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arXiv 1809.09771physics.chem-phcond-mat.mtrl-sci
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量子Monte Carlo方法精确预测偶极负离子的电子Binding Energies

Accurate Predictions of Electron Binding Energies of Dipole-Bound Anions via Quantum Monte Carlo Methods

Hongxia Hao, James Shee, Shiv Upadhyay, Can Ataca, Kenneth D. Jordan, Brenda M. Rubenstein

摘要:

具有足够大的偶极矩的中性分子可以将电子束缚在扩散的非价轨道上,其中大部分电荷密度远离原子核,形成所谓的偶极束缚阴离子。由于长程相关效应在过量电子的结合中起着重要作用,并且总体结合能通常仅为波数的10- 100的量级,因此预测性地建模偶极结合阴离子仍然是一个挑战。在这里,我们证明了量子蒙特卡罗方法可以准确地表征分子偶极束缚阴离子与近阈值的偶极矩。我们还表明,相关采样辅助场量子蒙特卡罗是特别适合解决的中性和阴离子物种之间的能量差异。这些结果揭示了量子蒙特卡罗方法的基本局限性,并为使用它们研究弱束缚物种铺平了道路,这些物种太大,无法使用传统的电子结构方法进行建模。

英文摘要:

Neutral molecules with sufficiently large dipole moments can bind electrons in diffuse nonvalence orbitals with most of their charge density far from the nuclei, forming so-called dipole-bound anions. Because long-range correlation effects play an important role in the binding of an excess electron and overall binding energies are often only of the order of 10-100s of wave numbers, predictively modeling dipole-bound anions remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate that quantum Monte Carlo methods can accurately characterize molecular dipole-bound anions with near threshold dipole moments. We also show that correlated sampling Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo is particularly well-suited for resolving the fine energy differences between the neutral and anionic species. These results shed light on the fundamental limitations of quantum Monte Carlo methods and pave the way toward using them for the study of weakly-bound species that are too large to model using traditional electron structure methods.

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