Deterministic construction of nodal surfaces within quantum Monte Carlo: the case of FeS

Abstract

In diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) methods, the nodes (or zeroes) of the trial wave function dictate the magnitude of the fixed-node (FN) error. Within standard DMC implementations, they emanate from short multideterminant expansions, \textit{stochastically} optimized in the presence of a Jastrow factor. Here, following a recent proposal, we follow an alternative route by considering the nodes of selected configuration interaction (sCI) expansions built with the CIPSI (Configuration Interaction using a Perturbative Selection made Iteratively) algorithm. In contrast to standard implementations, these nodes can be \textit{systematically} and \textit{deterministically} improved by increasing the size of the sCI expansion. The present methodology is used to investigate the properties of the transition metal sulfide molecule FeS. This apparently simple molecule has been shown to be particularly challenging for electronic structure theory methods due to the proximity of two low-energy quintet electronic states of different spatial symmetry. In particular, we show that, at the triple-zeta basis set level, all sCI results --- including those extrapolated at the full CI (FCI) limit --- disagree with experiment, yielding an electronic ground state of ${}^5{\Sigma }^{+}$ symmetry. Performing FN-DMC simulation with sCI nodes, we show that the correct ${}^5\Delta$ ground state is obtained if sufficiently large expansions are used. Moreover, we show that one can systematically get accurate potential energy surfaces and reproduce the experimental dissociation energy as well as other spectroscopic constants.

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