The uniform electron gas at warm dense matter conditions

T Dornheim, S Groth, M Bonitz - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Motivated by the current high interest in the field of warm dense matter research, in this
article we review the uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature and over a broad …

The properties of hydrogen and helium under extreme conditions

JM McMahon, MA Morales, C Pierleoni… - Reviews of modern …, 2012 - APS
Hydrogen and helium are the most abundant elements in the Universe. They are also, in
principle, the most simple. Nonetheless, they display remarkable properties under extreme …

Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen

RP Dias, IF Silvera - Science, 2017 - science.org
Producing metallic hydrogen has been a great challenge in condensed matter physics.
Metallic hydrogen may be a room-temperature superconductor and metastable when the …

Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations with the CASINO code

RJ Needs, MD Towler, ND Drummond… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We present an overview of the variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods as
implemented in the casino program. We particularly focus on developments made in the last …

Quantum Monte Carlo and related approaches

BM Austin, DY Zubarev, WA Lester Jr - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
As the name implies, Monte Carlo (MC) methods employ random numbers to solve
problems. The range of problems that may be treated by MC is substantial; these include …

Conductive dense hydrogen

MI Eremets, IA Troyan - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
Molecular hydrogen is expected to exhibit metallic properties under megabar pressures.
This metal is predicted to be superconducting with a very high critical temperature, T c, of …

Evidence for a first-order liquid-liquid transition in high-pressure hydrogen from ab initio simulations

MA Morales, C Pierleoni… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Using quantum simulation techniques based on either density functional theory or quantum
Monte Carlo, we find clear evidence of a first-order transition in liquid hydrogen, between a …

Accurate quantum Monte Carlo forces for machine-learned force fields: Ethanol as a benchmark

E Slootman, I Poltavsky, R Shinde… - Journal of chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a powerful method to calculate accurate energies and
forces for molecular systems. In this work, we demonstrate how we can obtain accurate QMC …

Challenges in modeling materials properties without experimental input

EA Carter - Science, 2008 - science.org
Simulations of materials behavior are an important component of materials science
research, partly because measurements are indirect, requiring theoretical interpretation, and …

Noncovalent interactions by quantum Monte Carlo

M Dubecky, L Mitas, P Jurecka - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a family of stochastic methods for solving quantum many-
body problems such as the stationary Schrödinger equation. The review introduces basic …