second order approximation, and so on. We have calculated the values of the zero, first and second approximation (0, 1 and 2) of the energies of 11A1 state of CH2, 1Ag (C4h, acet) state of C8 and the ground-state of H2O using this novel method. The results indicate that for 11A1 state of CH2, 1Ag (C4h, acet) state of C8 and the ground-state of H2O it needs only the second order approximation to obtain electronic correlation energy with over 97%. This demonstrates that this novel method is very excellent in both the computing accuracy and the amount of calculation required.

A new algorithm for the fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo method

A novel algorithm is proposed for the fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo (FNQMC) method.In contrast to previous procedures,its 'guiding function' is not optimized prior to diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) computation but synchronistically in the diffusion process The new algorithm can not only save CPU time,but also make both of the optimization and diffusion carried out according to the same sampling fashion,reaching the goal to improve each other This new optimizing procedure converges super-linearly,and thus can accelerate the particle diffusion During the diffusion process,the node of the 'guiding function' changes incessantly,which is conducible to reducing the 'fixed-node error' The new algorithm has been used to calculate the total energies of states X3B1 and a1A1 of CH2 as well as π-X2B1 and λ-2A1 of NH2 The singlet-triplet energy splitting (λEsT) in CH2 and π energy splitting in NH2 obtained with this present method are (45 542±1.840) and (141.644±1.589) kJ/mol,respectively The calculated results show that the novel algorthm is much superior to the conventional fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo in accuracy,statistical error and computational cost

Exact Fixed-node Quantum Monte Carlo： Differential Approach

A differential approach for exact fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo calculation was proposed in this paper. This new algorithm can be used to directly compute the energy differential between two systems in exact fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo process, making the statistical error of calculation reduce to order of 10^-2 kJ/mol and recover about more than 90% of the correlation energy. The approach was employed to set up a potential energy surface of a molecule, through a model of rigid move, and Jacobi transformation utilized to make energy calculation for two configurations of a molecule having good positive correlation. So, an accurate energy differential could be obtained, and the potential energy surface with good quality depicted. This novel algorithm was used to study the potential energy curve of the ground state of BH and the potential energy surface of H3, and could be also applied to study other related fields such as molecular spectroscopy and the energy variation of chemical reactions.

Exact Fixed-node Quantum Monte Carlo: Self-optimizing Procedure

In this paper, a novel exact fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo (EFNQMC) algorithm was proposed, which is a self-optimizing and self-improving procedure. In contrast to the previous EFNQMC method, the importance function of this method is optimized synchronistically in the diffusion procedure, but not before beginning the EFNQMC computation. In order to optimize the importance function, the improved steepest descent technique is used, in which the step size is automatically adjustable. The procedure is quasi-Newton type and converges super linearly. The present method also uses a novel trial function, which has correct electron-electron and electron-nucleus cusp conditions. The novel EFNQMC algorithm and the novel trial function are employed to calculate the energies of 1 1A 1 state of CH 2, 1A g state of C 8 and the ground-states of H 2, LiH, Li 2 and H 2O.

Quantum Monte Carlo method of localized molecular orbitals

The fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo (FNQMC) method is one of the most accuratemethods, with which Schrdinger equation could be solved including 80%--100% of thecorrelation energies for the molecules with 2-10 electrons. However, the method hassome imperfections, i.e. (i) parametric numbers are too many to be optimized, (ii) the cuspcondition of the trial function cannot be satisfied.