Auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo at the basis set limit: application to lattice constants
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| author | Humer, Moritz Schlipf, Martin Sukurma, Zoran Bazrafshan, Sajad Kresse, Georg |
| author_facet | Humer, Moritz Schlipf, Martin Sukurma, Zoran Bazrafshan, Sajad Kresse, Georg |
| contents | We present a plane-wave (PW) implementation of the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method within the projector augmented-wave (PAW) formalism in the Vienna ab initio Simulation Package (VASP). By employing an exact inversion of the PAW overlap operator, our approach maintains cubic scaling while naturally operating at the complete basis set limit defined by the PW cutoff. We benchmark this framework by calculating the equilibrium lattice constants and bulk moduli of C, BN, BP, and Si. Our analysis demonstrates that AFQMC systematically corrects the lack of long-range screening in MP2 and the missing higher-order exchange in RPA. We identify RPA as the optimal reference method due to the rapid convergence of the remaining short-range correlations with respect to supercell size. The resulting lattice constants exhibit a mean absolute relative error of 0.14 % relative to experiment, establishing the method as a rigorous benchmark tool for structural properties in condensed matter systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo at the basis set limit: application to lattice constants Humer, Moritz Schlipf, Martin Sukurma, Zoran Bazrafshan, Sajad Kresse, Georg Computational Physics Chemical Physics We present a plane-wave (PW) implementation of the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method within the projector augmented-wave (PAW) formalism in the Vienna ab initio Simulation Package (VASP). By employing an exact inversion of the PAW overlap operator, our approach maintains cubic scaling while naturally operating at the complete basis set limit defined by the PW cutoff. We benchmark this framework by calculating the equilibrium lattice constants and bulk moduli of C, BN, BP, and Si. Our analysis demonstrates that AFQMC systematically corrects the lack of long-range screening in MP2 and the missing higher-order exchange in RPA. We identify RPA as the optimal reference method due to the rapid convergence of the remaining short-range correlations with respect to supercell size. The resulting lattice constants exhibit a mean absolute relative error of 0.14 % relative to experiment, establishing the method as a rigorous benchmark tool for structural properties in condensed matter systems. |
| title | Auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo at the basis set limit: application to lattice constants |
| topic | Computational Physics Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14923 |