Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 20: Quantum Monte Carlo, part I

15 May 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Elif Ertekin, Jeffrey C Grossman

This lecture provides and introduction to Quantum Monte Carlo methods. We review the concept of electron correlation and introduce Variational Monte Carlo methods as an approach to going beyond the …

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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 21: Quantum Monte Carlo, part II

15 May 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

This is our second lecture in a series on Quantum Monte Carlo methods. We describe the Diffusion Monte Carlo approach here, in which the approximation to the solution is not restricted by choice of …

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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 4: Geometry Optimization and Seeing What You're Doing

13 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

In this lecture, we discuss various methods for finding the ground state structure of a given system by minimizing its energy. Derivative and non-derivative methods are discussed, as well as the …

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