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most citedQMCPACK : An open source ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo package for the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, and solids

290 citations · 568 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.chem-ph2025★ 2 cited

Pushing the Accuracy Limit of Foundation Neural Network Models with Quantum Monte Carlo Forces and Path Integrals

Anouar Benali, Thomas Plé, Olivier Adjoua +18

We propose an end-to-end integrated strategy to produce highly accurate quantum chemistry (QC) synthetic datasets (energies and forces) aimed at deriving Foundation Machine Learnin…

physics.comp-ph2025★ 7 cited

Reproducibility of fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo across diverse community codes: The case of water-methane dimer

Flaviano Della Pia, Benjamin X. Shi, Yasmine S. Al-Hamdani +30

Fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (FN-DMC) is a widely-trusted many-body method for solving the Schrödinger equation, known for its reliable predictions of material and mole…

physics.chem-ph2020

Towards a Systematic Improvement of the Fixed-Node Approximation in Diffusion Monte Carlo for Solids -- A Case Study In Diamond

Anouar Benali, Kevin Gasperich, Kenneth D. Jordan +9

While Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is in principle an exact stochastic method for \textit{ab initio} electronic structure calculations, in practice the fermionic sign problem necess…

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★ 16 cited

Diffusion Monte Carlo Study of the O Adsorption on a Single Layer Graphene

Hyeondeok Shin, Ye Luo, Anouar Benali +1

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations were performed for an accurate description of the nature of the O adsorption on a single layer graphene. We investigated the stable ori…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 290 cited

QMCPACK : An open source ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo package for the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, and solids

Jeongnim Kim, Andrew Baczewski, Todd D. Beaudet +45

QMCPACK is an open source quantum Monte Carlo package for ab-initio electronic structure calculations. It supports calculations of metallic and insulating solids, molecules, atoms,…