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by Neil Drummond
Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:47 pm
Forum: Quantum Monte Carlo
Topic: Backtranformed Jastrow
Replies: 1
Views: 9364

Re: Backtranformed Jastrow

The obvious pitfall in evaluating a Jastrow factor at backflow-transformed quasiparticle coordinates is the need to ensure the Kato cusp conditions are still satisfied. Evaluating a Jastrow factor at backflow transformed coordinates is used in, for example, recursive backflow wave functions after th...
by Neil Drummond
Sat Sep 24, 2022 8:06 pm
Forum: The CASINO program
Topic: molden2qmc
Replies: 45
Views: 343745

Re: molden2qmc

Thanks very much for maintaining molden2qmc!
by Neil Drummond
Mon May 16, 2022 9:55 am
Forum: Quantum Monte Carlo
Topic: QMC symposium A8 at the 2022 Psi-k conference
Replies: 0
Views: 26354

QMC symposium A8 at the 2022 Psi-k conference

Dear All,

Please consider submitting an abstract for the QMC symposium at the 2022 Psi-k conference in Lausanne. See https://www.psik2022.net/program/symposia. The deadline for early-bird registration is the 31st of May.

Best wishes,

Neil.
by Neil Drummond
Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:58 am
Forum: The CASINO program
Topic: Stat inefficiency
Replies: 7
Views: 16476

Re: Stat inefficiency

The Hartree-Fock nodes in the Be atom can easily be shown to be qualitatively wrong. However, since nodes for most other systems are also qualitatively wrong, I'm not sure why the Be atom should necessarily be so much worse. I'm not sure why you say that backflow between same-spin electrons is usele...
by Neil Drummond
Tue Jan 25, 2022 12:20 pm
Forum: The CASINO program
Topic: Stat inefficiency
Replies: 7
Views: 16476

Re: Stat inefficiency

Sorry, the comments about system size are obviously irrelevant in this case. But somewhere in the local energy landscape in configuration space there must have been some feature that led to lots of configuration branching, even though your overall wave function is good. Note that this doesn't invali...
by Neil Drummond
Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:56 pm
Forum: The CASINO program
Topic: Stat inefficiency
Replies: 7
Views: 16476

Re: Stat inefficiency

Dear Vladimir, That message means that the rate at which the walkers are branching is comparable with the rate at which they are decorrelating due to propagation in imaginary time. Hence each walker is similar to its sibling walkers (produced in the same branching event). Thus the walkers are not st...
by Neil Drummond
Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:17 pm
Forum: Jobs
Topic: Lecturer in Physics (Condensed Matter Theory)
Replies: 0
Views: 88218

Lecturer in Physics (Condensed Matter Theory)

Lancaster University, United Kingdom Physics Salary: £36,382 to £40,927 Closing Date: Friday 08 October 2021 Interview Date: Thursday 04 November 2021 Reference: A3509 The Department of Physics seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer to enhance and complement our thriving activities in theoretical co...
by Neil Drummond
Sat Aug 07, 2021 8:50 pm
Forum: Quantum Monte Carlo
Topic: DMC timestep bias asymptotic
Replies: 17
Views: 98536

Re: DMC timestep bias asymptotic

Dear Vladimir, For configuration-by-configuration DMC (in CASINO at least), the effective time step for any particular configuration that has just moved is tau_eff= p .tau, where p is the configuration-move acceptance probability and tau is the real time step. The mean effective time step tau_EFF=<t...
by Neil Drummond
Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:56 pm
Forum: The CASINO program
Topic: backflow issue when C=0
Replies: 7
Views: 42387

Re: backflow issue when C=0

Dear Vladimir, Thanks very much for this. As you suggest, replacing if(k>1.and.m<N_phi_eN(set))C(n,p+nphi-1*inc_k+1*inc_m)=-real(m,dp) with if(k>1.and.m<N_phi_ee(set))C(n,p+nphi-1*inc_k+1*inc_m)=-real(m,dp) in pbackflow.f90 should be correct. (I've checked with Pablo.) Sorry about the problem. Best ...
by Neil Drummond
Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:49 pm
Forum: Jobs
Topic: Funded PhD studentship for UK students
Replies: 0
Views: 38664

Funded PhD studentship for UK students

PhD Studentship Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of Charge Carriers in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors Supervisor Dr Neil Drummond (Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK) Funded PhD Research Project Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD research studentship held in the C...