Simulation and understanding of atomic and molecular quantum crystals

C Cazorla, J Boronat - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Quantum crystals abound in the whole range of solid-state species. Below a certain
threshold temperature the physical behavior of rare gases (He 4 and Ne), molecular solids …

QMCPACK: an open source ab initio quantum Monte Carlo package for the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids

J Kim, AD Baczewski, TD Beaudet… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
QMCPACK is an open source quantum Monte Carlo package for ab initio electronic
structure calculations. It supports calculations of metallic and insulating solids, molecules …

The nature of the interlayer interaction in bulk and few-layer phosphorus

L Shulenburger, AD Baczewski, Z Zhu, J Guan… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Sensitive dependence of the electronic structure on the number of layers in few-layer
phosphorene raises a question about the true nature of the interlayer interaction in so-called …

Generating efficient quantum chemistry codes for novel architectures

AV Titov, IS Ufimtsev, N Luehr… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We describe an extension of our graphics processing unit (GPU) electronic structure
program TeraChem to include atom-centered Gaussian basis sets with d angular …

Theory of finite size effects for electronic quantum Monte Carlo calculations of liquids and solids

M Holzmann, RC Clay III, MA Morales, NM Tubman… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Concentrating on zero temperature quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electronic systems,
we give a general description of the theory of finite size extrapolations of energies to the …

MPI+ MPI: a new hybrid approach to parallel programming with MPI plus shared memory

T Hoefler, J Dinan, D Buntinas, P Balaji, B Barrett… - Computing, 2013 - Springer
Hybrid parallel programming with the message passing interface (MPI) for internode
communication in conjunction with a shared-memory programming model to manage …

Phase stability of TiO2 polymorphs from diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo

Y Luo, A Benali, L Shulenburger, JT Krogel… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Titanium dioxide, TiO 2, has multiple applications in catalysis, energy conversion and
memristive devices because of its electronic structure. Most of these applications utilize the …

Benchmarking exchange-correlation functionals for hydrogen at high pressures using quantum Monte Carlo

RC Clay III, J Mcminis, JM McMahon, C Pierleoni… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
The ab initio phase diagram of dense hydrogen is very sensitive to errors in the treatment of
electronic correlation. Recently, it has been shown that the choice of the density functional …

Coupled cluster theory on graphics processing units I. The coupled cluster doubles method

AE DePrince III, JR Hammond - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The coupled cluster (CC) ansatz is generally recognized as providing one of the best wave
function-based descriptions of electronic correlation in small-and medium-sized molecules …

Quantum Monte Carlo applied to solids

L Shulenburger, TR Mattsson - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2013 - APS
We apply diffusion quantum Monte Carlo to a broad set of solids, benchmarking the method
by comparing bulk structural properties (equilibrium volume and bulk modulus) to …