title: Noncovalent Interactions by Quantum Monte Carlo.
abstract: Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a family of stochastic methods for solving quantum many-body problems such as the stationary Schrödinger equation. The review introduces basic notions of electronic structure QMC based on random walks in real space as well as its advances and adaptations to systems with noncovalent interactions. Specific issues such as fixed-node error cancellation, construction of trial wave functions, and efficiency considerations that allow for benchmark quality QMC energy differences are described in detail. Comprehensive overview of articles covers QMC applications to systems with noncovalent interactions over the last three decades. The current status of QMC with regard to efficiency, applicability, and usability by nonexperts together with further considerations about QMC developments, limitations, and unsolved challenges are discussed as well.
authors.affiliation: Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc , tř. 17 listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Matúš
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dubecký
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and CHiPS, North Carolina State University , Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States.
authors.forename: Lubos
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mitas
authors.affiliation: Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc , tř. 17 listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jurečka