Quantum Monte Carlo simulations on ten thousand to a million cores

Lead Research Organisation: University College London
Department Name: Earth Sciences

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Publications

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Chen J (2016) Evidence for stable square ice from quantum Monte Carlo in Physical Review B

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Gillan MJ (2013) First-principles energetics of water clusters and ice: a many-body analysis. in The Journal of chemical physics

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Gillan MJ (2016) Perspective: How good is DFT for water? in The Journal of chemical physics

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Karalti O (2012) Adsorption of a water molecule on the MgO(100) surface as described by cluster and slab models. in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

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Quigley D (2014) Communication: On the stability of ice 0, ice i, and I(h). in The Journal of chemical physics

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Raza Z (2011) Proton ordering in cubic ice and hexagonal ice; a potential new ice phase--XIc. in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

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Santra Biswajit (2014) Accuracy of van der Waals inclusive DFT functionals for ice at ambient and high pressures in ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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Zen A (2016) Toward Accurate Adsorption Energetics on Clay Surfaces. in The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces

 
Description They have facilitated the use of specific QMC computer codes, and the improved efficiency has reduced the amount of computer power required per unit of science produced.
First Year Of Impact 2014
Sector Other
Impact Types Cultural

 
Title PHON - A program to calculate phonons using the small displacement method 
Description I am not entirely sure if this is relevant, but here it is. The PHON code is a computer software that is used to compute vibrational frequencies of materials, and with them also compute their thermodynamic properties. The programme is freely available from my personal web-page, and also from Github and from the Computer Physics Communications website. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2009 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact PHON is used by hundreds of groups worldwide, and the describing paper (Computer Physics Communication 180, 2622-2633 (2009)) has been already cited more than 400 times. I am associating this product with all my grants as I have been developing this code over the years, and so all my grants have contributed to sustain this development. 
URL http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbdxa/phon/
 
Title CASINO 2.12 
Description New software release with better scaling to large number of processors 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2013 
Impact N/A