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Accurate First Principles Calculation of Many-Body Interactions

CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NEW YORK NEW YORK 10003

Jules W. Moskowitz

CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NEW YORK NEW YORK 10003

Paula A. Whitlock

COURANT INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10012

Kevin E. Schmidt

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TEMPE, ARIZONA 85287

The electronic structure Schrödinger equation is solved for the van der Waals complexes spin-polarized H₂ and H₃, and the closed-shell systems He₂ and He₃ by Monte Carlo methods. Two types of calculations are performed, variational Monte Carlo, which gives an upper bound to the eigenvalue of the Schrödinger equation, and Green's function Monte Carlo, which can solve the Schrödinger equation exactly within statistical sampling errors. The simulations are carried out on an ETA-10 supercom puter, and already existing computer codes were exten sively modified to ensure highly efficient coding. A major component of the computations was the develop ment of highly optimized many-electron wave functions. The results from the variational Monte Carlo simulations are reported for both the two- and three-body interac tion energies.

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 5, No. 1, 57-71 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/109434209100500104


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