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3. Quantum Monte Carlo methods
Subsections
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Monte Carlo methods
3.2.1 Monte Carlo integration
3.2.2 Importance sampling
3.2.3 The Metropolis algorithm
3.3 Variational Monte Carlo
3.3.1 The variational principle
3.3.2 Monte Carlo integration
3.3.3 The local energy
3.3.4 Trial wavefunctions
3.3.5 The VMC algorithm
3.4 Diffusion Monte Carlo
3.4.1 Outline of method
3.4.2 Importance sampling
3.4.3 Transformation to integral form
3.4.4 The fixed-node approximation
3.4.5 Improving the fixed-node energy
3.4.6 The DMC algorithm
3.5 Summary
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