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20172023
most citedQMCPACK: Advances in the development, efficiency, and application of auxiliary field and real-space variational and diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo

146 citations · 600 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

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-sci2022★ 11 cited

Correlation consistent effective core potentials for late 3d transition metals adapted for plane wave calculations

Benjamin Kincaid, Guangming Wang, Haihan Zhou +1

We construct a new modification of correlation consistent effective potentials (ccECPs) for late elements Cr-Zn with Ne-core that are adapted for efficiency and low energy cut…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Magnetic measures of purity for MnBiTe

M. Chandler Bennett, Jeonghwan Ahn, Anh Pham +3

The intrinsically anti-ferromagnetic topological insulator, MnBiTe (MBT), has garnered significant attention recently. The excitement for this layered van der Waals bonded…

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Origin of Metal-Insulator Transitions in Correlated Perovskite Metals

M. Chandler Bennett, Guoxiang Hu, Guangming Wang +4

The mechanisms that drive metal-to-insulator transitions (MIT) in correlated solids are not fully understood. For example, the perovskite (PV) SrCoO3 is a FM metal while the oxygen…

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…