Performance assessment of the effective core potentials under the Fermionic neural network: first and second row elements

Abstract

The rapid development of deep learning techniques has driven the emergence of a neural network-based variational Monte Carlo method (referred to as FermiNet), which has manifested high accuracy and strong predictive power in the electronic structure calculations of atoms, molecules as well as some periodic systems. Recently, the implementation of the effective core potential (ECP) scheme in it further facilitates more efffcient calculations in practice. But there still lack comprehensive assessments on the ECP's performance under the FermiNet. In this work, we set sail to ffll this gap by conducting extensive tests on the ffrst two row elements regarding their atomic spectral and molecular properties. Our major ffnding is that in general the qualities of ECPs have been correctly reffected under the FermiNet. Two recently built ECP tables, namely ccECP and eCEPP, seem to prevail on the overall performance. Speciffcally, ccECP performs slightly better on the spectral precision and covers more elements, while eCEPP is more systematically built from both shape and energy consistency, and better treats the core polarisation. On the other hand, the high accuracy of the all-electron calculations is hindered by the absence of relativistic effects as well as the numerical instabilities in some heavier elements. Finally, with further in-depth discussions, we generate possible directions for developing and improving the FermiNet in the near future.

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