Impact of the Electron Density on the Fixed-Node Errors in Quantum Monte Carlo
arXiv:1107.3520 · doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2012.01.016
Abstract
We analyze the effect of increasing charge density on the Fixed Node Errors in Diffusion Monte Carlo by comparing FN-DMC calculations of the total ground state energy on a 4 electron system done with a Hartree-Fock based trial wave function to calculations by the same method on the same system using a Configuration Interaction based trial wave function. We do this for several different values of nuclear charge, Z. The Fixed Node Error of a Hartree-Fock trial wave function for a 4 electron system increases linearly with increasing nuclear charge.
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