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辅助场量子Monte Carlo的定域轨道能量计算

A Localized-Orbital Energy Evaluation for Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo

John L. Weber, Hung Vuong, Pierre A. Devlaminck, James Shee, Joonho Lee, David R. Reichman, Richard A. Friesner

摘要:

无相辅助场量子蒙特卡罗(ph-AFQMC)最近出现了一个有前途的方法,用于生产的基准级模拟的中型到大型分子,由于其准确性和有利的多项式缩放系统的大小。不幸的是,标准能量评估算法的内存占用是不平凡的,这会显著影响内存有限的图形处理单元(GPU)上的时序。以前的尝试,以减少缩放的库仑积分的低秩结构的优势已经成功,但显着限制了高前置因子,使效用有限的非常大的系统。在这里,我们提出了一个互补的,立方缩放路线,以减少内存和计算缩放本地化轨道之间的库仑相互作用的低秩的基础上,专注于无相AFQMC的应用程序。我们表明,由于这种近似的误差,我们的术语本地化轨道AFQMC(LO-AFQMC),是系统的和可控的,通过一个单一的变量,是计算上有利的,即使是小系统。我们目前的结果表明,一个强大的保留的准确性与实验和完整的ph-AFQMC为本地化轨道为基础的方法,包括单重态-三重态间隙的多并苯通过并五苯,生成热的一组柏拉图式的烃笼,和二茂铁(Fe(Cp)$_2$)的总能量的各种测试情况下选择的潜在困难。最后,我们重现了我们以前的结果的气相电离能Ni(Cp)$_2$,同意与完整的ph-AFQMC内的统计误差,而使用不到十五分之一的计算机时间。

英文摘要:

Phaseless Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) has recently emerged as a promising method for the production of benchmark-level simulations of medium to large-sized molecules, due to its accuracy and favorable polynomial scaling with system size. Unfortunately the memory footprint of standard energy evaluation algorithms are non-trivial, which can significantly impact timings on graphical processing units (GPUs) where memory is limited. Previous attempts to reduce scaling by taking advantage of the low rank structure of the Coulombic integrals have been successful, but are significantly limited by high prefactors, rendering the utility limited to very large systems. Here, we present a complementary, cubic scaling route to reduce memory and computational scaling based on the low rank of the Coulombic interactions between localized orbitals, focusing on the application to phaseless AFQMC. We show that the error due to this approximation, which we term Localized Orbital AFQMC (LO-AFQMC), is systematic and controllable via a single variable, and is computationally favorable even for small systems. We present results demonstrating a robust retention of accuracy versus both experiment and full ph-AFQMC for a variety of test cases chosen for their potential difficulty for localized orbital based methods, including the singlet-triplet gaps of polyacenes benzene through pentacene, the heats of formation for a set of platonic hydrocarbon cages, and the total energy of ferrocene (Fe(Cp)$_2$). Finally, we reproduce our previous result of the gas phase ionization energy of Ni(Cp)$_2$, agreeing with full ph-AFQMC to within statistical error while using less than a fifteenth of the computer time.

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