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CASINO manual - Theory of Condensed Matter

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terms by definition, and it can be imposed on the electron–electron–nucleus backflow functions by<br />

using an appropriate set <strong>of</strong> constraints, which correspond to the ‘no-curl’ flag in the phi term in<br />

correlation.data. It is found that the ‘no-curl’ conditions do not give particularly good backflow<br />

functions; it has been left in casino as a means <strong>of</strong> drastically reducing the number <strong>of</strong> free parameters<br />

in cases where this is absolutely necessary.<br />

23.3 Improving the nodes <strong>of</strong> Ψ T<br />

casino’s implementation <strong>of</strong> backflow has the ability to improve the nodal surface <strong>of</strong> the trial wavefunction<br />

with respect to that <strong>of</strong> the SJ form. There is an additional computational expense in going<br />

from SJ to BF, which is a factor <strong>of</strong> ∼ 2 for the AE neon atom—based on the CPU time taken to<br />

achieve a given error bar in the mean energy—in both VMC and DMC; other systems may vary, but<br />

we expect backflow to be a reasonably efficient way <strong>of</strong> reducing the fixed-node error in most cases.<br />

Plot <strong>of</strong> the wave-function nodes <strong>of</strong> a water molecule, performed by moving an electron in the molecular plane<br />

(XY ) while keeping all others fixed in an arbitrary configuration (generated using HF-VMC).<br />

0.04<br />

0.02<br />

0<br />

-1 -0.5 0 0.5<br />

-0.02<br />

HF<br />

SJ<br />

BF<br />

-0.04<br />

-0.06<br />

Plot <strong>of</strong> the HF, SJ and BF wave-functions across a node in a water molecule, corresponding to moving (x, y)<br />

from (−1, −1) to (−1, 0.5) in the previous graph.<br />

It should be noticed, however, that the application <strong>of</strong> backflow has a greater effect on VMC than on<br />

DMC. For instance, BF-VMC applied on AE neon has been found to recover a 53% <strong>of</strong> the correlation<br />

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