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20172026
most citedQMCPACK: Advances in the development, efficiency, and application of auxiliary field and real-space variational and diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo

146 citations · 615 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Many-body benchmarking of DFT local-registry energetics in bilayer InSe

Jeonghwan Ahn, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Jovan Nelson +2

Density functional theory (DFT) is widely used to model twisted bilayers, but the accuracy of the local stacking energetics underlying such models remains uncertain. Here, we bench…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A many-body characterization of the fundamental gap in monolayer CrI

Daniel Staros, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Kevin Gasperich +3

The many-body fixed-node and fixed-phase spin-orbit Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) methods are applied to accurately predict the fundamental gap of monolayer CrI - the first exper…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 3 cited

Enhanced Twist-Averaging Technique for Magnetic Metals: Applications using Quantum Monte Carlo

Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Panchapakesan Ganesh, Jaron T. Krogel

We propose an improved twist-averaging scheme for quantum Monte Carlo methods that use converged Kohn-Sham or Hartree-Fock orbitals as the reference. This twist-averaging technique…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

A new generation of effective core potentials: selected Lanthanides and heavy elements

Haihan Zhou, Benjamin Kincaid, Guangming Wang +3

We construct correlation-consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for a selected set of heavy atoms and f-elements that are of significant current interest in materials and ch…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 7 cited

Emergent magnetism with continuous control in the ultrahigh conductivity layered oxide PdCoO2

Matthew Brahlek, Alessandro R. Mazza, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev +20

The current challenge to realizing continuously tunable magnetism lies in our inability to systematically change properties such as valence, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom as…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 11 cited

The role of electron correlations in the electronic structure of putative Chern magnet TbMnSn

Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Subhasish Mandal, Lubos Mitas +2

A member of the RMnSn rare-earth family materials, TbMnSn, recently showed experimental signatures of the realization of a quantum-limit Chern magnet. In this work,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Assessing the accuracy of compound formation energies with quantum Monte Carlo

Eric B. Isaacs, Hyeondeok Shin, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev +4

Accurately predicting the formation energy of a compound, which describes its thermodynamic stability, is a key challenge in materials physics. Here, we employ many-body quantum Mo…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 8 cited

Electronic structure of -RuCl by fixed-node and fixed-phase diffusion Monte Carlo methods

Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Cody A. Melton, Guangming Wang +1

Layered material -RuCl has caught wide attention due to its possible realization of Kitaev's spin liquid and its electronic structure that involves the interplay of electron…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 24 cited

A new generation of effective core potentials from correlated and spin-orbit calculations: selected heavy elements

Guangming Wang, Benjamin Kincaid, Haihan Zhou +4

We introduce new correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for the elements I, Te, Bi, Ag, Au, Pd, Ir, Mo, and W with , , and valence spaces. Thes…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 2 cited

A quantum Monte Carlo study of systems with effective core potentials and node nonlinearities

Haihan Zhou, Anthony Scemama, Guangming Wang +4

We study beryllium dihydride (BeH) and acetylene (CH) molecules using real-space diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method. The molecules serve as perhaps the simplest prototy…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 6 cited

Weighted nodal domain averages of eigenstates for quantum Monte Carlo and beyond

Lubos Mitas, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev

We study the nodal properties of many-body eigenstates of stationary Schrödinger equation that affect the accuracy of real-space quantum Monte Carlo calculations. In particular, we…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 29 cited

Cohesion and excitations of diamond-structure silicon by quantum Monte Carlo: Benchmarks and control of systematic biases

Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Guangming Wang, Cody A. Melton +2

We have carried out quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations of silicon crystal focusing on the accuracy and systematic biases that affect the electronic structure characteristics. T…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 10 cited

Binding and excitations in SiH molecular systems using quantum Monte Carlo

Guangming Wang, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Lubos Mitas

We present high-accuracy correlated calculations of small SiH molecular systems both in the ground and excited states. We employ quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) together with a v…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 146 cited

QMCPACK: Advances in the development, efficiency, and application of auxiliary field and real-space variational and diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo

P. R. C. Kent, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Anouar Benali +21

We review recent advances in the capabilities of the open source ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) package QMCPACK and the workflow tool Nexus used for greater efficiency and rep…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 32 cited

Accurate atomic correlation and total energies for correlation consistent effective core potentials

Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Cody A. Melton, M. Chandler Bennett +2

Very recently, we introduced a set of correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) constructed within full many-body approaches. By employing significantly more accura…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 54 cited

A new generation of effective core potentials from correlated calculations: 4s and 4p main group elements and first row additions

Guangming Wang, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Cody A. Melton +3

Recently, we developed a new method for generating effective core potentials (ECPs) using valence energy isospectrality with explicitly correlated all-electron (AE) excitations and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 89 cited

New generation of effective core potentials from correlated calculations: 3d transition metal series

Abdulgani Annaberdiyev, Guangming Wang, Cody A. Melton +3

Recently, we have introduced a new generation of effective core potentials (ECPs) designed for accurate correlated calculations but equally useful for a broad variety of approaches…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 70 cited

New generation of effective core potentials from correlated calculations: 2nd row elements

M. Chandler Bennett, Guangming Wang, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev +3

Very recently, we have introduced correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) derived from many-body approaches with the main target being its use in explicitly corre…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 124 cited

A New Generation of Effective Core Potentials for Correlated Calculations

M. Chandler Bennett, Cody A. Melton, Abdulgani Annaberdiyev +3

We outline ideas on desired properties for a new generation of effective core potentials (ECPs) that will allow valence-only calculations to reach the full potential offered by rec…