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Pseudohamiltonians and Quantum Monte Carlo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1992

A. Bosin
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, ITALY
V. Fiorentini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, ITALY Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, W-l Berlin 33, GERMANY
A. Lastri
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, 38050 Povo (TN), ITALY
G. B. Bachelet
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00185 Roma, ITALY
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Abstract

A new method is presented for the generation of valence-only local hamiltonians, or pseudohamiltonians, within the DFT-LDA framework. At the moment these promise to be very useful tools to overcome the problem of eliminating the core electrons from many QMC calculations.

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Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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