The Jastrow antisymmetric geminal power in Hilbert space: Theory, benchmarking, and application to a novel transition state
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
The Jastrow-modified antisymmetric geminal power (JAGP) ansatz in Hilbert space successfully overcomes two key failings of other pairing theories, namely, a lack of inter-pair correlations and a lack of multiple resonance structures, while maintaining a polynomially scaling cost, variational energies, and size consistency. Here, we present efficient quantum Monte Carlo algorithms that evaluate and optimize the JAGP energy for a cost that scales as the fifth power of the system size. We demonstrate the JAGP’s ability to describe both static and dynamic correlation by applying it to bond stretching in H{sub 2}O, C{sub 2}, and N{sub 2} as well as to a novel, multi-reference transition state of ethene. JAGP’s accuracy in these systems outperforms even the most sophisticated single-reference methods and approaches that of exponentially scaling active space methods.
- OSTI ID:
- 22251413
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 139, Issue 19; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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