[HTML][HTML] TurboGenius: Python suite for high-throughput calculations of ab initio quantum Monte Carlo methods

K Nakano, O Kohulák, A Raghav, M Casula… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
TurboGenius is an open-source Python package designed to fully control ab initio quantum
Monte Carlo (QMC) jobs using a Python script, which allows one to perform high-throughput …

Machine learning diffusion monte carlo forces

C Huang, BM Rubenstein - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2022 - ACS Publications
Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is one of the most accurate techniques available for calculating
the electronic properties of molecules and materials, yet it often remains a challenge to …

Efficient calculation of unbiased atomic forces in ab initio variational Monte Carlo

K Nakano, M Casula, G Tenti - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a state-of-the-art numerical approach for evaluating
accurate expectation values of many-body wave functions. However, one of the major …

Principal deuterium Hugoniot via quantum Monte Carlo and -learning

G Tenti, K Nakano, A Tirelli, S Sorella, M Casula - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We present a study of the principal deuterium Hugoniot for pressures up to 150 GPa, using
machine learning potentials (MLPs) trained with quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) energies …

[HTML][HTML] Space-warp coordinate transformation for efficient ionic force calculations in quantum Monte Carlo

K Nakano, A Raghav, S Sorella - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are a state-of-the-art computational
approach to obtaining highly accurate many-body wave functions. Although QMC methods …

Computation of forces and stresses in solids: Towards accurate structural optimization with auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo

S Chen, S Zhang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The accurate computation of forces and other energy derivatives has been a long-standing
challenge for quantum Monte Carlo methods. A number of technical obstacles contribute to …

Candidate structure for the -PRE phase of solid hydrogen

T Ichibha, Y Zhang, K Hongo, R Maezono… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Experimental progress finally reached the metallic solid hydrogen phase, which was
predicted by Wigner and Huntington over 80 years ago. However, the different structures in …

Towards structural optimization of gold nanoclusters with quantum Monte Carlo

J Tiihonen, H Häkkinen - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We study the prospects of using quantum Monte Carlo techniques (QMC) to optimize the
electronic wavefunctions and atomic geometries of gold compounds. Complex gold …

A Denser Hydrogen Inferred from First-Principles Simulations Challenges Jupiter's Interior Models

C Cozza, K Nakano, S Howard, H **e, R Helled… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
First-principle modeling of dense hydrogen is crucial in materials and planetary sciences.
Despite its apparent simplicity, predicting the ionic and electronic structure of hydrogen is a …

Gaussian processes for finite size extrapolation of many-body simulations

EJL Borda, KO Berard, A Lopez, B Rubenstein - Faraday Discussions, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Key to being able to accurately model the properties of realistic materials is being able to
predict their properties in the thermodynamic limit. Nevertheless, because most many-body …