Rapidly convergent quantum Monte Carlo using a Chebyshev projector

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العنوان: Rapidly convergent quantum Monte Carlo using a Chebyshev projector
المؤلفون: Zhao, Zijun, Filip, Maria-Andreea, Thom, Alex J W
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Physics - Chemical Physics
الوصف: The multi-reference coupled-cluster Monte Carlo (MR-CCMC) algorithm is a determinant-based quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm that is conceptually similar to Full Configuration Interaction QMC (FCIQMC). It has been shown to offer a balanced treatment of both static and dynamic correlation while retaining polynomial scaling, although application to large systems with significant strong correlation remained impractical. In this paper, we document recent algorithmic advances that enable rapid convergence and a more black-box approach to the multi-reference problem. These include a logarithmically scaling metric-tree based excitation acceptance algorithm to search for determinants connected to the reference space at the desired excitation level and a symmetry-screening procedure for the reference space. We show that, for moderately sized reference spaces, the new search algorithm brings about an approximately 8-fold acceleration of one MR-CCMC iteration, while the symmetry screening procedure reduces the number of active reference space determinants at essentially no loss of accuracy. We also introduce a stochastic implementation of an approximate wall projector, which is the infinite imaginary time limit of the exponential projector, using a truncated expansion of the wall function in Chebyshev polynomials. Notably, this wall-Chebyshev projector can be used to accelerate any projector-based QMC algorithm. We show that it requires significantly fewer applications of the Hamiltonian to achieve the same statistical convergence. We benchmark these acceleration methods on the beryllium and carbon dimers, using initiator FCIQMC and MR-CCMC with basis sets up to cc-pVQZ quality.
Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00035H
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16685
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2402.16685
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv