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QUANTUM MONTE CARLO AND
THE CASINO PROGRAM

How to calculate the electronic structure and properties
of matter from first principles using random numbers

rotating molecule

Theory of Condensed Matter Group
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

RESEARCH IN THE NEEDS AND TOWLER GROUPS
Richard Needs, John Trail, Neil Drummond, Pablo Lopez Rios, Zoltan Radnai, Alexander Badinski, Matthew Brown, Graham Spink, Andrew Morris, Gareth Conduit.
Mike Towler, Andrea Ma.
The correlated motion of electrons plays a crucial role in the aggregation of atoms into molecules and solids, in electronic transport properties and in many other important physical phenomena. Ab initio electronic structure calculations in which the properties of such correlated electron systems are computed from first principles are a vital tool in modern condensed matter physics and molecular quantum chemistry. Currently the most popular way to include the effects of electron correlation in these calculations is density functional theory. This method is in principle exact, in reality fast and often very accurate, but does have a certain number of well-known limitations. In particular, with only limited knowledge available concerning the exact mathematical form of the so-called exchange-correlation functional, the accuracy of the approximate form of the theory is non-uniform and non-universal, and there are important classes of materials for which it gives qualitatively wrong answers. An important and complementary alternative for situations where accuracy is paramount is the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method, which has many attractive features for probing the electronic structure of real systems. It is an explicitly many-body method which takes electron correlation into account from the outset. It gives consistent, highly accurate results while at the same time exhibiting favourable scaling of computational cost with system size. This is in sharp contrast to the accurate methods used in mainstream quantum chemistry such as configuration interaction or coupled cluster theory which are impractical for anything other than small molecules. The use of quantum Monte Carlo has been greatly hampered over the last two decades by a combination of insufficient computer power and a lack of efficient computer programs of sufficient generality available to the community. Fast parallel computers are now widespread, and over the last few years we have created a powerful and general QMC computer program to carry out such calculations - the first version of 'CASINO' was distributed in the summer of 2000. The full power of the quantum Monte Carlo method is now available!

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What are we doing at the moment?

Our current Quantum Monte Carlo research efforts are focussed on a number of different areas :

The application of QMC to real problems such as :
- surface chemistry
- the physics and chemistry of materials containing transition elements
- metal-insulator transitions
- point defects in semiconductors
- excited states in molecules and solids
- simple chemical reactions
- the melting of silicon
- which is the smallest stable fullerene?

The development of new algorithms and methods useful in QMC calculations, in particular :
- the treatment of forces
- the calculation of conductivities
- improved techniques for trial wave function optimization
- the treatment of non-collinear spins
- QMC description of magnetic properties
- pseudopotentials for many-electron wave function calculations
- orbital optimization
- relativistic effects
- improved sampling methods
- implementation and evaluation of new basis function types (e.g. splines etc..)
- development of QMC algorithms with improved scaling of computational cost with system size (i.e. better than N3)
- creation of new functionals for DFT calculations from studies of pair-correlation functions and exchange-correlation holes in real materials.

The use of QMC to understand fundamental properties of correlated electron systems :
- dynamical correlation functions in the homogeneous electron gas
- the phase diagram of the electron-hole system

Cross-disciplinary cooperation :
- the promotion of interaction and mutual comprehension between the traditionally disparate yet in reality widely-overlapping theoretical chemistry, computational condensed matter theory and many-body theory communities.

Software development :
- making the 'CASINO' distribution as lovely as possible.

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How do I find out more?

A very non-technical explanation of solid-state quantum Monte Carlo (PDF) can be found online here.

For more technical questions, here is a review article (PDF) by Matthew Foulkes, Lubos Mitas, Richard Needs and Guna Rajagopal.

A more recent short review article (which had its origin as a Psi-k Newsletter "Scientific Highlight of the Month" - it says here) entitled The quantum Monte Carlo method by Mike Towler can be found here.

The freescience.info site has a large collection of material about quantum Monte Carlo here.


What are other people in the field doing?

Laughably incomplete list of references to Quantum Monte Carlo research around the world.

Can I come and do research in your group?

Yes! Particularly if you have your own money, although this may not be necessary. Enquiries with CV to Richard Needs or Mike Towler.

Workshops and conferences

We organized a workshop entitled "The Diffusion Monte Carlo Method" at CECAM, Lyon in France from 19th-21st September 2002. Click here for further details.

An informal workshop entitled "Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps" took place 24th-31st July 2005 at the Towler Institute in Vallico Sotto, Tuscany, Italy. The second of the conferences in this series and a QMC summer school were held in July and August 2006. More details available from the Institute web page.. If you would like to participate in future conferences at this venue or use the place for your own conference, contact Mike Towler.


CASINO

The Cambridge quantum Monte Carlo code

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Our code that we use to perform quantum Monte Carlo calculations is called 'CASINO'. The current program was written by R.J.Needs, M.D.Towler, N.D.Drummond and P.Lopez Rios. Important contributions to the initial development of QMC in this group up to 1996 were made by G.Rajagopal and A.J.Williamson. Additional contributions to CASINO by the following people are gratefully acknowledged: A.R.Porter, R.Q.Hood, A.J.Williamson, W.K.Leung, G.J.Brown, D.Alfè, C.Pickard, R.Gaudoin, B.Wood, A.Ma, R.Maezono, J.Trail, A.Badinski and P.R.C.Kent.

The citation required in any publication quoting results obtained with the current version of CASINO is as follows:
R.J. Needs, M.D. Towler, N.D. Drummond and P. Lopez Rios, CASINO version 2.1 User Manual, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (2007).

Note that in order not to offend Italian speakers we prefer to stress the final syllable and write the name of the program as CASINÒ, but clearly the user will be the final judge of whether this modification is justified.

Here is a list of some of the current capabilities of the code.

current version : 2.1 (7.2007)

  • Variational Monte Carlo (including variance minimization)
  • Fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo (pure or branching)
  • Applicable to finite systems such as atoms and molecules but also to systems with periodic boundary conditions in 1, 2 or 3 dimensions (polymers, slabs/surfaces, crystalline solids) with any crystal structure and in metallic or insulating phases. The code is also capable of treating both fluid and crystalline phases of the homogeneous electron gas (2D, 2D slab, or 3D) and also systems containing both electrons and 'holes' i.e. positively charged paricles of variable mass (2D, 3D, and 2D bilayers with separate layers of electrons and holes ; fluid, crystalline, and excitonic insulator phases.).
  • The code may use a variety of basis sets to expand the orbitals in the determinantal part of the many-electron trial wave function:
    (1) s, sp, p, d, f or g Gaussian basis functions centred on atoms or elsewhere (aperiodic or periodic systems) with cusp corrections in the case of all-electron calculations.
    (2) plane-waves (periodic systems)
    (3) atomic calculations with numerical orbitals interpolated from a radial grid.
    (4) blip functions i.e. cubic splines on a regular grid (periodic systems)
  • Uses very flexible Slater-Jastrow many-electron wave functions, where the Slater part may consist of multiple determinants. Advanced scheme for handling partial occupation of degenerate orbitals in building each determinant.
  • It is linked to various one-electron packages via a generic interface for each basis set type, which allows us to use a variety of different software to generate trial wave functions via density functional theory or Hartree-Fock calculations. In certain cases (e.g. excited states) it is also desirable to generate multi-determinant trial wave functions via standard quantum chemistry methods such as CIS/CISD/TD-DFT/CASSCF methods. With Gaussian basis sets we have used the following programs to calculate trial wave functions:
    (1) CRYSTAL (95/98/03). DFT/HF for molecules and systems periodic in 1,2 or 3 dimensions.
    (2) GAUSSIAN (94/98/03). Huge quantum chemistry package for molecules.
    (3) TURBOMOLE
    For calculations with blip function or plane-wave basis sets we use the PWSCF, ABINIT, CASTEP, k207 and GP packages. The linear scaling code ONETEP is also supported. Thus, any system that can be treated with any of the above programs can now in principle also be handled within QMC. Note that it is also planned at some stage to look at implementing links to other well-known DFT codes. If you wish to make a generous offer to assist with such projects, then please email Mike Towler, who will be pleased to hear from you.
  • Computation of excitation energies corresponding to either promotion or addition/subtraction of electrons.
  • Computation of distribution functions such as the pair correlation function and density matrices.
  • Periodic Coulomb interactions computed either with standard Ewald methods or with our MPC (modified periodic Coulomb) interaction which is both considerably faster than the Ewald method and exhibits much smaller 'finite-size effects'.
  • Non-local pseudopotentials with s, p, d non-locality, and core polarization potentials.
  • Spin-polarized calculations (e.g. of magnetic solids).
  • Backflow corrections.
  • The code has been written entirely in Fortran90 using modern software design methods, and is supposed to be easy to use, easy to install, and easy to read and understand. It contains a self-documenting help system and comes with a helpful manual and examples.
  • It is trivially transferable across a variety of hardware (including workstations, weakly-linked clusters, massively parallel supercomputers, laptops, PCs, and probably Palm Pilots). It uses MPI to function on parallel machines, but will work without it on single processors.
  • The speed of the code scales essentially linearly with the number of processors on a parallel computer.
  • In principle, the time taken to calculate the total energy to within a specified error bar with a QMC calculation scales (very roughly) as the third power of the system size. Simply by using localized orbitals and localized basis sets this scaling can be improved. For problems where the total energy per atom or per formula unit is to be computed in a periodic system (e.g. for calculating cohesive energies in solids) then CASINO can be made to scale independently of system size. If the objective is to calculate the total energy per simulation cell or per molecule, then the code can be made to scale quadratically with system size. Note that in neither case is this "linear scaling" as might be inferred from the literature.

How to get a copy of the code

The code is normally made available on request subject to certain conditions of use enforced by the user signing an agreement. No payment is requested from new academic users wishing to use the code for non-profit making purposes (but of course we appreciate any donations.). Profit-making bodies (for whom the clause about profit-making purposes in the CASINO agreement is deleted) should enquire for current pricing. Due to the large volume of enquiries and support requests, and a shortage of staff to deal with them, it is appreciated if new users do not request an extended email correspondence course when learning how to use the code. Please be aware that we run CASINO summer schools in our monastery in Tuscany every summer and we strongly recommend you attend these.

Please email Mike Towler if you wish to obtain a copy of the code, outlining briefy the nature of your interest. As of July 2007, there are 152 registered users.

Computational note

QMC calculations can be very computationally demanding. The demand varies according to the system and the statistical accuracy required: atomic calculations typically require only a few minutes on a PC, whereas calculating the excitonic properties of complex crystalline solids may require a great many CPU hours of supercomputer time.

QMC exhibits a high degree of scalability: demands on memory and disk are low, compared with high-order quantum chemistry methods. It is relatively easy to obtain 99% parallel efficiency on a 512 node parallel machine. CASINO has been mounted on many computers including machines in the Cambridge-Cranfield High-Performance Computing Centre and the UK national parallel facilities at Daresbury and Manchester.

The code has been tested and run on the following hardware :

Single-processor machines :

  • DEC Alpha
  • SGI Octane
  • Linux PCs (with Intel ifc-ifort-iforte/Lahey lf95/NAG f95/Portland pgf90/GNU g95 compilers. Beware early buggy versions of ifort, and note that f95 produces slow executables and g95 incredibly slow executables.
  • Macs with the g95 compiler
Parallel machines :
  • Cray T3E
  • Hitachi SR2201
  • SGI Origin 2000/3000
  • SGI Altix (Itanium2)
  • IBM SP3
  • IBM P-series
  • Fujitsu Primepower
  • SunFire Galaxy
  • Opteron clusters
  • Alpha multiprocessors
  • Linux multiprocessors and clusters (with above compilers)

Mailing list

We have an online mailing list 'casino_users at tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk' which is used both for occasional announcements of code updates and new distributions and for general discussions of quantum Monte Carlo and the use of CASINO. If you wish to join this list then mail mdt26 at cam.ac.uk .

Pseudopotential/Jastrow factor library

CASINO has its very own online library of pseudopotentials developed within our group by John Trail, Yoonseok Lee, Mike Towler and Richard Needs. Clicking on the desired element in the graphical periodic table will reveal the pseudopotential in KASINO grid format, and lots of associated information (expansion of the pseudopotential in Gaussians times power of r in both CRYSTAL9X/03 and GAUSSIAN98/03 format/atomic wavefunctions on a grid for ground state and excited states/energy information etc..). Use of this information is limited to CASINO users at present - contact Mike Towler to find out the URL.

 


SOME qmc LINKS

Current collaborators

Other people we know
doing continuum QMC research

Links (more please!)

 

The TCM quantum Monte Carlo online reference library


books
  • Quantum Monte Carlo study of the ground state of the two-dimensional Fermi fluid
    N.D. Drummond and R.J. Needs
    Submitted to Phys. Rev. B (2008)

    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo study of carbon, boron, and aluminum clusters
    C. R. Hsing, C. M. Wei, N. D. Drummond and R. J. Needs
    Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett (2008)
  • Finite-size errors in continuum quantum Monte Carlo calculations
    N.D. Drummond, R.J. Needs, A. Sorouri and W.M.C. Foulkes
    Submitted to Phys. Rev. B (2008)

    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo study of porphyrin transition metal complexes
    J. Koseki, R. Maezono, M. Tachikawa, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    Submitted to J. Chem. Phys. (2008)
  • Phase diagram of the low-density two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
    N.D. Drummond and R.J. Needs
    Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

  • Spectroscopic data for the LiH molecule from pseudopotential quantum Monte Carlo calculations
    J.R. Trail and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys. 128, 204103 (2008)

    [download]
  • Heavy-tailed random error in quantum Monte Carlo
    J.R. Trail
    Phys. Rev. E 77, 016703 (2008).

    [download]
  • Alternative sampling for variational quantum Monte Carlo
    J.R. Trail
    Phys. Rev. E 77, 016704 (2008).

    [download]
  • Nodal Pulay terms for accurate diffusion quantum Monte Carlo forces
    A. Badinski, P.D. Haynes and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 77 085111 (2008).

    [download]
  • Accurate forces in quantum Monte Carlo calculations with non-local pseudopotentials
    A. Badinski and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. E 76, 036707 (2007).

    [download]
  • Dissociation energy of the water dimer from quantum Monte Carlo calculations
    I.G. Gurtubay and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys 127, 124306 (2007).

    [download]
  • Van der Waals interactions between thin metallic wires and layers
    N.D. Drummond and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 166401 (2007).

    [PDF]
  • Accurate forces in quantum Monte Carlo calculations with non-local pseudopotentials
    A. Badinski and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. E 76, 036707 (2007).
  • Energies of the first-row atoms from quantum Monte Carlo
    M.D. Brown, J.R. Trail, P. Lopez Rios and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys. 126, 224110 (2007).

    [download]
  • Fragmentation method combined with quantum Monte Carlo calculations
    R. Maezono, H. Watanabe, S. Tanaka, M.D. Towler, and R.J. Needs
    J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 76 064301 (2007).

    [download]
  • Equation of state and Raman frequency of diamond from quantum Monte Carlo
    R. Maezono, A. Ma, M.D. Towler, and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. Lett.
    , 98, 025701 (2007)
    [PDF]
  • Inhomogeneous backflow transformations in quantum Monte Carlo
    P. Lopez Rios, A. Ma, N.D. Drummond, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. E
    ,74, 066701 (2006)
    [PDF]
  • The Quantum Monte Carlo method
    M.D. Towler
    Phys. Stat. Solidi,
    243, 2573 (2006)
    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the dissociation energy of the water dimer
    N.A. Benedek, I.K. Snook, M.D. Towler, and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys., 125, 104302 (2006)
  • Quantum Monte Carlo study of the Ne atom and the Ne+ ion
    N.D. Drummond, P. Lopez Rios, A. Ma, J.R. Trail, G. Spink, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys. 124, 224104 (2006).

    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the disociation energies of three-electron hemibonded radical cationic dimers
    I.G. Gurtubay, N.D. Drummond, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys. 124, 024318 (2006).
    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo, density functional theory, and pair-potential studies of solid neon
    N.D. Drummond and R.J. Needs
    Submitted to Phys. Rev. B

    [PDF]
  • A variance-minimization scheme for optimizing Jastrow factors
    N.D. Drummond and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 72, 085124 (2005)

    [PDF]
  • Electron emission from diamondoids : a diffusion quantum Monte Carlo study
    N.D. Drummond, A.J. Williamson, R.J. Needs and G. Galli
    Phys. Rev. Lett 95, 096801 (2005)

    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of the structural properties and the B1-B2 phase transition of MgO
    D. Alfè, M. Alfredsson, J. Brodholt, M.J. Gillan, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 72, 014114 (2005)

    [PDF]
  • Scheme for adding electron-nucleus cusps to Gaussian orbitals
    A.Ma, N.D. Drummond, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys. 122, 224322 (2005).

    [PDF]
  • All-electron diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations for the noble gas atoms He to Xe
    A. Ma, N.D. Drummond, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. E, 71, 066704 (2005)

    [PDF]
  • Diamond and betatin structures of Si studied with quantum Monte Carlo calculations
    D. Alfè, M.J. Gillan, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B, 70 214102 (2004).

    [PDF]
  • Smooth relativistic Hartree-Fock pseudopotentials for H to Ba and Lu to Hg
    J.R. Trail and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys. 122, 174109 (2005).

    [PDF]
  • Norm-conserving Hartree-Fock pseudopotentials and their asymptotic behaviour
    J.R. Trail and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys. 122, 014112 (2005).

    [PDF]
  • Exciton and biexciton energies in bilayer systems
    M.Y.J. Tan, N.D. Drummond and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 71, 033303 (2005).

    [PDF]
  • Interpretation of Hund's multiplicity rule for the carbon atom
    K. Hongo, R. Maezono, Y. Kawazoe, H. Yasuhara, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys., 121, 7144 (2004)

    [PDF]
  • Jastrow correlation factor for atoms, molecules, and solids
    N.D. Drummond, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 70, 235119 (2004)

    [PDF]
  • Coulomb finite-size effects in quasi-2d systems
    B. Wood, W.M.C. Foulkes, M.D. Towler and N.D. Drummond
    J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 16, 891 (2004)
    [PDF]
  • Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo study of three-dimensional Wigner crystals
    N.D. Drummond, Z. Radnai, J.R. Trail, M. D. Towler, and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 69, 085116 (2004)

    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO program : highly accurate total energy calculations for finite and periodic systems
    M.D. Towler
    Psi-k Newsletter "Scientific Highlight of the Month" December 2003
    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo study of the optical and diffusive properties of the vacancy defect in diamond
    R. Q. Hood, P. R. C. Kent, R. J. Needs, and P. R. Briddon
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076403 (2003)
    [PDF]
  • Stability and aromaticity of BiNi rings and fullerenes
    Jon M. Matxain, Jesus M. Ugalde, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    J. Phys. Chem A 107, 10004 (2003)
    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo studies of density functional theory
    M. Nekovee, W.M.C. Foulkes, and R.J. Needs
    Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 62, 463 (2003)
    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo study of sodium
    Ryo Maezono, M.D. Towler, Y. Lee and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 68, 165103 (2003)
    [PDF]
  • Unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory of Wigner crystals
    J.R. Trail, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 68, 045107 (2003)
    [PDF] .
  • Core-polarization potentials for Si and Ti
    Y. Lee and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 67, 035121 (2003)
    [PDF]
  • The diffusion quantum Monte Carlo method: designing trial wave functions for NiO
    R.J. Needs and M.D. Towler
    "Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Recent Progess in Many-Body Theories", Eds. R.F. Bishop and N.R. Walet, pp.435-444 (World Scientific, 2002).
  • Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for excited electronic states
    R.J. Needs, A.R. Porter and M.D. Towler
    Recent Advances in Quantum Monte Carlo Methods, II, eds. W.A. Lester, S.M. Rothstein and S. Tanaka, pp.143-155 (World Scientific, 2002).
  • Quantum Monte Carlo in molecular quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics
    M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    "Quantum Monte Carlo: Recent Advances and Common Problems in Condensed Matter and Field Theory" (ETS, Pisa, 2001).
  • Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for ground and excited states
    R.J. Needs, P.R.C. Kent, A.R. Porter, M.D. Towler and G. Rajagopal
    Int. J. Quant. Chem. 86, 218 (2001)
    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo analysis of exchange and correlation in the strongly inhomogeneous electron gas
    M. Nekovee, W.M.C. Foulkes, and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036401 (2001).
    [PDF]
  • Excitons in small hydrogenated silicon clusters.
    A.R. Porter, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    Phys. Rev. B 64, 035320 (2001).
    [PDF]
  • Electronic excited-state wave functions for quantum Monte Carlo: application to silane and methane
    A.R. Porter, O.K. Al-Mushadani, M.D. Towler and R.J. Needs
    J. Chem. Phys.114, 7795 (2001)
    [PDF]
  • The inhomogeneous RPA and many-electron trial functions
    R. Gaudoin, M. Nekovee, W. M. C. Foulkes, R. J. Needs and G. Rajagopal
    Phys. Rev. B 63, 115115 (2001)
    [PDF]
  • Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of solids (Review article)
    W.M.C. Foulkes, L. Mitas, R.J. Needs and G. Rajagopal
    Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 33 (2001)
    [PDF]
  • Pseudopotentials for correlated electron calculations
    Y. Lee, M.D. Towler, P.R.C. Kent, R.J. Needs and G. Rajagopal
    Phys. Rev. B. 62, 13347 (2000)
    [PDF]
  • Carbon clusters near the crossover to fullerene stability
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    Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2351 (1999)
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    Phys. Rev. B 59, 12344 (1999)
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    Phys. Rev. B 59, 1917 (1999)
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    Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 343, 189 (1999)
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    Phys. Rev. B, 57, 15293 (1998)
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    Phys. Rev. B, 57, 12140 (1998)
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    Phys. Rev. B 55, R4851-R4854 (1997)
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  • Quantum Monte Carlo investigation of exchange and correlation in silicon
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    Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3350 (1997)
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    L.M. Fraser, W.M.C. Foulkes, G. Rajagopal, R.J. Needs, S.D. Kenny and A.J. Williamson
    Phys. Rev. B 53, 1814 (1996)
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  • Quantum Monte Carlo studies of electronic systems
    R.J. Needs, G. Rajagopal, A.J. Williamson, L.M. Fraser, S.D. Kenny, W.M.C. Foulkes, A.J. James and P. Maccallum
    Journal of Korean Physical Society 29, S116-S120 (1996)
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  • Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the energy of the relativistic homogeneous electron gas
    S.D. Kenny, G. Rajagopal, R.J. Needs, W.-K. Leung, M.J. Godfrey, A.J. Williamson and W.M.C. Foulkes
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1099-1103 (1996)
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    Phys. Rev. B 53, 9640 (1996)
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    Phys. Rev. B 51, 10591 (1995)
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    Phys. Rev. A 51, 1898 (1995)
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    Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1959 (1994)
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    G. Rajagopal and R.J. Needs
    J. Comput. Phys. 115, 399 (1994)

 

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