Noncovalent interactions by quantum Monte Carlo

M Dubecky, L Mitas, P Jurecka - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a family of stochastic methods for solving quantum many-
body problems such as the stationary Schrödinger equation. The review introduces basic …

[PDF][PDF] Docking and ligand binding affinity: uses and pitfalls

MJR Yunta - Am. J. Model. Optim, 2016 - researchgate.net
In this review article, we will explore the foundations of different classes of docking and
scoring functions, their possible limitations, and their suitable application domains. We also …

Benchmarks and reliable DFT results for spin gaps of small ligand Fe (II) complexes

S Song, MC Kim, E Sim, A Benali… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
All-electron fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo provides benchmark spin gaps for four Fe (II)
octahedral complexes. Standard quantum chemical methods (semilocal DFT and CCSD (T)) …

Multideterminant wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo

MA Morales, J McMinis, BK Clark, J Kim… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have received considerable attention over past
decades due to their great promise for providing a direct solution to the many-body …

[HTML][HTML] Almost exact energies for the Gaussian-2 set with the semistochastic heat-bath configuration interaction method

Y Yao, E Giner, J Li, J Toulouse… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The recently developed semistochastic heat-bath configuration interaction (SHCI) method is
a systematically improvable selected configuration interaction plus perturbation theory …

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
ABSTRACT 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 …

Benchmark phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method for small molecules

Z Sukurma, M Schlipf, M Humer… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report a scalable Fortran implementation of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte
Carlo (ph-AFQMC) and demonstrate its excellent performance and beneficial scaling with …

A mountaineering strategy to excited states: Highly accurate energies and benchmarks for bicyclic systems

PF Loos, D Jacquemin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
Pursuing our efforts to define highly accurate estimates of the relative energies of excited
states in organic molecules, we investigate, with coupled-cluster methods including iterative …

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 …

Introduction to the variational and diffusion Monte Carlo methods

J Toulouse, R Assaraf, CJ Umrigar - Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
We provide a pedagogical introduction to the two main variants of real-space quantum
Monte Carlo methods for electronic structure calculations: variational Monte Carlo (VMC) …