Accurate quantum Monte Carlo forces for machine-learned force fields: Ethanol as a benchmark

Abstract

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a powerful method to calculate accurate energies and forces for molecular systems. In this work, we demonstrate how we can obtain accurate QMC forces for the fluxional ethanol molecule at room temperature by using either multi-determinant Jastrow-Slater wave functions in variational Monte Carlo or just a single determinant in diffusion Monte Carlo. The excellent performance of our protocols is assessed against high-level coupled cluster calculations on a diverse set of representative configurations of the system. Finally, we train machine-learning force fields on the QMC forces and compare them to models trained on coupled cluster reference data, showing that a force field based on the diffusion Monte Carlo forces with a single determinant can faithfully reproduce coupled cluster power spectra in molecular dynamics simulations.

9 pages, 3 figures

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