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A simple and efficient route towards improved energetics within the framework of density-corrected density functional theory
The crucial step in density-corrected Hartree-Fock density functional theory
(DC(HF)-DFT) is to decide whether the density produced by the density
functional for a specific calculation is erroneous and hence should be replaced
by, in this case, the HF density. We introduce an indicator, based on the
difference in non-interacting kinetic energies between DFT and HF calculations,
to determine when the HF density is the better option. Our kinetic energy
indicator directly compares the self-consistent density of the analysed
functional with the HF density, is size-intensive, reliable, and most
importantly highly efficient. Moreover, we present a procedure that makes best
use of the computed quantities necessary for DC(HF)-DFT by additionally
evaluating a related hybrid functional and, in that way, not only "corrects"
the density but also the functional itself; we call that procedure corrected
Hartree-Fock density functional theory (C(HF)-DFT)
Optimised Baranyai partitioning of the second quantised Hamiltonian
Simultaneous measurement of multiple Pauli strings (tensor products of Pauli
matrices) is the basis for efficient measurement of observables on quantum
computers by partitioning the observable into commuting sets of Pauli strings.
We present the implementation and optimisation of the Baranyai grouping method
for second quantised Hamiltonian partitioning in molecules up to CH
(cc-pVDZ, 68 qubits) and efficient construction of the diagonalisation circuit
in quantum gates, compared to , where is the number of
qubits. We show that this method naturally handles sparsity in the Hamiltonian
and produces a number of groups for linearly scaling Hamiltonians, such
as those formed by molecules in a line; rising to for fully connected
two-body Hamiltonians. While this is more measurements than some other schemes
it allows for the flexibility to move Pauli strings and optimise the variance.
We also present an explicit optimisation for spin-symmetry which reduces the
number of groups by a factor of , without extra computational effort
Diagrammatic Coupled Cluster Monte Carlo
We propose a modified coupled cluster Monte Carlo algorithm that
stochastically samples connected terms within the truncated
Baker--Campbell--Hausdorff expansion of the similarity transformed Hamiltonian
by construction of coupled cluster diagrams on the fly. Our new approach --
diagCCMC -- allows propagation to be performed using only the connected
components of the similarity-transformed Hamiltonian, greatly reducing the
memory cost associated with the stochastic solution of the coupled cluster
equations. We show that for perfectly local, noninteracting systems, diagCCMC
is able to represent the coupled cluster wavefunction with a memory cost that
scales linearly with system size. The favorable memory cost is observed with
the only assumption of fixed stochastic granularity and is valid for arbitrary
levels of coupled cluster theory. Significant reduction in memory cost is also
shown to smoothly appear with dissociation of a finite chain of helium atoms.
This approach is also shown not to break down in the presence of strong
correlation through the example of a stretched nitrogen molecule. Our novel
methodology moves the theoretical basis of coupled cluster Monte Carlo closer
to deterministic approaches.Comment: 31 pages, 6 figure
A hybrid stochastic configuration interaction-coupled cluster approach for multireference systems
The development of multireference coupled cluster (MRCC) techniques has
remained an open area of study in electronic structure theory for decades due
to the inherent complexity of expressing a multi-configurational wavefunction
in the fundamentally single-reference coupled cluster framework. The recently
developed multireference coupled cluster Monte Carlo (mrCCMC) technique uses
the formal simplicity of the Monte Carlo approach to Hilbert space quantum
chemistry to avoid some of the complexities of conventional MRCC, but there is
room for improvement in terms of accuracy and, particularly, computational
cost. In this paper we explore the potential of incorporating ideas from
conventional MRCC - namely the treatment of the strongly correlated space in a
configuration interaction formalism - to the mrCCMC framework, leading to a
series of methods with increasing relaxation of the reference space in the
presence of external amplitudes. These techniques offer new balances of
stability and cost against accuracy, as well as a means to better explore and
better understand the structure of solutions to the mrCCMC equations.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, 3 table
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