Towards Large-Scale AFQMC Calculations: Large Time Step Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo
| Autor: | Sukurma, Zoran, Schlipf, Martin, Humer, Moritz, Taheridehkordi, Amir, Kresse, Georg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We report modifications of the ph-AFQMC algorithm that allow the use of large time steps and reliable time step extrapolation. Our modified algorithm eliminates size-consistency errors present in the standard algorithm when large time steps are employed. We investigate various methods to approximate the exponential of the one-body operator within the AFQMC framework, distinctly demonstrating the superiority of Krylov methods over the conventional Taylor expansion. We assess various propagators within AFQMC and demonstrate that the Split-2 propagator is the optimal method, exhibiting the smallest time-step errors. For the HEAT set molecules, the time-step extrapolated energies deviate on average by only 0.19 kcal/mol from the accurate small time-step energies. For small water clusters, we obtain accurate complete basis-set binding energies using time-step extrapolation with a mean absolute error of 0.07 kcal/mol compared to CCSD(T). Using large time-step ph-AFQMC for the N$_2$ dimer, we show that accurate bond lengths can be obtained while reducing CPU time by an order of magnitude. Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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