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Quantum Monte Carlo ground state energies for the atoms Li through Ar
E Buendía1, F J Gálvez, P Maldonado
1Departamento de Física Atómica Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain.
Abstract:
All-electron quantum Monte Carlo energies are reported for the ground state of the atoms Li to Ar. The present work is mainly focused on the atoms Na to Ar as well as in those that have a stronger multiconfiguration nature, i.e., Be, B, and C and Mg, Al, and Si. Explicitly correlated wave functions with a single configuration model function times a Jastrow factor are employed for all of the atoms studied. The accuracy obtained for the atoms Na to Ar is similar to that reached for the atoms Li to Ne. In addition, a restricted multiconfiguration expansion has been employed for the atoms Be, B, and C and Mg, Al, and Si obtaining accurate results. Near degeneracy and the effect of other configurations are systematically analyzed for these systems, at both variational and diffusion Monte Carlo levels.
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