It's similar to electron-by-electron sampling. However, instead of changing coordinates, the column in the Slater matrix changes due to modifications in the single-electron orbitals. As in the paper, but without needing to compute the derivative.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00648
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- Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:29 am
- Forum: The CASINO program
- Topic: Projection of a SJ WFN onto a CISD Basis via Stochastic Evaluation
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- Fri Sep 26, 2025 8:44 am
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Projection of a SJ WFN onto a CISD Basis via Stochastic Evaluation
Hello CASINO developers. In quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the choice of trial wave function plays a crucial role in determining the accuracy and efficiency of energy estimates. A widely used ansatz is the Slater–Jastrow (SJ) wave function, defined as: ΨSJ (R)=J(R)⋅D0(R), where R denotes the co...
- Sat Sep 20, 2025 4:17 pm
- Forum: The CASINO program
- Topic: Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
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Re: Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
ChatGPT told me that the code contains two methods for enforcing cusp conditions at nuclei: the Projection method (cusp_projection_matrix), which is commented out, and the Enforcing method (cusp_enforcing_matrix). Both methods always assume that orbitals are orthogonal (S = I), which is not generall...
- Sun Sep 14, 2025 12:52 am
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- Topic: Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
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Re: Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
I have created a Python package, https://pypi.org/project/adf2stowf/ , which includes a version from the CASINO distribution with minimal modifications (only adjusted to ensure proper package installation). This version will serve as the reference implementation. Unfortunately, in this version, the ...
- Fri Sep 12, 2025 1:07 am
- Forum: The CASINO program
- Topic: Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
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Re: Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
ChatGPT told me that instead of scipy.weave, I could use pybind11 and rewrote part of the code as an... I've spent much of my life so far happily telling computers what to do. I do hope it's not going to be the other way round in the future. I called it Cognilator (noun) - A device or system design...
- Thu Sep 11, 2025 1:00 am
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- Topic: Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
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Re: Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
ChatGPT told me that instead of scipy.weave, I could use pybind11 and rewrote part of the code as an example https://github.com/Konjkov/adf2stowf/blob/main/stowfn.cpp, also fixed the calculation for the hydrogen atom and added comments... I think it will also help with the virtual orbitals. Fashion ...
- Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:59 am
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Bug report & feature request for adf2stowf.py utility
Hello CASINO developers, The adf2stowf.py utility included in the CASINO distribution is not working. This is due to the fact that the scipy.weave module is outdated and no longer supported in recent versions of SciPy, along with several other minor issues. I have created a project at https://github...
- Sat Aug 30, 2025 3:03 am
- Forum: Quantum Monte Carlo
- Topic: Backflow transformation for Gaussian orbitals
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Re: Backflow transformation for Gaussian orbitals
and the equation
has a stationary point at which the optimization of ξi will converge and this is obvious flattened (corrected) trial function.- Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:13 am
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Re: Backflow transformation for Gaussian orbitals
I can't understand what Ceperly wanted to say. So if I start with the unsymmetrical version of the pair product trial function. I get a slightly different formula. 1.png Substitute the value of the expressions into the discrete step of the generalized Feynman-Kac / DMC for the trial function with co...
- Tue Aug 26, 2025 11:49 am
- Forum: Quantum Monte Carlo
- Topic: Backflow transformation for Gaussian orbitals
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Re: Backflow transformation for Gaussian orbitals
ChatGPT-5 told me that this is a consequence of the type of function defined in eq 20 In article "Fermion Nodes" "Journal o f Statistical Physics, Vol. 63, Nos. 5/6, 1991", DOI :10.1007/BF01030009 Screenshot_20250826_184834.png a plane wave is a complex exponential, so the formul...