Bird's eye view on Variational MC

The basic procedure of a Variational Monte Carlo calculations consists thus of

1. Construct first a trial wave function $\psi_T(\boldsymbol{R};\boldsymbol{\alpha})$, for a many-body system consisting of $n$ particles located at positions $\boldsymbol{R}=(\boldsymbol{R}_1,\dots ,\boldsymbol{R}_n)$. The trial wave function depends on $\alpha$ variational parameters $\boldsymbol{\alpha}=(\alpha_1,\dots ,\alpha_M)$.
2. Then we evaluate the expectation value of the hamiltonian $H$

$$\overline{E}[\boldsymbol{\alpha}]=\frac{\int d\boldsymbol{R}\Psi^{\ast}_{T}(\boldsymbol{R},\boldsymbol{\alpha})H(\boldsymbol{R})\Psi_{T}(\boldsymbol{R},\boldsymbol{\alpha})} {\int d\boldsymbol{R}\Psi^{\ast}_{T}(\boldsymbol{R},\boldsymbol{\alpha})\Psi_{T}(\boldsymbol{R},\boldsymbol{\alpha})}.$$

1. Thereafter we vary $\boldsymbol{\alpha}$ according to some minimization algorithm and return eventually to the first step if we are not satisfied with the results.

Here we have used the notation $\overline{E}$ to label the expectation value of the energy.

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