Scheme for adding electronnucleus cusps to Gaussian orbitals
J. Chem. Phys. 122, 224322 (2005); doi:10.1063/1.1940588
Published 16 June 2005
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A simple scheme is described for introducing the correct cusps at nuclei into orbitals obtained from Gaussian basis set electronic structure calculations. The scheme is tested with all-electron variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) methods for the Ne atom, the H2 molecule, and 55 molecules from a standard benchmark set. It greatly reduces the variance of the local energy in all cases and slightly improves the variational energy. This scheme yields a general improvement in the efficiency of all-electron VMC and DMC calculations using Gaussian basis sets.
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| History: | Received 17 January 2005; accepted 2 May 2005; published 16 June 2005 |
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