Variational Monte Carlo (VMC)

Layer 1 — Physicsin the Computational Physics subtree

Stochastic minimisation of ⟨ψ_T|H|ψ_T⟩/⟨ψ_T|ψ_T⟩ over a trial wavefunction's parameters using Metropolis sampling. Benchmarks for strongly-correlated electron systems.

Related concepts

Explore Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) on the interactive knowledge graph →