Ab Initio Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Uniform Electron Gas without Fixed Nodes II: Unpolarized Case

Abstract

In a recent publication [S. Groth \textit{et al.}, PRB (2016)], we have shown that the combination of two novel complementary quantum Monte Carlo approaches, namely configuration path integral Monte Carlo (CPIMC) [T. Schoof \textit{et al.}, PRL \textbf{115}, 130402 (2015)] and permutation blocking path integral Monte Carlo (PB-PIMC) [T. Dornheim \textit{et al.}, NJP \textbf{17}, 073017 (2015)], allows for the accurate computation of thermodynamic properties of the spin-polarized uniform electron gas (UEG) over a wide range of temperatures and densities without the fixed-node approximation. In the present work, we extend this concept to the unpolarized case, which requires non-trivial enhancements that we describe in detail. We compare our new simulation results with recent restricted path integral Monte Carlo data [E. Brown \textit{et al}., PRL \textbf{110}, 146405 (2013)] for different energy contributions and pair distribution functions and find, for the exchange correlation energy, overall better agreement than for the spin-polarized case, while the separate kinetic and potential contributions substantially deviate.

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