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20242026
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10 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Denoising Diffusion Monte Carlo Electron Densities with Physically Informed Variance Stabilization: From Fourier Filters to 3D UNETs

Kenneth O. Berard, Brenda Rubenstein, Jaron T. Krogel

Obtaining accurate electron densities is important for the fundamental description of molecular and condensed matter systems, as well as for the development of next-generation dens…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Thickness-Dependent Interlayer Coupling and Semiconductor-to-Semimetal Crossover in Arsenene Multilayers

Jeonghwan Ahn, Seoung-Hun Kang, Jaron T. Krogel

Interlayer interactions in layered materials are often assumed to transfer from the bilayer to the bulk, but this assumption can fail when chemically active out-of-plane orbitals p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Optimizing Density Functional Theory for Strain-Dependent Magnetic Properties of Monolayer MnBiTe with Diffusion Monte Carlo

Jeonghwan Ahn, Swarnava Ghosh, Seoung-Hun Kang +6

Monolayer MnBiTe (MBT) is an intrinsically magnetic topological insulator whose magnetic response is strongly affected by strain and electron correlation. In density fu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Nonmagnetic Ground State of Rutile RuO from Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo

Jeonghwan Ahn, Seoung-Hun Kang, Panchapakesan Ganesh +1

Rutile RuO has been proposed as an altermagnet, but its bulk magnetic ground state is still under debate because density-functional calculations give conflicting predictions. U…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Assessing Orbital Optimization in Variational and Diffusion Monte Carlo

Cody A. Melton, Jaron T. Krogel

In this work, we investigate the fidelity of orbital optimization in variational Monte Carlo to improve diffusion Monte Carlo results on correlated magnetic systems, using CrSBr as…

physics.comp-ph2025

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 mol…