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CASINO manual - Theory of Condensed Matter

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Contents<br />

1 Introduction 1<br />

2 The quantum Monte Carlo method 2<br />

3 Miscellaneous issues 2<br />

3.1 Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

3.2 Legal stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

3.3 Getting the latest version <strong>of</strong> the code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

4 Functionality <strong>of</strong> <strong>CASINO</strong> 3<br />

5 Installation 5<br />

5.1 Detailed instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

5.2 The <strong>CASINO</strong> ARCH system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

5.3 Further installation notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

5.4 Discussion forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

6 Introductory user’s guide: how to use <strong>CASINO</strong> 11<br />

6.1 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

6.2 How to do a VMC calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />

6.3 Wave function optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

6.4 How to do a DMC calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

6.5 How to perform QMC calculations for periodic systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

6.6 How to run the code: RUNQMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

6.7 How to run coupled DFT-DMC molecular dynamics calculations: the runqmcmd script 29<br />

7 Files used by <strong>CASINO</strong> 31<br />

7.1 Complete list <strong>of</strong> the input files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

7.2 Complete list <strong>of</strong> the output files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

7.3 Basic input file: input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

7.4 Optimizable-parameter file: correlation.data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58<br />

7.5 Pseudopotential file: xx pp.data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />

7.6 MPC-interaction file: mpc.data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />

7.7 CASL files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />

7.8 Orbital files: awfn.data, bwfn.data, dwfn.data, gwfn.data, pwfn.data and<br />

stowfn.data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

7.9 External-potential file: expot.data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87<br />

7.10 Raw QMC data files: vmc.hist and dmc.hist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

7.11 Expectation-value file: expval.data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br />

8 Generating <strong>CASINO</strong> trial wave functions with other programs 100<br />

8.1 ABINIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

8.2 ADF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

8.3 CASTEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

8.4 CRYSTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />

8.5 GAMESS-US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

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