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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 143, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4930137
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- PRACE-3IP project [FP7 RI-312763]
- European Research Council (ERC)
- Carnegie Institution of Washington
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We report an accurate study of interactions between benzene molecules using variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) methods. We compare these results with density functional theory using different van derWaals functionals. In our quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations, we use accurate correlated trial wave functions including three-body Jastrow factors and backflow transformations. We consider two benzene molecules in the parallel displaced geometry, and find that by highly optimizing the wave function and introducing more dynamical correlation into the wave function, we compute the weak chemical binding energy between aromatic rings accurately. We find optimal VMC and DMC binding energies of -2.3(4) and -2.7(3) kcal/mol, respectively. The best estimate of the coupled-cluster theory through perturbative triplets/complete basis set limit is -2.65(2) kcal/mol [Miliordos et al., J. Phys. Chem. A 118, 7568 (2014)]. Our results indicate that QMC methods give chemical accuracy for weakly bound van derWaals molecular interactions, comparable to results from the best quantum chemistry methods. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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