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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 99, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.030403
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An intrinsic measure of the quality of a variational wave function is given by its overlap with the ground state of the system. We derive a general formula to compute this overlap when quantum dynamics in imaginary time is accessible. The overlap is simply related to the area under the E(tau) curve, i.e., the energy as a function of imaginary time. This has important applications to, for example, quantum Monte Carlo simulations where the overlap becomes as a simple by-product of routine simulations. As a result, we find that the practical definition of a good variational wave function for quantum Monte Carlo simulations, i.e., fast convergence to the ground state, is equivalent to a good overlap with the actual ground state of the system.
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