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Matthew Foulkes

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Physics
 
 
 
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Location

 

810Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Azadi:2019:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.245142,
author = {Azadi, S and Foulkes, WMC},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.100.245142},
journal = {Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics},
title = {Efficient method for grand-canonical twist averaging in quantum Monte Carlo calculations},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.245142},
volume = {100},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We introduce a simple but efficient method for grand-canonical twistaveraging in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. By evaluating the thermodynamic grand potential instead of the ground state total energy, we greatly reduce the sampling errors caused by twist-dependent fluctuations in the particle number. We apply this method to the electron gas and to metallic lithium, aluminum, and solid atomic hydrogen. We show that, even when using a small number of twists, grand-canonical twist averaging of the grand potential produces better estimates of ground state energies than the widely used canonical twist-averaging approach.
AU  - Azadi,S
AU  - Foulkes,WMC
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.245142
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1098-0121
TI  - Efficient method for grand-canonical twist averaging in quantum Monte Carlo calculations
T2  - Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.245142
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06814v1
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/75606
VL  - 100
ER  -
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