Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC): The basics (60' lecture)

Claudia Filippi

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Topics

• Diffusion Monte Carlo
  • Trotter's theorem and short-time approximation
  • Simple DMC as a branching random walk
  • Population control
• Importance sampling
  • Drift-diffusion-branching Green's function

Comments

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