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A hybrid approach to excited-state-specific variational Monte Carlo and doubly excited states
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- We extend our hybrid linear-method/accelerated-descent variational Monte Carlo optimization approach to excited states and investigate its efficacy in double excitations. In addition to showing a superior statistical efficiency when compared to the linear method, our tests on the carbon dimer and cyclopentadiene show good energetic agreement with benchmark methods and experiment, respectively. We also demonstrate the ability to treat double excitations in systems that are too large for a full treatment by selective configuration interaction methods via an application to 4-aminobenzonitrile. Finally, we investigate the stability of state-specific variance optimization against collapse to other states' variance minima and find that symmetry, ansatz quality, and sample size all have roles to play in achieving stability.<br />Comment: 44 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables plus supplementary material, accepted by The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Subjects :
- Physics - Chemical Physics
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2008.03586
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024572