Session W13: Quantum Monte Carlo

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Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich
Morial Convention Center - 204


Thursday, March 13, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM

W13.00001: The Continuous Time Quantum Monte Carlo method as a cluster solver in the Dynamical Cluster Approximation
Karlis Mikelsons , Alexandru Macridin , Mark Jarrell , Emanuel Gull , Matthias Troyer , Sebastian Fuchs , Thomas Pruschke

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM

W13.00002: Continuous-time method for quantum impurity models
Emanuel Gull , Philipp Werner , Olivier Parcollet , Matthias Troyer

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM

W13.00003: Progress in the study of Molecular Hydrogen$-$Benzene binding$^\dagger$
Todd D. Beaudet , Michele Casula , Jeongnim Kim , Richard M. Martin

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
3:06PM - 3:18PM

W13.00004: Geometry optimization with a noisy potential energy surface
Jeffrey Grossman , Lucas Wagner

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
3:18PM - 3:30PM

W13.00005: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of NiO
Ryo Maezono , Mike D. Towler , Richard. J. Needs

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
3:30PM - 3:42PM

W13.00006: Efficient orbital storage and evaluation for quantum Monte Carlo simulations of solids
Kenneth Esler

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
3:42PM - 3:54PM

W13.00007: Triplet pairings and fermion wave functions nodal topologies
Lubos Mitas , Michal Bajdich , Shuming Hu

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
3:54PM - 4:06PM

W13.00008: Compact and accurate quantum Monte Carlo wave functions for first-row atoms
F. R. Petruzielo , Julien Toulouse , W. A. Al-Saidi , C. J. Umrigar , R. G. Hennig

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
4:06PM - 4:18PM

W13.00009: A DQMC study of cohesion energy of small Li clusters based on an RVB nodal structure
Daniel Nissenbaum , Leonardo Spanu , Claudio Attaccalite , Bernardo Barbiellini , Arun Bansil

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
4:18PM - 4:30PM

W13.00010: An Improved Pressure Estimator for quantum Monte Carlo
Jeremy McMinis , Jeongnim Kim , David Ceperley , Carlo Pierleoni

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
4:30PM - 4:42PM

W13.00011: The Model Periodic Coulomb interaction in k-space: modelling the spherically averaged structure factor
Rene Gaudoin , Idoia Gurtubay , Txema Pitarke

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
4:42PM - 4:54PM

W13.00012: Backflow transformation improves QMC calculations of silicon self-interstitial defects
William D. Parker , Kevin P. Driver , John W. Wilkins , Richard G. Hennig

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
4:54PM - 5:06PM

W13.00013: Density Dependence of Fixed-Node Errors
Kevin Rasch , Lubos Mitas

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
5:06PM - 5:18PM

W13.00014: Slater determinant and pfaffian expansions for wave functions in electronic structure quantum Monte Carlo
Michal Bajdich , Lubos Mitas

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