Introduction - QMC and QMCPACK Summer School 2025 (1/7)

Описание: Quantum Monte Carlo and QMCPACK Summer School 2025 Introduction given by Paul Kent. Session 1 of 7. More details including presentation materials and example files are available at https://github.com/QMCPACK/qmc_summer...

00:00 Welcome
09:50 Schedule
14:10 Why Quantum Monte Carlo?
14:22 Electronic Structure problem
17:53 Key features of Quantum Monte Carlo
19:54 Recent applications
23:28 Computational costs
25:52 Systematic improvability
27:54 Many-body physics
29:04 Machine learning
32:03 Using the summer school virtual machine
34:05 Virtual box instructions for x86
38:30 UTM instructions for Apple Silicon
40:14 Alternatives for installing QMCPACK
43:37 Example water calculation
47:41 Things to do / Next steps