Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) refers to a set of stochastic algorithms that evaluate quantitative properties of a quantum mechanical system, most typically the ground-state energy.
Random walk methods, most notably diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC), estimate the ground state by taking an ensemble of random walkers and propagating them in time so that the invariant distribution of walkers is the ground state. These algorithms generate correlated sequences of random walkers, often requiring many steps of the algorithm to obtain statistically independent samples. The average time step of GFMC can become small due to the singularities in the potential.
I will show that by explicitly accounting for the local Coulomb potential, one can achieve significantly larger mean time steps. The resulting algorithm will be applied to the Helium (He) and Hydrogen (H2) atoms, achieving high accuracy and good speedup.